Head of Procurement Logistics & Packaging North America

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes sourcing strategies that create a sustainable cost advantage by partnering with business stakeholders, optimizing spend, and driving continuous improvement across procurement processes, technologies, cost transparency, and market intelligence.
• Develops, implements and maintains logistics and packaging sourcing strategies for Americas in order to achieve business objectives and Procurement targets.
• Defines & leads tender roadmap for sourcing activities across logistics and packaging leveraging the total logistics and packaging spend volume in Americas and making best use of the synergies within the company.
• Oversees negotiations of large supply contracts and improves sourcing approach.
• Fosters global category and/or supplier strategies and ensures their implementation.
• Promotes cross functional culture and cross region business culture.
• Establishes and maintains excellent relationships with carriers and third-party service providers to ensure competitive cost and high service levels. Includes the establishment of strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Aligns with the stakeholders and management to deploy performance target.
• Member of the regional Procurement Management Team.
• Participate in Industry representations/associations (e.g. ACC) and RC14001 Management System Activities for the department

Requirements

• Bachelors degree required with 15+ years experience (Procurement, and Supply Chain management functions such as logistics) or Master’s degree with 10+ years experience strongly preferred
• Previous negotiation experience required
• High degree of analytical skills
• Excellent communications skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of management and other functions
• Must possess basic knowledge of business law, "Occupational Safety & Health Act" (OSHA), "Environmental Protection Agency" (EPA) and state licensing regulations, as well as a basic understanding of Quality Management Systems
• Strong software skills regarding Microsoft office, SAP, e-catalogue systems, other tail-end management tools