Position Title: Sr. Procurement Manager Capex

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: VilleneuvedAscq 2020

Requisition ID: 28625

Within the Continental Europe McCain Procurement Team, the Capex buyer will lead the overall supplier relationship strategy for their spend area, ensuring proper commercial treatment of suppliers by reinforcing policy, ethics and our strategic approach with suppliers and with other company functions.

This role will need to understand Procurement Systems and Processes to ensure proper procurement transactions are applied.

The main outcome of this role will be to support our 3 main capital projects in Belgium, in France and Northern Europe . A strong focus will be around the purchase of equipment and services for these major projects.

This role is reporting to the Director Capex & MRO.

Missions :

Strategy development and implementation:

- Work with the Main Stakeholders (engineering, manufacturing, agriculture…) in Europe, to apply strategies that supports current business

- Own and report on categories procurement functional performance metrics (KPIs)

Relationship Management:

- Develop strong personal relationships with stakeholders and senior leadership team across the business.

- Deliver outstanding customer service to key stakeholders with a view to becoming an invaluable business partner of key stakeholder functions including Manufacturing, Finance, HR and Engineering.

- Develop a standard approach to Supplier Relationship Management across the team, ensuring strategic and key suppliers are managed appropriately dependent on criticality and risk

Category management:

- Ensure category plans support operational business owners’ goals and plans and make sure these plans are effectively executed – support and guide key stakeholders to comply with Procurement Policy.

- Supply risks managed proactively and contingency plans in place with critical suppliers

- Identify fragmented purchases and consolidate where possible to drive quality, cost savings and standardization in all areas

Cost-Saving Opportunities:

- Proactively identify cost-saving (Net Value delivery) opportunities within the category portfolio through cost competitiveness and new formulas development with key stakeholders.

- Optimize spending (cash and cost avoidance) across the sourcing while maintaining high-quality products, delivered on time

- Maintain appropriate pricing systems (e-procurement catalogues and national contracts) to ensure correct purchase price and timely, accurate payments. Promptly resolve any invoice discrepancies with focus on identifying and correcting the root cause of the discrepancy

- Make tender award decisions in line with procurement operating principles

Market knowledge:

- Develop strong market knowledge, helping to improve our accuracy in preparation of supplier negotiation. In parallel, based on the risk & opportunities identified, the buyer will provide some recommendation and look for market risk management solutions

Qualifications

Your profile :

Master’s Degree, preferably in procurement, Business or Engineering.

Minimum 5/10 years procurement experience preferably in industry, experience in capex will be highly appreciated.

Business thinking: Able to connect business needs with external capabilities

Collaboration: Regarded as a constructive team player and have a strong sense of partnership behavior

Analytical thinking: Disciplined and data oriented to gain competitive advantage (should cost model & TCO approach).

Communication: Ability to communicate within a complex organization environment

Capacity to plan, organize and manage multiple priorities and able to support stress

Creative & Flexible: able to evaluate opportunities and adapt priorities according to internal & external context (eg.shortage )

Diversity mind-set: Ability to manage in a matrix organization and across regions and cultures

Fluent in English & French