Procurement Sr Manager Ingredients/seasonings

Overview:
This role is responsible for leading Ingredients/Seasoning category across Europe Sector, through developing, aligning, and executing category sourcing strategies. Business objectives will focus on year over year productivity, developing long term pipelines for compressible and Value Engineering opportunities, cost effective innovation to support PEP+ and portfolio transformation, business continuity planning, supply assurance, and supplier performance management to ensure best in class cost/quality/supply service levels.

A key focus in this role will be the development and execution of sourcing strategies as well as strategic supplier relationship management to meet Ingredients/Seasonings Big Rocks, such as cost-effective PEP+ Nutrition, Climate and Agriculture targets achievements, major portfolio transformation, and developing new category business models, as well as supporting Simplify to Grow and Design to Value Europe Business strategy.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and execute category sourcing strategies over a multi-year horizon and ensure delivery of short term annual operation plan (AOP) targets.
- Partner with Global R&D, Global SQA, Sector SC key stakeholders and MSO to understand Region dynamics & business needs (macroeconomic, portfolio transformation, innovation ) for strategy development to ensure maximum business value.
- Drive business alignment and resource allocation to deliver strategy.
- Lead commercial and contract negotiations / RFPs across the sector.
- Develop a robust pipeline of productivity and transformation ideas into appropriate productivity projects in time for annual operation plan (AOP) submissions to ensure delivery of the year-on-year productivity targets.
- Strategic Supplier relationship management and supplier development to unlock innovation in order to deliver cost effective PEP+ and portfolio transformation targets, and to unlock consumer value supporting Design to Value and Simplify to Grow Sector strategies.
- Supplier performance management to ensure best in class cost/quality/supply service levels.
- Develop and execute comprehensive category risk management program including financial risk assessment and Business Continuity Planning strategies to ensure supply assurance.
- Stay fully informed of industry developments, capabilities, market trends and innovation pipeline of suppliers, and ensure insights are translated into sourcing strategies in terms of innovation, VE, enhanced supply strategies as well as intel shared with MSO business partners.
- Lead the team to execute category strategy and focus on team development.
- Maintain appropriate records and reporting processes to ensure compliance with PepsiCo and Procurement policies, including financial reporting, supplier selection, contracting, risk management, productivity, and sustainability.

Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor or higher degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Science, or another related field.
- Experience: 10 years of work experience in procurement or supply chain, or other relevant experience, ideally in the directs raw materials or packaging procurement in FMCG industry. Ability to effectively operate in a matrix driven organization, through collaboration and influencing.
- Strategic thinking: Ability to formulate and then translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed.
- Drive for Results - Communicates persuasively to win support, minimizes or removes barriers, and leverages understanding of key business drivers in own area to achieve results.
- Analytical thinking: Ability to quickly analyze data and transform it into meaningful insights.
- Strong alignment and influence skills with the ability to communicate vision and gain alignment cross functionally with senior management both internally and externally.
- Strong digital acumen and Excel skills.
- Builds talent - experience in managing and developing teams.