Buyer
7 months ago
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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
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