Executive Manager – Indirect Procurement

Executive Manager – Indirect Procurement (A&CP - Marketing, Business Services & Industrial)

Coty is one of the world’s largest beauty companies, with an iconic portfolio of fragrance, color cosmetics, skin care, and body care brands.

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Role: Executive Manager – Indirect Procurement (A&CP - Marketing, Business Services & Industrial)

Overview

Laeds the category strategy development process within category teams, to develop appropriate and innovative TCO-based strategies. Monitors progress of strategies and changing business environment, and ensures systems, policies and procedure adherence.

Responsibilities

• Leads the category strategy development process within category teams, to develop appropriate and innovative TCO-based strategies.
• Reviews the overall effectiveness of strategies and identifies further opportunities / makes improvements.
• Articulates the category vision and road to improvement to all stakeholders in clear, inspiring terms and builds and enhances cross functional/multi-disciplinary team working.
• Obtains sign-off for all category strategies within area of responsibility.
• Monitors progress of strategies and changing business environment.
• Monitors progress of numbers and targets and support the team
• Ensures that LATAM sourcing practices and processes conform to overall procurement policies
• Ensure systems, policies and procedure adherence.
• Ensures that Business Needs are being attended
• Facilitates category team liaison with internal stakeholders, category owners and suppliers, to set up product testing and evaluation.
• Ensures strong buy-in and Influences decisions to help implement and sustain initiatives.
• Lead cost reduction programmes
• Track improvements over time, monitors execution and modifies plan where appropriate to keep teams implementation pace
• Ensures good governance in all aspects of category management and contracts management
• Purchase orders approval

Stakeholder relationship management

• Guide and challenge strategies for negotiations with suppliers
• Manage relationship with suppliers at top level of supplier organization.
• Aligning Strategy with your pair Managers
• Facilitates communication and information flow between end-users and the supply market.
• Manage priorities and provides guidance to the team
• Supports the collaboration of subordinate staff / category teams with other procurement areas on strategic categories.
• Ensure systems, policies and procedures adherence.
• Secures resources suitable and sufficient to support business objectives for the category team
• Provides direction to the category teams and manages category team performance through individual performance contracting and review.
• Ensures effective communication within and to the category teams and promote a positive working environment.
• Enhances team credibility through effective and efficient service delivery and resolution of issues.
• Identify training and knowledge gaps within the team and arranges for the necessary inputs.
• Responsible to manage intern activities and development.

Requirements & Skills

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Strategic Sourcing;
• Cost management and TCO expertise;
• University Graduated
• Advanced English level;
• Advanced Spanish level;
• Advanced user of Microsoft Office Excel
• Domain of negotiation techniques, SRM and Strategic Sourcing
• Strong knowledge of Market and main suppliers of Category
• Leadership skills to plays a mentorship and coaching roles

Advanced requirements (nice to have)

• MBA Degree

Behavior Skills

• Leadership to drive and inspire the team to excellent results
• Strategic thinking
• Proactively seek improvements. Be a solution provider;
• Maintain a healthy leadership and attitude under pressure
• Strategic skills and critical sense to challenge the status quo
• Focus on lead the business in a profitable and sustainable manner;

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Purchasing, Project Management, and Business Development
• Industries: Personal Care Product Manufacturing

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