Procurement Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of country buyers, providing guidance, support, and training as needed.
• Establish and maintain on regular basis system of KPIs tracking such as productivity, payment terms, projects under execution etc
• Establish and develop strong relationships with the local leadership team.
• Facilitate procurement projects and initiatives in alignment with broader business objectives.
• Ensure procurement activities adhere to all relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Set up and control proper procurement processes and ensure they are followed.

Category Management

• Collect and analyse the information on suppliers, competitors, feedstock and the market and the distillation of insights for strategy development and negotiations
• Identify opportunities for purchasing productivity savings which deliver annual productivity savings targets
• Develop action plans and run productivity projects in co-operation with other departments
• Regularly monitor all productivity projects in the agreed format and provide proper calculations on the completed projects to the management
• In scope of responsibility ensure timely material price data submission (AOP)
• In line with budgeting process provide to management analysis reports
• Coordinate new product and project launches activities in part of timely and effective supplier selection materials and services
• Supply risks mitigation plan development and communication to the business
• Execute supplier contracts based on commercial agreements. Contracts and annexes preparation;
• Support prices adaption process with packaging & raw materials suppliers according to the contracts conditions
• Maintain purchasing records/data

• Establish and maintain linkages to internal stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing and Supply Chain)