- Leading Team of Procurement Specialist and/or Category Specialists
- Coach, guide and mentor direct and indirect reports
- Establish key team objectives in support of Nestlé cascading measures.
- Drive team to implement Ways of Winning-Speed, Agility, Collaboration and Courage, into daily scope of work.
- Cultivate a dynamic environment that provides employee engagement in decision space, understanding of company direction and positive team atmosphere.
- Talent and Performance Management System Development (Personal Development Guide, Performance Evaluation, Engagement Check-in and 360 Assessments).
- Drive implementation of cost savings projects to enable the business priority of reduction in total delivered cost. Ensure alignment of project status between business partner team and finance teams.
- Support cost reduction initiative with suppliers within category by understanding supply chain needs and application
- Financial acumen and understand working capital, PPV etc.
- Lead the procurement relationship with factories, and serve as first point of contact for suppliers and business partners for potential supply issues.
- Problem solve locally and advance to global buyer as necessary.
- Manage and implement supplier facing supply chain initiatives for assigned categories.
- Facilitate supplier quality probation process and manage supplier claims within market.
- Analyze, understand, and share market requirements and challenges for ingredient and/or packaging materials; including priorities and key value drivers for each category.
- Develop expertise for local market requirements and align with the global category team to enable strategic planning; including specifications, transportation needs, new material set-up, vendor onboarding, as well as any other market conditions.
- Identify and approve local market volume requirements to the global category and finance teams through applicable processes and systems.
- Research and analyze current quality/procure-to-pay issues and communicate market reality with global category and local business partner teams.
- Analyze data (e.g. financial, volume, P.O. activity, etc.) and glean insights in order to develop recommendation for Budget, Price Forecasting and other financial activities for Procurement Finance and Business Units
- Collaborate with above-market category teams and advise on current local pricing requirements and any changes to budget volumes
- Prepare commentary on evolution of category and share with business partners.
- Lead implementation of global team’s sourcing strategies at category level in market
- Collaborate with business units to align and secure category sourcing strategy approvals across functional leadership.
- Partner with business stakeholders to ensure approval of supplier selection and communicate award decision to those affected.
- Identify necessary activities and resources needed to achieve implementation of chosen sourcing strategies
- Other duties as assigned (i.e. supplier relationship management, contract management, engaging with global centers of scale (NGBS), etc).
SUPPLY CHAIN at NESTLE:
At Nestlé USA, our Supply Chain team is driven by the desire to deliver world-class service and support to our trusted retail partners! Inspired by our company’s four key Ways of Winning – Speed, Agility, Collaboration, and Courage, Nestlé’s Supply Chain professionals strive to efficiently and effectively distribute our products “wherever and whenever” needed while fulfilling our commitments and delivering outstanding value to our customers.
Position summary:
Responsible for leading and developing a team of Procurement Specialists and/or Category Support Specialists Additionally responsible for managing the procurement relationship for a specific category with key stakeholders.
Primary responsibilities:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Logistics/Transportation or other applicable discipline required
- Minimum 5 years sourcing, purchasing and/or material management, and/or technical/manufacturing experience
- Strong negotiation and persuasion skills
- SAP, Ariba, experience preferred
- Previous management experience preferred
- Required proficiency in Microsoft Suite products, including but not limited to, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Candidate must be detail oriented and a self-starter
- Strong leadership skills needed to develop team and shape organization
- Proven ability to analyze and present findings in a clear and cohesive manner
- Capable of navigating through ambiguous situations and managing relationships
- Strong communication skills need to liaise between the internal customers and the global procurement team
- Ability to work collaboratively and support multiple sourcing initiatives
- Ability to develop processes and/or to identify continuous improvements to help better coordinate activities
- Maintain a high level of internal/external business acumen to mark trends and their impact on the business
- Candidate will be tireless in follow-up on issues, will be detailed and diligent, perform root cause analysis and will appropriately escalate issues as necessary
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Job Procurement
Primary LocationUS-VA-Arlington-Arlington
Organization Nestle USA
Schedule Full-time
Unposting Date Ongoing
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