at Ardagh Group in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The position holder is accountable to support sourcing Plant Equipment, Tooling, and Spares with a range of $100-$200m. This role is responsible for supporting and implementing the sourcing and category management initiatives in the region, internal stakeholder engagement, engagements with suppliers (e.g. SRM process). The position holder reports to the Category Procurement Manager, Capital Equipment and Tooling, and a functional reporting line to the Global Category Director - Plant Equipment, Tooling and SparesStrategy
- Help create and implement Procurement strategies that are innovative, cost-effective, and incorporate the growing complexities and challenges within industry
- Build long-term relationships with vendors in the industry
- Within the framework of the global category strategies, support negotiations and tenders for regional category aspects. Liaise with Ardagh Glass when appropriate.
- Support development of category benchmarks, challenge and champion continuous improvement and value engineering
- Ensure supply chain monitoring capabilities are developed to secure supply at the right cost and working capital.
- Support the regional contract management for category through effective deployment of all agreed terms and conditions and TCO initiatives.
Operational Management
- Support negotiations and tenders in Capex Sourcing
- Compare bid proposals for price and specifications
- Negotiate with vendors to reduce costs, improve cash, reduce demand and improve our CO2 footprint
- Review contract specifications on behalf of the company
- Communicate with vendors to ensure product arrives in a timely fashion and in full
- Support transformational activities to build procurement organizational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency
- Prepare weekly and monthly procurement reports
- Provide input and influences the use and development of key e-tools e.g. contract management, spend and transaction reporting
- Execute as an active partner by providing innovative solutions
- Aid plants with Inventory optimization with a focus on one central ordering point.
- Drive the development of new market opportunities, new ways of working by integrating new technologies (digital etc.)
- Identify, develop and manage strategic business relationships to enable implementation of Ardagh's strategy, revenue growth and new product development initiatives
Internal Stakeholder Management
- Ensure proper business partnering with other relevant functions such as Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical, Quality, Finance, & Global Category Directors.
- Actively drive and enlist business partnering support for Procurement initiatives
- Clearly articulate implications of changes in category landscape towards internal business stakeholders
- Master change management for the business unit through concise execution and communication
General
- Ensure the execution of key internal controls within the area of responsibility
- Manage suppliers ensuring compliance and best in class commercial value (cost and cash) and world class supplies
- Identify opportunities and solutions for 'buying better and buying less/spending smart' by working in close collaboration with the budget owners
- Permanent market research, identification of new challengers but as well supplier development with the objective to create more competition
- Ensure adherence to all safety, health, and environmental rules and regulations
- Demonstrate engagement towards the Ardagh core values "Trust, Teamwork & Excellence" through upholding our standards of business conduct, leading by example, compliance with Group policies & procedures and ways of working
Key Deliverables
- Successfully deploy within region, the category strategy to strengthen the organisation's competitiveness, sustainability compliance and the fit-for purpose product portfolio
- Support Sustainability initiatives with the supplier base
- Manage and benchmark supplier performance on continuity, contingency, quality, service, value and financials.
- Identify, quantify, and deliver opportunities and levers for value optimisation and sustainability targets in collaboration with engineering, finance, quality and operations.
- Implement solutions for transformational value creation as captured in the category strategies and the contractual terms and conditions with the suppliers.
- Provide clear Real Time visibility on price and working capital within the category.
Tactical
- Create and maintain requisitions/purchase orders in SAP
- Update costs for open purchase orders
- Support in setting up new vendors
- Support in maintaining vendors information
- Support in reconciling invoice discrepancies
Education / Training
- Bachelor's degree
Experience and Cometencies
- A minimum of 3 years work experience in procurement, category management and/or supply chain.
- Experienced in ideation and delivery of procurement initiatives addressing technical, financial and sustainability advancements
- Proven ability to work in a cross-functional team in a multicultural organization
- Solid experience working in a virtual team
- Solid financial market and business acumen
- Proven negotiation skills
- Stakeholder management and project execution skills
- Effective communication and influencing skills, ability to convince and persuade others
- Ability to think globally and act locally, combined with strategic direction and flawless operational execution
- Problem solver with a strong analytical mindset
- Resilience and ability to prioritize when facing conflicting demands and high workload
- Excellent MS-Office skills
- SAP skills
Ardagh Metal Packaging believes that the success of our business depends on the success of our people. We strive to create working environments where our employees feel valued and can work to their full potential. We offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team - you'll enjoy the journey!
Ardagh Metal Packaging - North America has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breast feeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, creed, religion (including religious dress and grooming), color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Discrimination against any employee or applicant based on any of these factors is prohibited.
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