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Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.  

Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care.  

We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.

We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit www.amcor.com I LinkedIn I Glassdoor I Facebook I Twitter I YouTube

Job Overview

As Category Buyer – IT & Telecom, you are part of the Corporate function Global Category IT & Telecom within Amcor Global Procurement, and you will be reporting to Global Category Manager IT & Telecom who is responsible globally on supporting and executing RfI, RFP , RFQ Global IT Strategies as part of the Professional Services Category team. 

Global Corporate Procurement is a key function that delivers value to Amcor Group by leveraging market knowledge, subject matter expertise and business insights in the procurement of IT & Telecom services and the management of Amcor’s third party spend. Through collaboration with our external suppliers and internal business partners, helps bring innovative IT solutions.

Description: 

As the Category Buyer – IT & Telecom, in collaboration with the other Category team members, you are responsible for identifying and building up new category opportunities that are generated by the Group IT Organization. 

You are proactively identifying opportunities, engaging and partnering with senior Business stakeholders, as well as colleagues in IT Services global and regional Procurement, and establishing relationships with emerging category suppliers to develop opportunities that contribute to the IT & Telecom Category objectives and savings targets. 

You are a strategic visionary who is able to turn your ideas into deliverables and can operate comfortably in novel territory. Your agile, yet delivery-oriented, mindset helps you identify and prioritize emerging procurement trends and successfully drive and deliver RfI / RfP / RFQ results. Thanks to your strong leadership, communication and influencing skills, you secure alignment and support to deliver exceptional value through the implementation of innovative, emerging category projects. 

Your responsibilities: 

• Contributing to procurement pipeline of IT & Telecom category projects by following emerging procurement and IT trends across industries and closely collaborating with the IT directors to identify new category needs within Amcor.


• Develop a pipeline for yearly procurement savings target and collaborate with all procurement BG’s around the world and follow-up with them on a regularly basis to identify potential opportunities for procurement savings 


• Providing innovation and emerging category related input to the development of the IT & Telecom Services and manage end to end RfI, RfQ or RFP 


• Understanding business and IT priorities and challenges and ensuring successful realization of IT & Telecom category initiatives by building strong partnerships across geographically dispersed stakeholders and engaging with IT & Telecom  Category Managers and local and regional Procurement. 

Your qualification: 

• University degree, with specialization in IT is desirable 


• 5- 6 years of in-depth strategic and/or IT operational procurement experience with extensive knowledge of IT & Telecom category management and advanced strategic sourcing, ideally with subject matter expertise in technology. 


• Experience in developing and managing the RFI, RFQ, RFP on their own (Ex: Software license agreements, SAP agreements etc.


• Excellent knowledge in IT contract languages and legal clauses that requires scrutiny and validation


• Excellent communication and project management skills with an ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and deliver complex strategic initiatives, in a truly global, fluid, interactive environment.


• Proven financial and business acumen and capability in negotiation, change management and stakeholder management


• IT Procurement experience is a mandatory requirement 


• Candidates must be eligible to work in Switzerland (holding valid work permit) 


• Business level fluency in English 

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Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$12.5 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 47,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 230 sites.  

Amcor Corporate is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and supports the business through its broad range of functions such as in Finance, IT, Commercial, Investor Relations, Human Resources and Business Development. 

At Amcor we believe in talent through diversity and promote equal opportunity in the workplace and recognise that discrimination and harassment of co-workers based on race, creed, disability, gender, marital or maternity status, religious or political beliefs, age or sexual orientation is unlawful.