Position Title:  Category Manager - Procurement

Regional Category Manager

We are looking for a dedicated Procurement Category Manager OPS&WX to join the regional Indirect Materials & Services Procurement team, based in Mexico City!

As a Procurement Category Manager OPS&WX, you will be responsible to build the regional categories' strategy & deployment plans and improve quality of market demand management. You will be accountable for procurement strategies in categories of Logistics, Facilities, Fleet and Travel.

Your “day to day”:

Category Strategy, Risk Management

• Formulate category strategies that fits overall business functions strategies (regional) and objectives, that delivers, cost effective solutions and provides commercial leadership in value management and other initiatives aimed at reducing the total cost of ownership.
• Chip in to Global category strategy and orchestrate the vital workshops – Global categories and top Markets - to develop the deployment plans and agree on cost targets. Prioritize together with Global Categories strategy roll out.
• Accountable deploy risk management strategies in the regions and supervise risk to reduce potential risk exposure.

Sustainable Contribution Pipeline

• Develop and sustain long-range incremental productivity pipeline focusing on Cost reduction / prevention and collaborating with Markets in productivities identification and deployment
• Find opportunities of standardization of business requirements across the Region (wherever applicable), leverage on standardization to gain cost efficiency within the regional spend.

Partner Engagement

• Through robust governance framework deploy effective regional customer management to ensure agreement and qualitative deployment of global / regional category strategies and deployment of sourcing plans on regional and market levels.

Market intelligence

• Develop and capitalize on market knowledge within assigned categories to anticipate Business needs and translate them into category and sourcing strategies.

Demand, Project Pipeline, Sourcing Plan

• Build projects pipeline in focus categories based on business customers priorities and demands provided by Procurement Accounts. Focus on sustainable contribution, value creation and boosting category management standardization, demonstrating on best-in-class practices. Ensure timely realization of category sourcing plan.

Regional Spend Management.

• Through the deployment framework enable Finance OB and RF cycles, providing the latest updates on regional procurement contribution initiatives and cost information (cost drivers trends and materials/ services prices).

Negotiation & Partnership

• Master negotiation and proactively build cost category levers. Coordinate and steer critical negotiations and lead sophisticated ones. Anticipate results and align with customers on possible negotiation outcomes.
• Establish cross-functional collaboration to boost cost efficiency (including productivity): idea generation, feasibility study and further realization.

Contractual Framework

• Master legal templates to encompass local legislative requirements, Business’ needs, RSP principles, IP rights, company protection and exclusivity clauses. Issue management of legal templates when applicable.
• Drive the deployment of contractual models / "golden" samples with strategic suppliers and / or within strategic scope.

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

• Develop supplier engagement strategies as part of each approved category strategy and builds external relationships focused on value creation for the long term with key suppliers.

Sustainability

• Engage core suppliers and core business partners to generate and deploy Sustainability initiatives. Accountable for region success on Scope 3 CO2 footprint focusing on Logistics services portfolio

Procurement Process

• Drive continuous improvement in ways of working between categories and market accounts to generate business impact in an efficient operating model.

Who we’re looking for:

• You have University degree in any relevant subject, MBA degree or Diploma from a recognized Procurement Institute is an asset
• You have 10 years of experience in procurement strategic role, preferably across Operations categories (i.e. Logistics, Facilities, Fleet)
• Exposure to a multinational environment, preferably within FMCG company
• In-depth understanding of best-in-class procurement practices (category management, procurement strategies, should-cost models, Supplier Relationship Management, Risk Management, Supplier driven innovation).
• Exposure to a multinational environment. Role requires business fluency in Spanish and English, Portuguese is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Shown ability to adapt to a fast paced, constantly evolving environment.

The ideal candidate will be an analytical leader with indirect procurement experience in sophisticated, international, and technical environments. The individual needs strong interpersonal skills and the experience to influence and support cross-functional customer groups across all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate takes initiative and demonstrates ownership in driving business goals, while being agile to lead change in a rapidly developing IMS category/procurement organization. Key leadership traits required include the ability to influence and form strong partnerships with local, regional, and global business leaders in running multiple sophisticated and challenging priorities simultaneously. The ideal candidate must have strong communication and presentation skills.

What we offer

Our success depends on the people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to try new things, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

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