Procurement Category Manager 5369
Procurement Category Manager 5369
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Job Description
At Corbion we exist to champion preservation in all its forms preserving food and food production health and our planet.
The Procurement Category Manager is responsible for sourcing assigned categories for North American sites. You will explore develop and execute on category strategies while engaging with supplier base and internal crossfunctional teams. You will be accountable for costs savings ideation and delivering against individual department and company annual targets.
Responsibilities
- Understandmarket dynamics within assigned categories and the impact of price volatility on business performance.
- Develop recommend and execute procurement strategies for assigned categories
- Take an active role and work with internal stakeholders
- Provide market price updates and relative market intelligence information to internal stakeholders
- Maintain contracts and commitments in a timely manner to understand financial exposure
- Identify and implement cost savings opportunities within the total supply chain of assigned categories
- Develop recommend and submit annual budget numbers for assigned categories and monthly updates
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in economics food industry business or related disciplines. MS/MBA advanced degreepreferred
- 4 years experience in procurement/supply chain function within consumer packaged goods or food industry
- Understanding of markets and the supply/demand fundamentals that make up price risk management price movement and risk to the business
- Previous experience with accounting practices and the effects of hedging on COGS
- Ability to partner with crossfunctional teams to champion change and work in a cross functional matrix environment
- Experience with complex procurement strategies: understand communicate present and execute
- Ability to successfully participate in multiple projects simultaneously
- Knowledge of contract management and resolution procedures
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Travel 510
About Corbion
Corbion is the global market leader in lactic acid and its derivatives and a leading supplier of emulsifiers functional enzyme blends minerals vitamins and algae ingredients. We use our unique expertise in fermentation and other processes to deliver sustainable solutions for the preservation of food and food production health and our planet. For over 100 years we have been uncompromising in our commitment to safety quality innovation and performance. Drawing on our deep application and product knowledge we work sidebyside with customers to make our cuttingedge technologies work for them. Our solutions help differentiate products in markets such as food home & personal care animal nutrition pharmaceuticals medical devices and bioplastics. In 2024 Corbion generated annual sales of 1288.1 million and had a workforce of 2399 is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information:
Corbion is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race color ethnicity veteran status religion national origin marital status political affiliation age sex sexual orientation handicapping condition membership in an organization or any other nonmerit factors.
Corbion provides reasonable accommodation to applicants.
EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled
Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
