Procurement Category Manager, Fragrances and Flavors

2 weeks ago

Alpharetta, United States The Clorox Company Full time
About the Role

The Clorox Company is seeking a skilled Procurement Category Manager to lead the Fragrances and Flavors category. This role will be responsible for creating, capturing, and protecting value for the company through strategic management of the category.

Key Responsibilities
  • Craft and drive procurement strategies for the Fragrances and Flavors raw material category across brands and geographies to focus on Cost, Supply Robustness, Innovation, and Sustainability.
  • Identify and execute projects to improve value delivery across the spend portfolio.
  • Manage strategic relationships with suppliers by discovering and providing insights on how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities to meet business needs.
  • Uncover continuous improvement opportunities to advance the category such as design to value, cost models, and process mapping and by monitoring market dynamics, supplier competitive landscape, and category pricing/costing strategy.
  • Partner with R&D to ensure the needs and wants of the business are reflected in the category strategies and implemented as planned.
  • Support actions required to address operational issues.
Requirements
  • 5+ years of procurement experience in a global, matrixed environment successfully leading strategic procurement work for direct/raw materials category management, particularly fragrances, flavors, or herbs/spices/essential oils.
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferably Business, Economics, Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Biology, Food Science, Sensory Science, or related fields.
  • Experience providing recommendations and updates to and interacting with senior leadership both internal and external to Clorox.
  • Experience with Sourcing/Procurement tools and methodologies, including RFPs, Category Strategy development, Cost Models/Should Cost/Clean Sheet, Negotiations, and Contracts.
  • Experience operating in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) or FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry experience.
  • Leadership – Demonstrated experience driving positive results through teams in a challenging and fast-paced environment. Assertive and diplomatic, self-directed, able to manage up and down the organization effectively, and willing to hold self and others accountable. Ability to drive change and breakthrough performance improvement across a team. Sets or influences direction beyond own area of responsibility. Drives performance improvement across company.
  • Commercial acumen – Ability to leverage procurement tools to deliver financial results.
  • Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving – Sorts through complex issues and proposes path to solution. Integrates information from different sources and can evaluate, interpret, and communicate it properly. Strong data analysis skills. Comfortable drawing conclusions and making recommendations with ambiguous or incomplete data.
  • Initiative – Identifies opportunities and drives to resolution. Sets high standards of performance for self and others. Self-starter, eager to drive improvement and change. Seeks out opportunities to learn about developments in industries and markets within area of opportunity.
  • Collaboration/Responsiveness – Enjoys and thrives working with others. Able to respond promptly to urgencies. Values diversity of thought. Incorporates others' ideas into decision making.
  • Communication – Excellent English verbal and written skills with ability to craft message to fit intended audience at all levels both within and external to Clorox. Experience managing and strategically influencing stakeholders and driving accountability.
  • Agreement Negotiation – Able to understand and negotiate supplier agreements (e.g. Supply, Non-Disclosure, and Technical Services).
  • Systems – Strong knowledge of MS Office, particularly Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and MRP systems (SAP preferred).
  • Travel – ability to travel up to 25%.

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