Manager-End-to-End Logistics Buyer

Overview

The role is to manage Logistics related procurement strategy and activities in selected scope in Europe. Logistics cover white pallets, 3PL Warehousing, repacking. The person must drive value on total spend through category expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and relationship with suppliers.

Warehousing and Transportation is a key element in service to sales with direct impact on product availability and so revenue. In Europe sector this logistics scope is mostly outsourced to 3rd Party Logistics providers. This role covers the development of strategy, implementation of procurement events, contracting, and supplier management.

This challenging role has an objective to adopt and execute the Global/Sector strategy on Logistics procurement into the markets in the scope. The role also has responsibility to significantly contribute to the CAPEX assessments for projects where outsourcing of in-house logistics operation is in scope.

The person will have a strong challenge to be recognized by the Supply Chain community as business partner and source of financial productivity and continuous improvement through sound knowledge of logistics and levers to obtain the maximum value from the warehousing, transportation and pallet pooling spend.

As part of the responsibilities, the person will build logistics expertise, ensure logistics market intelligence, develop procurement strategies, align procurement strategies with business strategies and priorities, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver jointly with Supply Chain community short term and long-term productivity pipeline. He/she will have a strong focus on premier customer service, capacity availability and better than market logistics cost.

Responsibilities

• Data collection and detailed analyses to build procurement outcomes together with local business stakeholders.
• Analyze current sourcing footprint, develop sourcing vision, and provide improvements
• Data collection on spend, and understanding spend insights
• Market intelligence of the category in related BU.
• Supplier selection process
• Support tender design
• Conduct analyses of RFX responses and shorten the list of suppliers.
• Organize and participate in supplier negotiations.
• Consolidate scenarios to be defended on final review with internal partners
• Contracting
• Review current contracts
• Establish updated terms in line with RFX outcomes, administrate approval process with internal partners and suppliers.
• Ongoing administration of compliance and tracking.
• Supplier information management
• Managing cost control
• Feeding forecasts for annual operating plan and quarterly updates.
• Search for improvement opportunities, deliver productivity and cash improvement targets
• The scope is flexible for all Europe. Detailed projects are to be allocated during AOP cycle according to the team's overall workload.
  
  

Qualifications

• University degree
  
  

Experience:

• 7 - 9 years with relavant 5-6 relavant experience in Logistical E2E Buyer operations.
• Strong background in procurement in FMCG categories Preffered
• Experience of working in and with multiple countries
• Reporting, Financial, analytical and project management skills
• Advanced desktop computing experience, solid MS excel user
• Systematic thinking, structured with solid analytical skills
• Strong internal customer management skills. Capacity to listen understand internal client needs and deliver appropriate solutions
• Experience in e-sourcing tools, logistics, or procurement are additional assets.
• Ability to perform in matrix organization