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Global Strategic Sourcing Manager Packaging – Flexibles

Procurement Utrecht Full-time Netherlands

Job Description

The Purchasing function in JDE is on the journey to a Worlds Class Procurement Organisation delivering against JDE Business ambition. Within this role you are responsible for a strategic direction and delivery of best in class results in the categories Laminates, Lables and Consumables. You will report to the Global Strategic Sourcing Director. You ensure a development and execution of robust Global sourcing strategies, supply and price risk mitigation strategies, Productivity accomplishments via various sourcing initiatives. 

Your responsibilities include: 

  • Developing robust global category sourcing strategies, lead execution and track benefits realization
  • Building effective relationships engaging with stakeholders across regions, functions and business units that maximise value and drive continuous improvement
  • Identifying and prioritising opportunities to deliver total cost of ownership savings across categories and drive the implementation of the plans to capture those opportunities
  • Proactively managing supplier relationships to deliver cost & cash results to drive continuous improvement and position JDE as a customer of choice
  • Measuring and benchmark performance to ensure that JDE has the most competitive cost base in respective categories
  • Driving innovation programs to continually search for cost saving opportunities, new technologies, new products and new suppliers that contribute to the overall strategy of the business
  • Managing supplier selection process, negotiate & contract key suppliers and ensure contracts execution
  • Building longer term productivity pipelines in the categories to ensure a continuous delivery against Procurement productivity targets.

Qualifications

If you have the courage and confidence to venture into new cultures & territories, and you're brimming with an entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to succeed, you’ll fit right in at JDE. We roll up our sleeves, pitch in, and get our hands dirty to break new ground. Committed to playing at our best, we think bigger and move faster, always rising to the challenge that matters most and celebrating the wins that count.

For this role as a Global Strategic Sourcing Manager Packaging – Flexibles we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

  • Preference for a further degree / MBA
  • At least 10 years of relevant experience
  • An excellent track record of delivering “best in class cost and cash results”.
  • Successful experience of leading cross functional teams that focus on the lowest total cost of ownership as a key target
  • Ability to work under pressure, high level of stress resistance
  • Strong project management and leadership capabilities
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills.
  • The ability to thrive with ambiguity and change

Additional Information

Your application at JDE

If you are interested in this career opportunity at JDE, hit the “I’m interested” button and upload your application. After receiving your application we will do our utmost to give you quick feedback. Part of the recruitment procedure at JDE will be an online assessment, followed by interviews. A pre-employment check can be part of the recruitment process.

For more than 265 years, JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) is inspired by its belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We are fuelled by our purpose of unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea to create a better future. Today, our coffee & tea portfolio is available in more than 100 developed and emerging markets, through a portfolio of over 50 brands that collectively cover the entire category landscape led by leading household names such as L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, Old Town, Super, Pickwick and Moccona. 

JDE is part of JDE Peet’s, the world’s largest pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands.

What’s it like to work at JDE?

We are proud of our passionate, driven associates that challenge the status quo and pursue mastery in everything they do. Our goal is simple and ambitious – JDE: A coffee & tea for every cup.

At JDE, we're Made to Stand Out. Every day we are progressive in outlook, ambitious in nature, resourceful in action and decisive in approach, bringing coffee and tea moments to everyone around the world.