Strategic Sourcing Manager
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Job Description
- Work closely with the Global Procurement Team, to align on top level commercial strategies.
- Manage Egypt Raw and Pack categories.
- Prepare Raw and Pack category buying strategy for 3 years
- Engage with regional teams to understand business and regional needs, forecast and demand and provide them with Egypt needs.
- Collaborate with other buyers and support execute procurement strategies.
- Develop and drive category savings initiatives aligned with business objectives.
- Create & evaluate market facts and trends (market intelligence).
- Provide a fact-based understanding of current supply base and intelligence on contracts terms.
- Develop and execute multi-year unique commodity procurement strategies.
- Identify and select suppliers, negotiate pricing and terms and conditions for categories.
- Design and manage the Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Quotation workflow as needed to support business objectives.
- Lead negotiations with suppliers.
- Manage supplier relationships (SRM) with key strategic suppliers and develop playbooks to define the working relationship. Drive delivery of best-in-class performance.
- Engage in dispute resolution and conduct regular and disciplined client engagement for continuous improvement processes.
- Deliver documented savings from bid processes, negotiations, and innovative savings opportunities to meet business requirements and procurement organization objectives.
- Monitor monthly and yearly forecast per material.
- Manage communications with suppliers and serve as key point of contact for Danone businesses on contractual matters.
- Secure new Raw Materials through to first industrial deliveries (risk analysis, negotiation, capacity monitoring)
- Manage R&P category reporting in terms of budget; productivity; quality notifications; spend; SPR; Innovations and local versus global spend
- Support in implementing R&P process
- Maintain suppliers and commodity strategies in the appropriate databases.
- Reference and integrate the new suppliers, by applying the Danone Selection Criteria
- Resolving price discrepancies
- Seeking out savings opportunities while maintaining quality standards
- Participating in storeroom physical inventory
- Ensure the alignment between R&I and Operations on the Category sourcing strategies
- Lead Internal and External Benchmarking
Employment Type
Full Time
Company Industry
Consumer Goods Rental / Food and Beverage Manufacturing / Beverage Manufacturing
