Plant Purchasing Manager

The Company

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The Position

Plant Purchasing Manager

Job Summary

Mission

The Plant Purchasing Manager, reporting to the South Europe & MEA Purchasing manager, will ensure the operational continuity of the different sites of his perimeter, Rubi, Alicante, El Ejido & Moron and Mijas, for a total purchasing spend of 25M€.

Responsible of Local Purchases
- Responsible of the purchase contracts for local purchases OpEx / CapEx
- Support deployment of larger CapEx on his/her sites
- Frequent local presence in the different sites of his/her perimeter
- Sourcing new suppliers and negotiating contracts
- Propose and manage local purchase synergies
- Monitoring suppliers: Performance, KPI’s, Appraisal
- Reporting and analysis, capture of data, collaboration with financial departments for documented the financial performance of his/her targets

Responsible for the Deployment of Global / Regional Category Management Policy & Strategy
- Work closely with regional category managers (indirect, transport, energy, chemicals, packaging, raw materials, mining, capex )
- Ensure compliances with purchasing strategy and policy at site level
- Organize and coordinate local trials with the suppliers (Global/Regional/Local Suppliers)
- Lead new purchasing initiatives at cross-clusters or at country level, on a case by case basis

Playing an active role in Continuous Improvement Processes and Strategy
- Be the single point of contact to the plant managers of the designated sites.
- Collect the local purchasing requirements: anticipate, collect and optimize the sites requirements in terms of quantity and specifications
- Ensure internal customer satisfaction with the performance of the purchasing team.
- Entry point for all purchase requests
- Supplier quality management
- Close collaboration with supply chain / procurement

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and other characteristics
- Leadership, problem solving, interpersonal, communications, planning, team participation skills, and/or language requirements.
- Highly motivated and proactive driver of change
- Strong negotiation and communication skills - both internally and externally
- Ability to have a global view and link business need to purchasing strategy.
- Confident decision maker.
- Proficient in, Google tools, MS Office software, experience ERP systems (e.g. SAP/R3, SPA/HANA IFS
- Ability to quickly understand high level technical elements of the category being handled.
- Understanding and actively promote the procurement cycle
- Have the ability to support and champion the development and introduction of effective purchasing methods and tools
- Languages: Spanish and English (advanced level)
- Previous experience for at least 5 years as Purchasing Manager is required

Position Type

Full time

and

Permanent
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