LAM Procurement Manager - Logistics Category

We are looking for an experienced Procurement Manager to lead Logistics services sourcing across the Latin America. Besides this role will be responsible globally for sea freight. This role is accountable for strategic supplier management, negotiations, cost savings and contract coverage, working closely with stakeholders to ensure business continuity and value creation.

This is a manager-level, individual contributor role, reporting directly to a global procurement leader and playing a key role in regional and global sourcing strategies. 

Key responsibilities 

• Support/ Coordinate the development of and deploy procurement strategies related to the assigned categories. Follows alignment to priorities and performance goals, executes the strategy and implement strategic procurement efforts and innovation in specific categories as necessary and appropriate. Deploy sourcing best practices globally and ensure they are widely adopted​
• Follow strategy implementation. Track and trace forecasted performance vs. actual savings for the categories. Assist to find solutions to mitigate any supply risk​
• Responsible for ocean strategy and make markets updates to the organization on ocean topics
• Represent sourcing categories with Group stakeholders. Communicate sourcing market trends/results for categories to key stakeholders. Work with finance stakeholders to ensure savings are built and measurable into budgets and the annual operating plan. Support the sourcing team to be actively engaged in core business processes. Provide regional/local budget input on market effect, standards and productivity initiatives impacting costs​
• Participate in the process to select and monitor suppliers. Coordinate the supplier selection and negotiation process for key sourcing teams and overall management of the strategic suppliers to the group.​
• Lead regional/ local sourcing strategies in alignment with the global category strategy and oversee sourcing events​
• Maintain expertise in the categories of spend. Remain updated with market trends through relationships with Supply Managers, suppliers and market experts, and ensure that we have a process to gain access/familiarity with emerging supplier capabilities​
• Execute the Group Sustainability Targets and the sourcing strategies include Sustainable Engineering ​
• Ensure compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, contracts management and laws, as well as monitoring suppliers quality, risk and compliance​
• Coordinate the Category Strategy Planning: Mobilize teaming, Collect category insights (with Analytics) & create category profiles, Identify opportunities & prioritize projects (with Business Partner) and  Create category and buying channel strategy

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field
• Experience in Procurement or Strategic Sourcing
• Experience in industries such as FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, or Industrial manufacturing
• Proven expertise in logistics categories, especially truckload, warehousing, co-packing, and ideally ocean freight.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix, international environment
• Strong analytical capability with advanced Excel skills;
• English and Spanish: Fluent (mandatory) – daily interaction with global stakeholders and supplier (Portuguese is a plus)

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