Senior Purchasing Manager

$120,000 - $145,000/Yr

The Henkel Group - Stamford, CT

Full-time

Stamford, CT

10,001+ employees

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. Dare to make an impact? In this role, you will assist the Category Team Lead in developing strategy 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 contributions will help deliver bottom line/top line results by managing your own spend/projects according to yearly and long-term planning and upfront targets. You will also help document all decisions made on suppliers and gain insights into the total value chain, industry, and supply base for selected spend. Conducting periodical risk assessments and designing 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 practice 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. Proactively steering the agreement portfolio will also be a key aspect of your role.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Category Team Lead in developing strategy for the entire Category Team spend.
• Define execution modalities after approval by the Decision Committee.
• Ensure full documentation and traceability of processes.
• Support the Category Team Lead in including end-to-end cost optimization in interaction with Global Supply Chain.
• Manage own spend/projects according to yearly and long-term planning and upfront targets.
• Document all decisions made on suppliers and gain insights into the total value chain, industry, and supply base.
• Conduct periodical risk assessments and design adequate countermeasures for selected spend.
• Define and manage a selected sustainable supplier portfolio.
• Select suppliers and establish strategic supplier relationships where appropriate.
• Support the delegation of back-office jobs to the Shared Service Center and develop best practices for e-sourcing.
• Ensure cross-fertilization of knowledge and best practice sharing inside the Category Lead and across the 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.
• Excellent stakeholder management and team collaboration skills with experience in proactively engaging customers and suppliers to identify and define potential issues and opportunities.
• Advanced analytical capabilities in Excel; SAP experience preferred.