Diversey’s mission is to protect and care for people through leading hygiene, infection prevention, and cleaning solutions. We develop and deliver innovative products, services, and technologies that save lives and protect our environment. Over the course of 100 years, the Diversey brand has become synonymous with product quality, service, and innovation.
Our fully integrated suite of solutions combines patented chemicals, dosing and dispensing equipment, cleaning machines, services, and digital analysis. We are a trusted partner serving more than 85,000 customers in over 80 countries with a network of approximately 8,500 employees globally.
We are looking for a proactive and strategic Packaging Procurement Manager. This role fulfills a manager position on the European packaging procurement team. The ideal candidate will play a key part in driving forward sustainability initiatives across packaging portfolio.
Areas of responsibility:
- Strategic sourcing – Develop and execute cost advantaged strategies to procure packaging materials for Europe
- Supply Market Expertise – continuously monitor supply and demand dynamics in key packaging materials (rigid containers, corrugate, flexible labels, pouches, secondary packaging, etc.). Understand buying position in the market vs. our competitors, as well as supplier positions and negotiations power
- Cost Savings - generate new ideas and execute on those ideas to deliver cost reductions in line with the specific targets. Engage suppliers on pricing and supply related issues for new product quotes, volume transfers and/or cost savings projects.
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) – partner with internal R&D and supplier technical experts to improve life cycle cost of our packaging (minimize waste, maximize product performance, re-use packaging instead of repurchasing where applicable, etc.)
- Product Supply - Manage intermittent supply issues and support planning organization to ensure supplier performance and compliance
- Innovations Support – Support new project initiatives from the business, attend team functions and provide input, engage suppliers to help team understand potential costs and design/cost implication, engage larger Supply Chain functions when necessary, execute startups.
- Communications - Develop appropriate communications to advise business of supplier performance and supply issues.
- Sustainability – work closely with Diversey’s corporate sustainability and strategy office to develop ESG targets related to packaging, as well as execution plans and strategies
Education/Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in packaging engineering or supply chain, engineering, chemical engineering or related field
- MBA preferred
- Knowledge of packaging categories, knowledge of European and global packaging supply market
- Strong analytical skills, ability to work with data analytics function and drive insights from data analysis
- Basic understanding of packaging related commodity indexes (HDPE, LDPE, PP, paper, wood and metals related industry indexes or price tracking mechanisms)
Experience
- 3+ years of work experience in procurement, packaging category management, supply chain
Leadership Capability:
- Drive for Results - Communicates persuasively to win support, leverages understanding of key business drivers in own area to get results
- Collaborating & Influencing - influences others through reasoning and relationships and understands how to operate in a matrix organization and use networks appropriately to get things done
Functional Capability:
- Strategic Sourcing, contract management
- Analytical thinking: ability to quickly analyze data and transform it into meaningful insights.
- Commodity Risk Management and supply continuity
- Communications & Negotiations
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status.
As an equal employment opportunity employer, Diversey provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to be considered for any position to be filled unless the accommodation would pose an undue hardship. Should you require a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the hiring process, please contact our Human Resources Department at hrquestions_us@diversey.com.
