At Ecolab, we believe in innovation and excellence. Our mission is to provide sustainable solutions that enhance the quality of life for people around the world. We are seeking a passionate and experienced PMO Procurement Associate Manager to join our dynamic team and drive strategic initiatives focused on cost improvement and business continuity.
As a PMO Procurement Associate Manager, you will play a crucial role in our organization by leading procurement projects across International Markets. International Markets at Ecolab comprises 8 different markets (ANZ, JP, KR, SEA, IMEA, Mexico, BR, LASC). Your efforts will directly impact our ability to deliver high-quality products and services to our customers, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage procurement projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget.
- Drive collaboration between Procurement, Supply-Chain, OI, RDE & Marketing across the 8 markets.
- Ensure progress of global cost-saving and supply assurance projects.
- Create logical plans, realistic estimates, and schedules.
- Initiate and lead cross-functional ideation activities to feed the global project pipeline.
- Identify opportunities and strategies for loss elimination.
- Propose process improvement ideas to reduce time, cost, improve accuracy, or enhance controls.
- Responsible for financial reporting of savings projects and headwinds.
- Effectively communicate results and metrics to leadership/stakeholders as required.
A successful Procurement PMO associate Manager is expected to have:
- Proven procurement sourcing experience.
- Project management skills.
- Continuous process improvement skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Leadership abilities.
- Influential skills.
- Ability to work in a high-paced environment and handle pressure and tight deadlines.
After spending 2 years in this position an associate will have the following key experiences:
- Develop a level of expertise in product portfolio and applications.
- Gain broader project management, process management and people management knowledge.
- Expertise TDC (Total Delivered Cost) process understanding/execution
- Exposure to management both within and across departments.
- Top notch Influencing skills
Experience
2-5 Years of experience, including Procurement Sourcing experience in DIRECT.
Location
Barcelona (Spain)
Formal Training
Bachelor’s Degree in related field
Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right. Disability certificate will be an asset.
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What We Do
A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $12 billion and more than 44,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.
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