United States, Stamford, CT, Purchasing

Senior Purchasing Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 47.000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

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YOUR ROLE

• Assists the Category Team Lead to develop strategy for the entire Category Team spend and to define execution modalities after approval by Decision Committee.

• Ensures full documentation and traceability Supports the Category Team Lead to include systematically into strategy definition end to end cost optimization in full interaction with Global Supply Chain.

• Contributes to deliver bottom line/top line results managing own spend/projects according to yearly/long term planning and upfront target.

• Helps Category Team Lead to document all his/her decision on suppliers Gains and documents sustainably total value chain, industry and supply base insight/knowledge for selected spend.

• Conducts periodical risk assessment and designs and manages adequate countermeasures for selected spend.

• Defines and manages selected sustainable supplier portfolio Selects suppliers; establishes strategic supplier relationship where appropriate and manages it accordingly.

• Supports full delegation of back-office jobs to Shared Service Center and develops best practices for e-sourcing with sustainable results.

• Ensures cross fertilization of knowledge and best practices sharing inside the Category Lead and across Decision Committee.

• Is responsible for periodical progress measurement, accuracy of information and data, in-time delivery, audit conform documentation.

• Proactively steers the agreement portfolio.

YOUR SKILLS

• MBA degree with a minimum of three years related Purchasing experience or four-year college degree with six years of related experience.

• Strong knowledge of good purchasing practices, supply chain management and contract law as it applies to the procurement process.

• Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated flexibility in approach to negotiating based on the situation.

• Excels at stakeholder management and team collaboration with experience proactively engaging customers and suppliers to identify and define potential issues and opportunities; developing solutions that create value.

• Advanced analytical capabilities in Excel is required and SAP experience preferred.

The salary for this role is $120,000.00 - $145,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different races, colors, religions, sexes, national origins, disabilities, veteran statuses, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and other legally protected characteristics.

JOB ID: 24068925

Contract & Job type: Regular - Full Time

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