Manager Category Procurement Paper Based Packaging

Are you a strong people manager and would you like to work in a global environment where you will be leading your own team in on of the most important categories within the organization? And are you a strategic thinker with excellent communication and decision making skills?

Aeves is looking for one of our FMCG clients for a:

Manager Category Procurement Paper Based Packaging

This company is one of the largest companies in its industry. They want to provide the growing world population with the best nutrients. The company supplies consumer products in many European countries, in Asia and in Africa. They have offices in 32 countries and over 22.000 employees. Procurement is centralized in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities:

• To manage the sourcing activities for the entire Paper Based Packaging spend category in prioritizing targets and controlling milestones;
• To establish, foster and maintain great relationships with the Business Group Management Team and Executives to service the stakeholder interfaces. Also, ensure proactive and highly effective communication towards stakeholders regarding ongoing initiatives on a regular basis;
• To support stakeholders to resolve upcoming sourcing issues and supplier relationship concerns;
• To drive identification of productivity and cost avoidance potentials, to implement and track together with respective Business groups and finance;
• To develop the category sourcing strategies in line with the business and product needs, reflecting supply market dynamics and technological changes in the marketplace and resulting in a continuously updated sourcing roadmap;  To provide support in critical supplier negotiations and relationship building resulting in compliant supplier agreements;  To manage category spend related supplier interfaces and ensure maximum information and benefits sharing across Business Groups;  To manage output in terms of quantity, quality and timing of assigned procurement category buyers and ensure necessary liaison between staff to secure information exchange, synergies and delivery of optimum solutions;  To lead the procurement category team, resulting in professional sourcing of products and services to meet the quality standards and specifications at the lowest possible total cost and with agreed timings whilst driving for excellence in service.
  Profile:
   A relevant Bachelor or Master degree;  Approximately eight years of experience in an international company;  Ideally a Procurement or other Supply Chain background;

 Solid understanding of business complexity within commercial functions and knowledge of relevant markets;  Highly analytical and able to structure, organize and prioritize workloads.

Benefits:
Your salary will be based on the weighting of your job, experience and training. You will also have the opportunity to grow and develop yourself. The company will invest in relevant training courses in your particular discipline. The exchange of knowledge on the work floor between colleagues is also evident, after all, that is the most effective way to learn.
About Aeves:
Aeves is a service provider in the commercial chain (purchasing, sales and marketing) in the areas of consulting, executive search and interim management. A rapidly increasing number of organizations in the public and private sector is taking advantage of our expertise. Often in the form of interim management or through executive search and clearly also in the field of consulting and outsourcing services.
Contact:
Are you interested of do you have any questions? Please contact Boudewijn Meijs at 0031652850540 or at boudewijn@aeves.com