Procurement Manager

Step into our world of creativity and joy! Procurement Manager
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

You will develop and implement business procurement strategies for all our sites in Argentina & Chile in all categories of indirect materials and services (IM&S) to improve costs following Givaudan's Category strategies.

You will also lead a experienced and performance-driven Procurement team to ensure targets completion.

You will report into the Regional Head of IM&S and you will work onsite at our manufacturing mill located at Munro, Buenos Aires Province, with one home-office day a week and short Friday.

• Manage Procurement of IM&S for Argentina & Chile.
• Lead the sourcing process, which includes identifying cross-site and site-specific procurement contribution opportunities and driving these projects across sites in Argentina & Chile following the IM&S strategy.
• Support the category management teams in the roll out of strategies, which includes sourcing, pricing, rejections, supplier inventory, supply chain, obsolescence and resolving invoice discrepancies.
• Implement global, regional and local agreements and support the financial targets as outlined by IM&S Procurement and the business.

• Guide the sourcing process by developing knowledge of selected supply markets through study, analysis, personal contacts with suppliers, and any other sources of market information.
• Guide vendor selection and consolidation. Initiate search for new services & materials.
• Solicit and analyze quotes, negotiate price and delivery terms and investigate invoice discrepancies.
• Negotiate annual and long-term contracts following category strategies.
• Perform local negotiations with suppliers and ensure contract cover.
• Investigate and approve the facilities, quality and financial responsibility of potential suppliers.
• Ensure appropriate risk evaluation within the IM&S risk framework and implement mitigation actions.
• Monitor vendors performance of quality of work, costs, timelines and other related parameters.

• Analyze trends and market movements for use in making sound procurement decisions.
• Make category specific recommendations to Category Management for Argentina & Chile.

• Manage the local IM&S Procurement team.
• Secure the necessary skills within the team through recruitment and trainings.
• Develop team member's understanding of roles, responsibilities and goals.

• University degree in a related field, Industrial Engineering, Business Management, International Relations/Trade.
• At least 5 years of experience as a Buyer of indirect materials & services at international industrial companies.
• At least 1 year of experience leading teams.
• Fluent English, both oral and written.
• Experience with procurement systems (e.g. SAP).
• Experience in Project Management and Continuous Improvement.

• Annual bonus.
• Medical and dental insurance coverage.
• Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.
• International working environment
• Quality of Life program.

#LI-Onsite At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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