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Regional Category Lead Agriculture & Ingredients Chiswick, England

pladis

Full Time Chiswick, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today

Job description

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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What will this role achieve?

Enable the Regional Head of Procurement (UK/Europe) to partner with the Regional Executive Team in all day-to-day procurement operations that impact the Regional P&L.
Lead effective business partnership for Regional UK/Europe Agriculture and Ingredients to positively impact the Regional P&L.
Manage the Regional Agriculture and Ingredients procurement team from regional category strategy development to contract and supplier management.
Provide information and impact assessments to Global Procurement teams to set Global procurement strategies and plans and excellently implement them for the region.
Drive and deliver cost and services projects, developing a positive relationship with Global Procurement team.
The role reports to the Regional Head of Procurement – UK/Europe

What will be your key deliverables?

Leadership and Management Responsibilities

Acts in accordance with and advocates the ‘Procurement Key Operating Principles’.
As a key member of pladis Regional Procurement, acts to ensure self and all Agriculture and Ingredients team members are seen as exemplars of professional procurement practice, ensuring all procurement activity in accordance with pladis procurement operating model, One Procurement Community (OPC), stated ethics, CSR and other procurement and legal policies.
Ensure 100% alignment and delivery of both Regional and Global Procurement targets.
Delivers high quality strategic solutions for Regional UK/Europe Agriculture and Ingredients categories to meet the needs of the organisation, delivering value and having significant coverage and commercial influence over regional 3rd party expenditure.
Demonstrates effective stakeholder management ensuring delivery of commitments to key stakeholder areas relevant to Regional UK/Europe Agriculture and Ingredients and Global categories and the wider business.
Responsible for ensuring annual Regional process is adhered to and business owners aware of their accountabilities.
Effectively communicates the Businesses and Procurement’s strategic direction and cascades into objectives and action plans for direct reports.
Takes ownership of specific tasks/projects as directed by Regional Head of Procurement – UK/Europe and pladis Chief Procurement Officer.
Develops, leads, coaches and mentors direct reports. Coaches and mentors colleagues across the OPC as requested.
Leads team building, collaboration and demonstrate the required pladis leadership attributes.
Supports Regional Head of Procurement – UK/Europe, providing leadership and support on Region Procurement and Regional Agriculture and Ingredients categories across the OPC.
Manages performance and talent management activities with direct reports and associated teams; and ensures consistency by checking performance data with the leadership team.
Ensure as team members have personal development plans and conducts formal and informal performance reviews with all team members.

Procurement Responsibilities

Regional Category Strategy

Understanding the Regional Procurement risks that will be monitored by all pladis Group Companies and pladis Procurement Team;
Responsible for implementation and monitoring of Global risk mitigation plans within the Region for Agriculture and Ingredients.
Providing the Regional UK/Europe Packaging and Ingredients inputs in terms of investment and budget to the Global Procurement teams and understands in return how the Global Strategies may impact the Region. Is responsible for the procurement budget for the region
Undertakes and improves detailed business requirements analysis from Risk, Sustainability and Research & Insights; and aligns Regional category strategies to pladis’ objectives.
Inputs and supports Regional Head of Procurement in planning the Procurement investment and budget for the Region as advised.
Define the strategies and plans, aid to budget delivery, including respect of governance and policies, and insights received from Market Intelligence.
Support the alignment of key members in the Region with approval of Global category strategies. Implementing excellently Global strategies and plans defined by Global Procurement teams.
Drives innovation and continuous improvement across the business, acting as a role model around quality and process standards.
Develops and maintains detailed supply market knowledge and tools that drive innovative sourcing solutions within their key Regional categories.
Leading the sourcing cycle for Regional Agriculture and Ingredients Procurement; engaging negotiation teams when relevant; driving an effective negotiation process.
Reports on Regional category level performance metrics and other relevant management information.
Conducts supplier segmentation and develops, maintains and communicates a preferred supplier and approved product/service list for their agreed categories.
Understands the impact of category decisions on the business units P&L and the global pladis impact.
Actively keeps abreast of latest innovation, technologies, thought leadership, forces affecting the Regional and Global category agenda and acts accordingly to enable pladis to in in the regions.

Supply Management

Develops and manages appropriate supplier relationship management program with key Regional category suppliers.
Develops and implements rigorous contracts for all Regional UK/Europe Agriculture and Ingredients category suppliers within the category, incorporating service level agreements and continuous improvement targets.
Drives supplier and product/service rationalisation through cross-functional reviews with key stakeholders.
Lead the creation and management of contractual coverage for all Regional UK/Europe Agriculture and Ingredients categories.
Building strong relationships with suppliers. Performing the sourcing cycle and negotiating with suppliers using a broad array of negotiation techniques. Proactively and appropriately communicating with them throughout the sourcing cycle for best outcome for pladis.
Drive success of global and regional contracts by implementing across all appropriate business areas in conjunction with regional teams. Identify compliance issues, working with key stakeholders and Regional Procurement to rectify where possible.
Works collaboratively with Global Procurement teams to ensure appropriate supplier evaluation and performance management plans are in place for Global (as well as Regional) category suppliers.
Driving the supplier relationship management (SRM) for the Regional categories; identification of suppliers, selection and relationship management; and providing feedback to Global Procurement on Global categories.
Leads and facilitates appropriate supplier/cross-functional workshops to seek and implement innovative and value adding ideas and proposals from suppliers.

What do you need for this role?

Essential

Excellent functional Procurement experience leading categories across a region and/or multiple geographies, within Direct, Marketing, and Indirect categories.
Strong capability to set category strategy and plans; experienced in establishing credibility with internal and external partners.
Strong budget management, analytical, and quantitative skills
Outstanding ability to encourage, energise, and lead a large team.
Strong project and organisational change capabilities

Excellent Functional Capabilities:

Proven ability to develop Procurement profile as an authentic business partner in a global business
Generation of exceptional industry insights for Procurement and pladis
Proven ability to develop external Market insight and develop alignment to deliver breakthrough thinking for pladis
Proven ability to build effective service provider and supplier relationships
Seasoned, adaptive and effective negotiator, who can use a broad array of different approaches and techniques.

Excellent Leadership Capabilities:

Building and sustaining trust with stakeholders and the team through authentic relationships
Strong influencing, communication skills and personal impact to gain credibility quickly with senior stakeholders
Proven ability to operate and successfully managing variety of senior stakeholders across a global, complex matrix structure
Ability to establish/ maintain effective communication with stakeholders within the region and across global business
Coach members of his/her organisation to build a world-class team.
Demonstration of personal accountability for great performance and brilliant execution
Strong commercial acumen, understanding of the business, and judgement
Experience of taking tough decisions and prioritising delivery in a complex and difficult environment
Objectively challenges established practice to stimulate thinking
Inspirational team leader with excellent people management skills

Desirable

Global experience a benefit
Experience of leading, motivating and developing people through difficult period/ large change program

Our winning traits and behaviours

Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success
Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.

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