Senior Procurement Category Management Specialist - Packaging (Remote

Senior Procurement Category Management Specialist - Packaging (Remote)

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

Lead the procurement strategy for key packaging categories supporting Nestlé Health Science U.S., managing a portfolio of approximately $50M to $70M in spend. In this highly visible role, you will develop and execute category strategies, negotiate supplier agreements, and build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive cost savings, innovation, quality, service, and supply continuity.

The ideal candidate brings deep packaging expertise within the food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, personal care, or chemical industries, along with strong sourcing, supplier management, and contract negotiation experience.

• This role is primarily remote; however, candidates located on Tri-State area (New York, New Jersey & Conneticut) are strongly preferred to support in-person trainings, meetings, and other business needs.
• This role will report to Holistic Health

• Develops and implements long term Category Strategies and yearly sourcing plan for Procurement of several categories of spend for Nestle Health Science US (10-15%)
• Develop and manage continuous improvement pipeline to deliver significant year-over-year productivity. Ensure saving tracking in partnership with Finance. (5-10%)
• Executes market research in various areas, resulting in robust Category Strategies. Keeps abreast of market conditions and maintains an agile mindset to flex resources and external capacity as needed to meet changing business needs. (10-15%)
• Ensures optimize sourcing, supplier selection, pricing, contracting and commercialization while meeting quality and service level requirements for their spend area. This results in ensuring negotiation and implementation of supplier agreements to deliver the greatest overall value. Monitors supplier performance on an ongoing basis and develop improvement plans as required. (10-15%)
• Ensure proactive risk management strategy as well as partnering with supply planning team to ensure timely problem solving of supply issues. (5-10%)
• Liaises with various commercial teams to ensure two-way dialogue and understanding of business/brand needs as well as industry trends and opportunities in their area of expertise. (5%-10%)
• Supports new products, new technology or new initiative launches as applicable. Leverage supplier partner in securing differenced ingredients and technology. (5%-10%)
• Support various transformation projects (such as Network optimization, complexity reduction) on as needed basis (5%)
• Ensure timely and accurate maintenance of Procurement data in ERP. (5%)
• Manage monthly price forecast review process. (5%)

Bachelor's degree preferred in Business, Engineering, Food…