Senior Buyer, Procurement, Liquids & Prepress North America

About the role

The Senior Buyer, Procurement – Liquids & Prepress North America will lead strategic sourcing and category management for key materials including solvents, waxes, starch, hazardous waste, and energy curing inks, managing an annual spend of approximately $90M across North America.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Contribute to the development of the overall procurement strategy and translate the procurement strategy into concrete action plans
• Work closely with the Technical Procurement Manager Liquids & Prepress NA and other key stakeholders to develop and implement effective sourcing strategies for the relevant category in order to ensure quality of services and improve value to Amcor
• Evaluate market and competitive conditions and use as a basis to review Category strategies and sourcing activities
• Manage the supply base across the Categories. Leverage Category spend across regions as appropriate
• Maintain oversight of procurement processes and ensure they align with Amcor's global network
• Monitor integration of Procurement in core business processes
• Leverage Category spend across regions as appropriate
• Identify trends and/or issues that need improvement within the Category accounts
• Avoid and mitigate risks across the Categories while developing and contributing to a risk strategy for the Categories together with mitigating actions
• Enhance the relationship with suppliers in an innovative way to maximise value
• Manage negotiation process, content and results. Lead the negotiation team to deliver the desired outcomes
• Build strong rapport with suppliers and obtain access to supplier senior management
• Establish cross-functional teams to negotiate and implement improved operational and commercial supply outcomes for the business and customers
• Collaborate closely with Technical CPM Liquids & Prepress and relevant departments to ensure understanding and compliance with procurement strategies
• Guide relevant departments to the correct supplier relationships that will help ensure maximum value will be delivered to Amcor
• Develop budgets and targets based on aggressive, well founded, realistic and forward oriented goals
• Ensure that financial resource allocation is cost-effective and aligned with strategic and operational plans
• Build an accurate forecast for Category price movements
• Track and report savings, support procure-to-pay process improvement within the Category area, monitor TCO improvement as well as working capital improvement using the tracking tools in place
• Provide periodic and ad hoc reports and forecasts on performance against plan and potential in following up on KPIs and reporting on trends

Qualifications/Requirements

• Highly proficient in data analysis and manipulation using Microsoft Excel
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in procurement / strategic sourcing of relevant categories
• Relevant experience in a company with a mature procurement function
• Experience in market and benchmark analysis at a broad level
• Innovation process experience considered advantageous
• Excellent negotiation skills, problem solving ability and strategic thinking ability
• Excellent communications skills
• Demonstrated category expertise and sourcing/procurement experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline