Procurement strategy specialist
we are seeking a highly motivated procurement strategy specialist to drive business value through procurement excellence.
about us:
our company is a vibrant global community of visionaries, doers, and makers serving people in over 50 countries. Our family of personal care brands is dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.
key responsibilities:
* analyze spend and material portfolios to bring actionable insights to category teams enabling their strategies and sourcing decisions.
* support the manager in reporting needed for ethical and responsible sourcing.
* liaise closely with procurement category managers globally across multiple geographies and work cultures to understand process bottlenecks related to sap price management and support/lead efforts for process improvements.
* create and maintain process documentation to support procurement pricelist maintenance and best practices.
* develop structured pricelists/templates for future updates – develop macros to facilitate periodic price updates.
* support broader procurement organization by maintaining accurate pricing in system – admin of programs to mass update info records and purchase orders ensuring correct prices.
* understand impact of commodity trends on prices and help team challenge price change requests.
* ensure data cleanliness of purchasing info records (pirs) and source lists – monitoring reports to appropriately block old info and create new where needed.
* checking and updating specific information on pirs, including minimum order quantity (moq), country of origin, lead time, validity date, etc.
* automate repetitive analysis, tasks and processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
* collaborate with team members to identify areas for automation and implementing solutions.
* leverage data, analytics, specifications, complexity and benchmarking to identify opportunities.
* connect system analytics and draw insights for spend, specifications, spend per sku, specs per family etc.
* build and maintain saving tracker reports.
* support development of tools, process and dashboard/scorecard reporting globally and regionally to report ppv (purchase price variance), cip (cost improvement project), abp (annual budget planning) etc.
* create reports and updating current reports for the procurement team to utilize and help drive insights into categories to support their strategies.
requirements:
* bachelor's degree in business or other related field.
* 3-5 years of experience in a business function such as finance, business analytics, procurement operations or related field.
* highly self-motivated with ability to drive change in a global organization with minimum supervision.
* strong excel and database manipulation skills with ability to create moderate to complex formulas.
* excellent powerpoint skills, ability to present to all levels of organization, including senior leadership.
* demonstrated knowledge of relevant technology systems including erp, sap, e-procurement, spend analysis, and contract management.
* champions best practice processes, tools, and commitment to provide quality procurement products/customer service.
* analytical curiosity: comfortable with and enjoys working in detailed data; logical, creative, puzzle-solving mentality.
* influence: develop credibility and ability to sell recommendations at all levels of organization; deliver objective, data-driven solutions with appropriate business perspective communicated in concise and understandable fashion.
* team leadership: ability to organize & guide project teams to deliver process improvements.
* critical thinking: ability to explore & evaluate broad potential solution sets and provide objective data-driven recommendations.
* collaboration: ability to identify stakeholders and create win-win situations with other functions; ability to work well with diverse, cross-functional stakeholders and team members.
* ability to travel periodically (less than 20%).
preferred skills and experience:
* experience with sap transactions and reporting.
* experience with building dashboards and reporting in powerbi.
* experience with process development, improvement, and training.
working relationships:
* reports to manager, global procurement coe.
* key relationships internally will include procurement leadership team and procurement category managers, global supply chain, finance, legal, research and development, sales, and commercial. External engagement, although limited but would include external service providers supporting global procurement and other functions.
work environment:
* hybrid – typically 2 days a week in mx city office, 3 days a week work from home.
* ability to travel periodically (10-20%).
* may be required to work non-core hours based on global department structure.
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