Category Manager PET

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.

To manage NA PET resins, spend through the development, implementation, and management of an advantaged category strategy, in alignment with the Amcor Group Gmbh (AGG) strategy, BU's business plans, and the dynamic competitive environment.

Amcor practices the 'Value Chain Initiative' model for Direct Material negotiations and sourcing is lead and executed through AGG in Zurich, Switzerland.

• Manage development of the North America PET Category Strategy through a collaborative, cross functional approach with the regional stakeholders
• Drive sustainability agenda and implementation of recycled content targets through complex sourcing mix of PCR strategic partnerships, M&A activity, preform and virgin material sourcing
• Provide fact-based analysis to support targeted competitive market positioning
• Demonstrate alignment to AGG business strategy especially in the area of sustainability through PCR usage objectives and GHG emission reductions
• Identify and build strategic partnerships with suppliers whose capabilities and strategy are aligned/complementary to the AGG PET Category Strategy and BU's business plans
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with the selected strategy to assure business continuity and sustained value delivery
• Define and deliver tactical execution plan in support of the defined strategy timing and objectives
• PET Commodity Performance Management
• Finance:
  Collaborate with Business Units (BU) to drive and manage the NA PET buy-sell financials as part of the ARP financial reporting system
• Value Creation:
  Manage, through cross functional engagement, the Procure Plus value delivery to targets and BU expectations as part of value creation operating model
• Supplier Performance:
  Manage, along with Quality and Operations leadership NA performance for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Risk Management as part of the supplier management process
• Category Expertise:
  Continue to develop and sharpen category capabilities to drive sustainable value creation and competitive advantage to BUs and Amcor overall
• Collaborate with AGG resins team to support AGG led negotiations and sourcing to ensure deliverables are aligned with the Global Strategy, BU's Business Plans and Sourcing Execution
• Identify qualifications aligned with category strategy, to capture opportunities, mitigate risk and strengthen competitiveness as well as manage the qualifications with functional stakeholders
• Manage regional volume weighted price point through dynamic price tracking and sourcing of relevant spec resin where applicable
• Recover ARP incurred costs associated with supplier incidents (VIN's)
• Support the regional commercial business development with pricing in support of new business

• Minimum 5 years of direct materials category management experience (preferably in related category/industry) with demonstrated results
• Education and Certifications
  • Required:
    
    University degree in a relevant discipline
• Job Specific
  
  Skills and Abilities
  • Demonstrated success working within a disciplined operating system
  • Strong organizational and…