Raw and Packaging Sourcing Manager

Job Purpose:

Sourcing Managers are responsible for ensuring that the company selects the most appropriate suppliers based on price, quality, delivery times and services support. They must also take their customers' interests into consideration.

About the Job:

• Work closely with the Global Procurement Team, to align on top level commercial strategies.
• Manage Egypt Raw and Pack categories.
• Prepare Raw and Pack category buying strategy for 3 years
• Engage with regional teams to understand business and regional needs, forecast and demand and provide them with Egypt needs.
• Collaborate with other buyers and support execute procurement strategies.
• Develop and drive category savings initiatives aligned with business objectives.
• Create & evaluate market facts and trends (market intelligence).
• Provide a fact-based understanding of current supply base and intelligence on contracts terms.
• Develop and execute multi-year unique commodity procurement strategies.
• Identify and select suppliers, negotiate pricing and terms and conditions for categories.
• Design and manage the Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Quotation workflow as needed to support business objectives.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers.
• Manage supplier relationships (SRM) with key strategic suppliers and develop playbooks to define the working relationship. Drive delivery of best-in-class performance.
• Engage in dispute resolution and conduct regular and disciplined client engagement for continuous improvement processes.
• Deliver documented savings from bid processes, negotiations, and innovative savings opportunities to meet business requirements and procurement organization objectives.
• Monitor monthly and yearly forecast per material.
• Manage communications with suppliers and serve as key point of contact for Danone businesses on contractual matters.
• Secure new Raw Materials through to first industrial deliveries (risk analysis, negotiation, capacity monitoring)
• Manage R&P category reporting in terms of budget; productivity; quality notifications; spend; SPR; Innovations and local versus global spend
• Support in implementing R&P process
• Maintain suppliers and commodity strategies in the appropriate databases.
• Reference and integrate the new suppliers, by applying the Danone Selection Criteria
• Resolving price discrepancies
• Seeking out savings opportunities while maintaining quality standards
• Participating in storeroom physical inventory
• Ensure the alignment between R&I and Operations on the Category sourcing strategies
• Lead Internal and External Benchmarking

- Have 3-5 years of experience in direct materials purchasing.

- Able to gather market insights, benchmarking & negotiating.

- SAP user.

- Have a full understanding on the procurement process.

- Strategic mindset.

- Strong Stakeholder Management

- Great communications skills.

- Strong negotiation, organization, and management abilities.

- Detail oriented, demonstrated analytical capabilities.