Senior Manager for Procurement responsible for sourcing across Wella Brands in North America. Driving strategy and managing supplier relations in the beauty industry.
Responsibilities
Create and drive sourcing related activity across all the Wella Brands for the NA region
Manage projects related to Marketing Materials, Professional Services, HR, Legal, Facilities Management, and Travel
Influence the design and strategic choices in this area building upon existing strategies and experience while designing and scoping some newly managed by procurement spend segments
Work closely with the Indirect Spend Leader Americas as well as the global indirect spend category buyers to implement new strategies and capabilities in the category strategy design as well as North American Indirect spend across categories
Engage internal stakeholders to review business needs and spend drivers, support strategic choices on suppliers, spend policies and define the external capabilities needed to deliver value and growth
Drive strategy, savings initiatives and business plans with discipline to deliver the business growth plans as well as the fiscal year objectives and longer-term interventions in the 3-5 year horizon
Requirements
Experience in Procurement, ideally in the Business Services and Marketing Materials spend area, at least 5-8 years
Work experience in an international environment and matrix organizations
Capable and proven track record of stakeholder management including business Leaders (internal and external)
Experience in implementing programs and working with broad group of stakeholders
Experience in working in less mature and ‘white space’ spend categories
Degree qualified preferably in Business and specifically Marketing or other relevant discipline.
MBA advantageous.
High degree of fluency in written and spoken English is required.
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