Category Procurement Manager PP Films

Department:
Procurement

Full-time or Part-time:
Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an ever changing world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come.

And we invest in our world‑class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

• Contribute to the development of the overall purchasing strategy and translate the purchasing strategy in concrete action plans
• Work closely with key stakeholders to develop and implement effective sourcing strategies for the category / supplier in order to ensure quality of services and significant cost reductions
• Ensure that the needs of the Sites are effectively represented in the Purchasing Strategies and to achieve this must work closely with the Cluster and Site Management

• Control and optimize resources to meet objectives and deliver agreed results while working closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure that sourcing strategies are implemented and function well
• Track and report savings, monitor TCO improvement as well as working capital improvement using the tracking tools in place
• Assess and manage risks across the Purchasing category while developing and contributing to a risk strategy for the category together with mitigating actions
• Manage the supplier base across the category area, leverage Category spend globally and drive & implement best practices and cost reduction initiatives for the EMEA business
• Monitor integration of Purchasing in core business processes
• Follow the set standards with respect to Purchasing and ensure consistency with the Amcor requirements and standards
• Support the development of the Purchasing policy in providing feedback and advice to the Group Procurement Director and the Procurement Excellence Team
• Identify trends and/or issues that need improvement within the category accounts, identify the Purchasing gaps and use Market knowledge gained through industry analysis, supplier analysis and competitive analyses

• Enhance the relationship with suppliers in an innovative way to realize cost saving potentials
• Manages negotiation process, content and results in leading the negotiation team to define the desired outcome of a negotiation
• Use Amcor negotiations techniques and tools to prepare and monitor process (ANP)
• Build strong relationships with key material provider in order to negotiate more interesting contractual agreements and service levels
• Regularly review and monitor contract realisation and delivery
• Identify and resolve issues or escalates if required
• Ensure transparency in carrying out execution purchasing procedure

• Identify stakeholders; understand, interpret their current and future needs and manage their expectations
• Build very good rapport with suppliers and obtain access to senior leadership team
• Collaborate strongly with relevant departments to ensure understanding and compliance with key purchasing strategies
• Create, maintain, enhance professional networks
• Contribute towards Purchasing excellence and customer satisfaction
• Develop budgets and targets based on aggressive, well‑founded, realistic, forward oriented goals
• Ensure that financial resource allocation is cost effective and aligned with…