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Procurement Category Manager Packaging - Aarhus, Leeds

jobbeskrivelse:

Can you combine a solid commercial understanding with a keen technical interest, and are you looking for a job where you have international responsibility and high impact?

If so, this is your opportunity to join Arla’s Procurement team and be part of an exciting transformation journey and create value for our dairies globally. Arla’s Procurement department is strengthening its position towards the global Arla organisation through category based reporting lines and increasing the number of employees to deliver on the ambitious targets.

Join Arla’s Procurement team spread across Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Poland and Hong Kong. On behalf of our global organisation, we manage procurement activities of an annual spend of ~3.5 billion EUR. You will work out of Aarhus or Leeds and report to our Procurement Director.

Take charge of sourcing projects and manage stakeholders
As a procurement category manager, you have category responsibility for purchasing specific packaging products in the categories: corrugated, labels, cartons and bag in box. Thus, you will be responsible for a multimillion euro purchasing budget, and you will be an active player in daily purchasing activities and projects in a strategic, tactical and operational way.

One of your primary tasks will be to define procurement strategies for your area and abovementioned sub-categories. More specifically, you will be working closely with the Danish and Swedish production sites, managing key stakeholders in connection with changeover designs. As such, you will work closely with colleagues throughout Arla, ensuring effective category strategies and category roadmaps, and you will:

• Establish and develop optimal relationships with our suppliers and drive tenders
• Proactively benchmark prices to ensure best custom value when our designs change using Ariba Sourcing Tool
• Drive various projects, e.g. a colour optimisation project and a vendor managed inventory project

Strategic procurement experience with a flair for project management
You drive tasks proactively, fostering fruitful collaboration through strong relationships. Ready to hit the ground running, your ability to take the lead on projects is essential, just as you need your innovative and strategic way of thinking to be able to prioritise tasks. Lastly, you thrive working in a dynamic, multicultural environment, and you:

• Hold an MBA degree or similar
• Have solid purchasing experience as well as technical and economic knowledge
• Have experience with strategic procurement, relationship management and project management
• Are prepared to travel across Europe
• Speak and write English fluently

Application
If you want to seize this exciting opportunity, please apply as soon as possible. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the right candidate is found.

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Arbejdsgiver Navn: ARLA FOODS AMBA

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