Regional Procurement Category Manager Energy EMEA
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Job Summary
Job Summary
Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles better taste and texture and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.
Where Youll Make a Difference
- Develop and lead the EMEA Energy category strategy across electricity steam natural gas and industrial gases.
- Optimize industrial gas supply modes by analyzing plant consumption required purity/pressure/flow and partnering with Engineering and Operations on the optimal sourcing approach.
- Negotiate energy supply contracts including longterm agreements flexibility options and renewable energy solutions.
- Evaluate and coordinate energy hedging strategies (e.g. fixed indexed structured) in close collaboration with Finance and Operations.
- Identify and deliver annual value creation across total cost cost avoidance and cashflow improvements.
- Drive specification optimization standardization and demand management with Engineering and Operations.
- Lead competitive sourcing events complex negotiations and supplier selection activities.
- Manage strategic suppliers (utilities brokers industrial gas providers) including performance reviews risk mitigation and continuous improvement.
- Oversee procurement execution for sustainabilityfocused CAPEX projects (e.g. solar PV heat recovery electrification renewable steam solutions).
What Makes You the Right Fit
- 812 years of procurement or strategic sourcing experience including direct experience with electricity natural gas steam and/or industrial gases.
- Strong experience negotiating energy contracts and understanding market indices regulations and riskmanagement frameworks.
- Proven experience partnering with Finance on hedging strategies and market risk mitigation.
- Demonstrated success in strategy development supplier management and value delivery.
- Experience collaborating with Operations in manufacturing environments.
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Business Supply Chain or related field (required).
- Strong analytical thinking influencing abilities and communication skills.
- Ability to work comfortably in complex and multicultural environments.
How You Would Stand Out
- Masters degree and/or procurement certifications (CIPS CPSM etc.).
- Experience in cleanenergy infrastructure procurement.
- Proactive resilient and comfortable managing volatility and ambiguity.
Why Choose Us
- Hybrid working model supporting worklife balance.
- Opportunities to lead highimpact sustainability and energytransition initiatives.
- Learning and development opportunities to support career growth.
- Global purposedriven organization committed to innovation and sustainability.
- Inclusive culture where every colleague can bring their authentic self to work.
- Competitive rewards aligned with experience and responsibility.
We are a global leader in taste scent and nutrition offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity national origin race age sex or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion gender identity & expression sexual orientation or disability.
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