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Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other products. Amcor works with leading companies around the world to protect their products and the people who rely on them, differentiate brands, and improve value chains through a range of flexible and rigid packaging, specialty cartons, closures, and services. The company is focused on making packaging that is increasingly light-weighted, recyclable and reusable, and made using a rising amount of recycled content. Around 47,000 Amcor people generate US$12.5 billion in sales from operations that span about 230 locations in 40-plus countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC

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Job Details

 

Position Job Title: Category Procurement Manager Aluminium

BG and BU: Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA)

Function: Procurement

Location: Open location with preference for AF Singen or Zurich

Line Manager’s Job Title: Senior Director Global Category Aluminium

Advertising Legal Entity: Amcor Group GmbH, Zuerich/Switzerland

Work contract Legal Entity: Contract will be issued accordingly with legal requirements and legal entity of the hiring country

Contract Type: Permanent

 

JOB PURPOSE

• Build relationships with suppliers in the Aluminium Foil and Foil Stock category to position Amcor as a preferred and trusted business partner and ensure an uninterrupted supply of quality goods at optimum Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).


• Deliver sustainable business results, including supply assurance, cost, quality, service and innovation, sustainability improvements which are required to meet the business needs.


• Contribute to the overall Foil Manufacturing Strategy, develop the relevant Aluminium Foil and Foil Stock Category strategy and play a key role in the implementation of both.


• Enhance total value procured from the Aluminium Foil and Foil Stock supply base by driving qualification and simplification across the Category accounts.


• Play a key role in Amcor’s global Sustainability Strategy in the development and implementation of a sustainable and responsible sourcing strategy.


• Align AFEMEA Aluminium Strategy with the global aluminium sourcing team

JOB DIMENSIONS & SCOPE

Financial: Annual spend at around mutliple million Euros

Process: Forward thinking up to 3 years

Staff: No direct reports

Scope & Geographical spread: Regional/Global

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

 Strategy Development and Implementation

• Contribute to the development of the internal Foil Manufacturing Strategy and translate the key business directions into concrete inputs in the Foil Stock Category Strategy


• Develop Foil and Foil Stock Category strategy, inclusive of global sourcing, risk management, technology shift, responsible sourcing, sustainability trends and global trade considerations


• Work closely with key stakeholders to develop and implement effective sourcing strategies for the category in order to ensure quality of services, significant cost reductions, added value and responsible sourced materials.


• Ensure that the needs of the Sites and Amcor globally are effectively represented in the Procurement Strategies and to achieve this must work closely with the Business Units, Site Management and Corporate Functions.

Results Achievement

• Control and optimize resources to meet objectives and deliver agreed results while working closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure that sourcing strategies are implemented and function well


• Track and report savings monitor TCO improvement as well as working capital improvement using the tracking tools in place


• Assess and manage risks across the category while developing and contributing to a risk strategy for the category together with mitigating actions


• Manage the supplier base across category area, leverage spend across EMEA or globally and drive & implement best practices and cost reduction initiatives across EMEA


• Monitor integration of Procurement in core business processes


• Follow the set standards with respect to Procurement and ensure consistency with the Amcor requirements and standards


• Identify trends and/or issues that need improvement within the category accounts, identify the Purchasing gaps and use Market knowledge gained through industry analysis, supplier analysis and competitive analyses

Negotiation and Contract Management

• Enhance the relationship with suppliers in an innovative way to realize best total value


• Manages negotiation process, content and results in leading the negotiation team to define the desired outcome of a negotiation


• Use Amcor negotiations techniques and tools to prepare and monitor process


• Build strong relationships with key material providers in order to negotiate more interesting contractual agreements and service levels


• Regularly review and monitor contract realisation and delivery


• Identify and resolve issues or escalate issues, if required


• Ensure transparency in carrying out execution purchasing procedure

Relationship Management

• Identify stakeholders; understand, interpret their current and future needs and manage their expectations;


• Build very good rapport with suppliers and obtains access to senior sales managers


• Collaborate strongly with relevant departments to ensure understanding and compliance with key purchasing strategies


• Create, maintain, enhance professional networks


• Contribute towards Purchasing excellence and customer satisfaction

Financial Planning

• Develops budgets and targets based on aggressive, well founded, realistic, forward oriented goals


• Ensure that financial resource allocation is cost-effective and aligned with strategic and operational plans


• Build an accurate forecast for category price movements

Sustainability

• Support Amcor’s Sustainability Agenda with the implications for the Aluminium category to meet AFEMEA commitments on 2025 Pledge, Enviroaction Targets  and GHG emissions intensity through our supply chain.


• Develop and implement a social and environmentally responsible sourcing strategy and develop close relationships with suppliers to have the ability to meet our standards and are committed to values that are comparative with our own.


• Work closely with the central sustainability team in the reporting and implementation of sustainability targets and in the implementation and certification of our operations and suppliers towards ASI (Aluminium Stewardship Initiative).


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MAJOR CHALLENGES & COMPLEXITIES

External Relationships:

Suppliers
Industry/market relationships
Sustainability Organisations

Internal Relationships:

VP Procurement
Senior Global Category Director Aluminium
Group Procurement Directors
Business, Site Management & key site functions (supply chain, technical)
Strategic Analysts, Procure+ Director
Legal Department
R&D
Finance Department
Sales & Marketing Department
Sustainability Team
Global peers – other BG Aluminium Category Managers

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

 

Formal Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 3 to 5 years of relevant working experience in procurement


• Relevant experience in a company with a mature procurement organisation


• Potential to develop further into a business position


• Project Management


• University Degree

 Specific Skills and Abilities

• Purchasing technical skills, confirmed capability in each of the Key Sourcing Skills


• Mastery of tools, such as: develop and implement Sourcing Strategies, apply Policy, run Inquiry, conduct Negotiation, Benchmark, draft and execute commercial agreements and forecast


• Appropriate application of the market analysis tools – industry analysis and supplier analysis – and a demonstrated understanding of the cost drivers in their markets


• Experiences in the selection, preparation and execution of commercial agreements, relevant to the materials items being sourced


• Demonstrated understanding at an operational level, interacting with other functions


• Effective participation in multi-functional work – projects cross-functional teams in an international environment;


• Technical affinity for complex industrial processes and cost impact on the sourced materials


• Fluent English is required, Chinese & German would be an asset


• A Result oriented, hand on individual


• Team player


• Effective communication at all levels of the organization

 

AMCOR FLEXIBLES EMEA

With more than 55 plants in 22 countries, Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East and Africa (AFEMEA), a division of Amcor, is a market leader and the world's largest supplier of flexible packaging. We deliver innovative packaging solutions and provide enhanced quality products for the food, beverage, pharma, personal care, medical and industrial markets. Its award winning approach towards sustainability makes AFEMEA the preferred partner for customers looking for responsible packaging solutions.