Senior Purchasing Manager

$120,000 - $145,000/Yr

Henkel - Stamford, CT

Full-time - Mid Level

Stamford, CT

10,001+ employees

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 47,000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company's potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies, and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth. As a Senior Purchasing Manager, you will assist the Category Team Lead in developing strategies for the entire Category Team spend and defining execution modalities after approval by the Decision Committee. You will ensure full documentation and traceability while supporting the Category Team Lead to systematically include end-to-end cost optimization in full interaction with Global Supply Chain. Your role will contribute to delivering bottom line/top line results by managing your own spend/projects according to yearly and long-term planning and upfront targets. You will help the Category Team Lead document all decisions on suppliers, gaining and documenting sustainable total value chain, industry, and supply base insight/knowledge for selected spend. Conducting periodical risk assessments and designing and managing adequate countermeasures for selected spend will be part of your responsibilities. You will define and manage a selected sustainable supplier portfolio, select suppliers, establish strategic supplier relationships where appropriate, and manage them accordingly. Additionally, you will support the full delegation of back-office jobs to the Shared Service Center and develop best practices for e-sourcing with sustainable results. Ensuring cross-fertilization of knowledge and best practices sharing inside the Category Lead and across the Decision Committee will be crucial. You will be responsible for periodical progress measurement, accuracy of information and data, in-time delivery, and audit conform documentation while proactively steering the agreement portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Category Team Lead to develop strategy for the entire Category Team spend and define execution modalities after approval by Decision Committee.
• Ensure full documentation and traceability in the procurement process.
• Support the Category Team Lead to include end-to-end cost optimization in full interaction with Global Supply Chain.
• Contribute to deliver bottom line/top line results by managing own spend/projects according to yearly/long term planning and upfront target.
• Help the Category Team Lead document all decisions on suppliers and gain sustainable total value chain, industry, and supply base insight/knowledge for selected spend.
• Conduct periodical risk assessments and design/manage adequate countermeasures for selected spend.
• Define and manage a selected sustainable supplier portfolio and establish strategic supplier relationships where appropriate.
• Support full delegation of back-office jobs to Shared Service Center and develop best practices for e-sourcing with sustainable results.
• Ensure cross-fertilization of knowledge and best practices sharing inside the Category Lead and across Decision Committee.
• Be responsible for periodical progress measurement, accuracy of information and data, in-time delivery, and audit conform documentation.
• Proactively steer the agreement portfolio.

Requirements

• MBA degree with a minimum of three years related Purchasing experience or a four-year college degree with six years of related experience.
• Strong knowledge of good purchasing practices, supply chain management, and contract law as it applies to the procurement process.
• Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated flexibility in approach to negotiating based on the situation.
• Excels at stakeholder management and team collaboration with experience proactively engaging customers and suppliers to identify and define potential issues and opportunities; developing solutions that create value.
• Advanced analytical capabilities in Excel are required; SAP experience preferred.