Purchasing Manager

Purchasing Manager

Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a North American headquarters located in Philadelphia, PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company with a purpose to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers, patients, care givers, and customers across the globe. We do this through innovations in our Professional Hygiene, Consumer Goods, and Health & Medical business units that provide hygiene and health solutions to over a billion people every day worldwide.

The Essity Global Procurement Group is currently seeking a Procurement (Purchasing) Manager for our Central Region consisting of two manufacturing plants in Middletown (OH) and Harrodsburg (KY). This position will be based in our Harrodsburg facility.

Incumbent is responsible for the coordination, organization, leadership, and negotiation of regional/site procurement agreements with strategically chosen vendors that provide maximum value and benefit for the region/site in a manner that supports the philosophies and business practices of the Essity Procurement strategy.

We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace.

• High degree of understanding of region’s required commodities and appropriate vendors and their offerings, maintaining organized records of commodities, agreements, vendors and their performance, and their primary stakeholders at each Essity site.

• Education and execution of Purchasing processes and systems for the assigned Region and Site(s) and its procurement personnel. This includes operational effectiveness, general understanding/application of business procurement law including using approved forms/templates, and appropriate internal controls for processes including requisitioning, vendor negotiations, bidding, PO/commitments, receiving PO exceptions, and Accounts Payable PO exceptions.

• Lead, train, and optimize procurement personnel at the assigned region’s sites.

• Effective high impact collaborator, working between Regional/Site Operations, Corporate Procurement, and Regional Finance to implement and oversee appropriate Procurement Processes at the Region/Site. The incumbent would create and lead cross‑functional teams as a regular part of this position function.

• Strong positive impact on assigned Regional/site cost‑side budgets as it pertains to procured materials, services, and equipment. Provide budget and forecast information to Finance and Operations in a timely and accurate manner.

• Development, leadership, and documentation of local sourcing strategies, and participation, support, and implementation of corporate sourcing strategies at the Region/site(s), utilizing corporate standards.

• Correct regional stakeholders have up‑front involvement.

• Procurement strategy teams are created, with appropriate participation and leadership by incumbent.

• Goals and benefits of the strategies are clearly defined and support the regional and its sites.

• Requests for regional quotes are clearly and professionally communicated to potential vendors using our sourcing systems & tools (SAP ERP & SAP ARIBA).

• The operational portion of vendor proposals that support Essity requirements and benefits are reviewed with the local or regional procurement team.

• Incumbent leads the regional procurement team to procurement decisions that support the corporate procurement strategy and affected sites.

• Incumbent manages the regional and site(s) relationships with the vendors in a manner whereby their performance supports the benefits and requirements of the sites and the contracted agreements.

• Incumbent leads regular vendor performance reviews with local vendors, and participates in the reviews of vendors covered under corporate agreements.

• Understanding and leadership of the proper use of the electronic procurement business system (SAP) for the region/site(s). The incumbent is considered the region/site owner and expert on the procurement portion of the system.

• Leads in implementing the Environmental, Health and Safety, Quality/Food Safety System (QRESH) policies and procedures…