This role is responsible for leading the Nutritional Ingredients work (Spend > 25M$ growing) worldwide to support the growth of Lactalis group.
The Category Manager responsible will be part of the Global Lactalis Procurement team and will report directly to the Global Procurement Manager for biotechnology and nutritional ingredients global team based in Europe.
This is a challenging, highly dynamic role that will allow you to lead strategies and projects to optimize the quality, service, costs, innovation and cash performance of your categories. Part of this role will have as well sourcing missions in Asia area.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Define with all relevant stakeholders (Zone Procurement team, R&D, Industrial, Quality, Marketing...) the category strategy, considering the internal and external partners (Lactalis countries, Market environment, Suppliers...)
- Design the roadmap for execution
- Drive the strategies with your local counterparts and monitor its progress
- Develop market knowledge and expertise in Asia, deploy best practices by active benchmark
- Have a thorough understanding of the market to identify dynamics, risks & opportunities and provide relevant market information internally through market reports and ad hoc presentations
- Define, lead and monitor relationship with our global supplier's portfolio as well as monitoring their performance.
- Negotiate and implement key Master Supply Agreements and assist local teams in implementing them
- Participate in budget (commodities assumptions and savings plans)
- Coordinate the work done and methods used in the category to strengthen Lactalis expertise and knowledge.
- Maintain an active innovation watch
- Be part of the Lactalis sustainable roadmap
- Help to implement the road map on new acquisitions to quickly find synergies to support Lactalis Group growth
This position requires frequent travels (30% of the time) to meet with local teams and visit suppliers.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Procurement/Strategic sourcing
- Experience in FMCG is a plus
- Relevant experience including technical knowledge of nutritional ingredients is a plus
- Tenacity, with strong adaptation and relationship capabilities to gain credibility and create an efficient network
- Able to set priorities, to take some distance, and be pragmatic
- Ability to integrate stakeholders & business partners
- Excellent communicator with leadership potential - Strategic vision.
- Languages : Fluent in English. French would be a plus. Knowledge of Asian and/ or Oceanian culture(s) is a plus.
