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At Solina, our community of over 3,400 people share a **passion for food** and live our entrepreneurial culture.

We design **customised savoury solutions** for our clients operating in the food industry, food service, butchery and nutrition markets. **With sustainability at the heart** of our business model, we aim to produce food that is good in every sense of the word : delicious, nourishing, affordable, sustainable and convenient.

Solina is a fast growing business, with 40 production sites and R&D laboratory, we are present in more than 18 countries mainly in Europe and North America.

By constantly rethinking culinary solutions, **we make food matter for people and the planet.**

If you're ready for a new adventure in a fast-growing, passionate, international company, **join us**

**PURPOSE**

You will support the Central Procurement category manager with the strategic raw material

portfolio for the starches, fibres and flours category for the European factories of the Solina group.

**GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS**

‐ Prepare and organize negotiations using the new Solina formats (RFV, RFQ, WRAP UP, PA)

‐ Assist the Category Manager in Negotiating contracts and deploy them in various regions

‐ Provide support to mitigate risks in practices (such as single supply exposure and contingency planning)

‐ Monitor the implementation of dual supply and value optimization in different regions

‐ Continuously monitor the market and provide market insights

‐ Manage supplier relationships, including fieldwork presence in sourcing origins

‐ Participate in group audits, generate meeting reports, and follow up on actions

‐ Support the transformation of procurement practices within the regions

‐ Support in increasing central spend and expand the supplier base at the central/group level

‐ integrating new suppliers

‐ Enhance the screening of the portfolio and integrate existing SKUs/businesses from Solina sites

and new acquisitions

‐ Provide support to reach our sustainability targets 2030 (EcoVadis, SAI, SBTI,)

**SKILLS, CAPABILITIES, REQUIREMENTS & KNOWLEDGE**

‐ Degree in procurement plus relevant experience in all areas of major contracting and supply

across multi-site

‐ Adept in all financial metrics

‐ Entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on, action oriented and flexible approach.

‐ Strong analytical skills, excellent communicator and diplomatic

‐ Ability to travel mainly in Europe

‐ You are well organised, design strategic and tactical structures and processes and you know how to

translate them to management level

‐ Fluent English is a must

‐ Basic excel (Pivot table, VLOOKUP etc.)

‐ Negotiation, Strategic sourcing, INCOTERM, Tariff code

‐ Ability to organize your workload with autonomy, ability to work under tight schedule

‐ Change management

‐ Ability to manage transversal project with multi-site implications. Matrix organization previous

experience

‐ Ability to represent the group image towards suppliers

‐ Customer centric mindset

**INITIATIVE**
- Identifies and acts upon opportunities for improvement
- Continuously and constructively challenges the current way of doing things
- Applies lean training to all aspects of their work

**QUALITY FOCUS**
- Strives to attain high standards
- Initiates corrective action where standards are not being achieved
- Sees quality as an integral part of their role
- Enthuses others to work towards quality goals
- Has a wider quality focus than own shift/department

**CUSTOMER FOCUS**
- Understands the effects of their area’s performance on internal and external customers and takes corrective action when appropriate
- Able to talk with knowledge and experience to external customers about aspects of their rol

**TEAM WORKING**
- Builds positive relationships, acts to promote good morale and co-operation within immediate team and other areas of the business
- Knows and understands individuals within own team
- Works with peer group across all areas to tackle issues