Local Procurement Specialist

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Cali, Valle del Cauca, COL
Hybrid
Senior level
Big Data • Food • Hardware • Machine Learning • Retail • Automation • Manufacturing
We're a global snacking company empowering people to snack right.
The Role
The Local Procurement Specialist develops and executes sourcing strategies, manages stakeholder relationships, and ensures compliance with procurement policies while supporting various projects and analytics efforts.
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Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.
This is an exciting role where you will learn to use market insights and data analysis to work with different partners to start and shape new market trends. You will support the development and execution of sourcing strategies for spend categories and support the continuous improvement and standardization of the strategic sourcing processes
How you will contribute
You support spend category teams to develop and execute sourcing strategies for specific spend categories. To excel in this role, you interact with cross-functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics (for example, conducting "make or buy" analyses). You also generate insights from bid events, prepare supplier negotiation materials, support project execution and supplier relationship management, and drive controls and compliance.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:
  • Procurement
  • Data Analytics - ability to analyze and visualize large amounts of data
  • Supply market analysis experience preferred
  • Project management
  • Negotiating, influencing and building collaborative relationships

More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
  • Capture Local stakeholder needs and guarantee good alignment and solution with all procurement structure
  • Share local business and legal requirements address to procurement Spend Area, ensure they are taken into consideration in strategy definition.
  • Facilitate supply issue resolution with procurement Spend Area Teams & local stakeholders.
  • Manage the relationship with BU leadership & functional leaders
  • Support Spend Area procurement strategies to guarantee innovation and productivities projects and contracts implementation on time.
  • Handling legal documentation with suppliers (contracts, confidentiality agreements, etc.). When Spend Area or Business requires support and Genpact can't support directly.
  • Ensure compliance of the procurement policy.
  • First point of contact for any procurement related issues and escalation process
  • Support compliance controls in place.
  • Support BCP (business contingency plan) implementation at local sites
  • Know and apply the Security, Environment and Quality policies.
  • Support MBS Governance team & Accenture.
  • Support all local procurement requirements and contributes in the accomplishment oh BU KPIS and projects.
  • Support Regional Projects as Supplier Central and CLM
  • Support OEA Program
  • Support Payment process with AP and strategies to improve POT/ POATF KPIs.
  • Spot quotations for NPDs+BCPs+Projects for international transportation and T&W (ocean; air freight, ground transportations).
  • For Amex coordinate ocean, air and ground freight negotiations and rates.
  • Nexus Tool for Ocean freight update and follow up. Align lanes for each route (official files), pickup address, reefer, dyr, etc. For Amex accesses to NA system in Procurement Role.
  • CMASS update and follow up for Copacking.
  • Vmass Support for T&W and International Transp suppliers (creation and update of documents). Ensures Customs and Regulatory Management.
  • Support Implementation of Bids Ocean Freight + Facilities (contract, finance documentation, standards Quality, HSE and Security). Manage shipping documentation (BL, invoicing, certificate origin, credits, insurance, Payment Terms per locations, Taxes and legislations per country).

Job specific requirements:
  • Business, economics or engineering university degree.
  • Minimum 5 year of procurement experience.
  • Purchasing professional with minimum 5 years of procurement experience indirect materials management.
  • Good market knowledge and fairly updated in local and international macro-economic tendencies.
  • Proven experience leadership in multi-functional teams.
  • Minimum 2 years leading strategic projects.
  • Ability to manage multiple and diverse stakeholders.
  • Proven negotiation skills acquired in trainings.
  • Capable to interact with people from different organization level (external and Internal).
  • Customer service oriented.
  • Intermediate - Advanced English level.
  • Proficient knowledge and handling of Business Software solutions and application Systems, i.e.: SAP, Coupa, Supplier Central, Readsoft , Ipaysmart, Office, Excel, Power Point, Word.

What extra ingredients you will bring:
  • Technical Learning
  • Time Management
  • Drive for Results
  • Ethics and Values
  • Problem Solving
  • Standing Alone
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Teamwork skills.
  • Negotiation skills.

Location: Cali, Colombia.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
Wacam is Mondelēz International's Latin America presence with more the 1700 wonderful people proudly representing a diversity of cultures and nationalities. Wacam includes 13 countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Bolivia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemela, El Salvador, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico. We make and distribute our global brands and local jewels such as Field, Club Social to over 190 million consumers.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
At Mondelez International we work under a hybrid model, in which our offices at WACAM offer us a space for connection, collaboration and co-creation, with attendance being subject to the needs of the teams themselves and/or the business.
Where permitted by internal policies and local laws, new hires are required to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment by their date of hire, unless they are granted a medical accommodation.
Job Type
Regular
Sourcing
Procurement

Top Skills

Coupa
Excel
Ipaysmart
Office
Power Point
Readsoft
SAP
Supplier Central
Word
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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
90,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 90,000 individuals around the world. Our Purpose Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. Our Brands We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Our People Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Our Strategies We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands, and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities: • Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth • Execution: drive operational excellence • Culture: build a winning growth culture

Why Work With Us

We offer passionate, energetic and curious people a huge choice of careers in our fun, fast-paced, global business. We operate in four regions: Asia, Middle East & Africa; Europe; Latin America; and North America. And in over 80 countries our people are united in a common purpose to empower people to snack right.

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