Procurement Manager, EECA

Company Description

JDE Peet’s is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, with local roots dating back to 1753, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands, including L’OR, Peet’s, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.

What’s it like to work at JDE Peet’s?

We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple – JDE Peet's: unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea.

We bring action to our intentions, following through on what was agreed, always pushing things forward. We offer our people a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth.

At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea.

Apply to unleash a cup of amazing for your career. UNLEASH YOUR POSSIBILITY!

Find out more at http://careers.jdepeets.com

Job Description

Procurement Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of country buyers, providing guidance, support, and training as needed.
• Establish and maintain on regular basis system of KPIs tracking such as productivity, payment terms, projects under execution etc
• Establish and develop strong relationships with the local leadership team.
• Facilitate procurement projects and initiatives in alignment with broader business objectives.
• Ensure procurement activities adhere to all relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Set up and control proper procurement processes and ensure they are followed.

Category Management

• Collect and analyse the information on suppliers, competitors, feedstock and the market and the distillation of insights for strategy development and negotiations
• Identify opportunities for purchasing productivity savings which deliver annual productivity savings targets
• Develop action plans and run productivity projects in co-operation with other departments
• Regularly monitor all productivity projects in the agreed format and provide proper calculations on the completed projects to the management
• In scope of responsibility ensure timely material price data submission (AOP)
• In line with budgeting process provide to management analysis reports
• Coordinate new product and project launches activities in part of timely and effective supplier selection materials and services
• Supply risks mitigation plan development and communication to the business
• Execute supplier contracts based on commercial agreements. Contracts and annexes preparation;
• Support prices adaption process with packaging & raw materials suppliers according to the contracts conditions
• Maintain purchasing records/data

• Establish and maintain linkages to internal stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing and Supply Chain)

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in procurement
• Experience in managing people.
• Experience with cost negotations
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• SAP knowledge is a plus
• Ability to manage a changing workload in a dynamic deadline-driven changing environment
• Fluency in English

Additional Information

• Competitive salary and comfortable working conditions (hybrid format)
• Compensations & benefits (including insurance programs and meal allowance)
• Rewards & recognition program, learning and development in multicultural environment
• Democratic corporate culture and open management team
• Opportunity to become expert in coffee&tea