Manager, Category Procurement – Films Specialties
Amcor
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Prague • Czechia
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About the role
- Develop deep expertise in sub-categories of special films
- Build strong, strategic relationships with suppliers
- Ensure an uninterrupted supply of high-quality goods at optimal Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Deliver sustainable business results across supply assurance, cost, quality, service, and innovation
- Support the development of Category and Supplier strategies and drive successful implementation
- Work closely with key stakeholders to develop effective sourcing strategies
- Track and report savings and monitor TCO improvement
- Assess and manage risks across the Purchasing category
- Enhance relationship with suppliers to realize cost saving potentials
- Manage negotiation process and outcomes
- Build rapport with suppliers and collaborate with relevant departments
- Develop budgets and targets based on realistic goals
- Provide periodic and ad hoc reporting and forecasting on performance against plan
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in purchasing
- Relevant experience in a company with a mature purchasing organisation
- Potential to develop further into a business position
- Experience in market and benchmark analysis at a broad level
- University degree
- Experiences in the selection of suppliers – in inquiry and/or negotiation
- Appropriate application of the market analysis tools – industry analysis (Porter model) and supplier analysis – and a demonstrated understanding of the cost drivers in their markets
- Experiences in the selection, preparation and execution of commercial agreements, relevant to the materials items being sourced
- Demonstrated understanding at an operational level, interacting with other functions
- Effective participation in multi functional work – projects cross-functional teams in an international environment;
- Working knowledge of company information and data systems used by Purchasing
- Understanding of key administrative systems that impact Purchases and suppliers
- A result oriented and hands on individual
- Purchasing technical skills, confirmed capability in each of the Key Sourcing Skills
- Mastery of tools, such as: develop and implement Sourcing Strategies, apply Policy, run Inquiry, conduct Negotiation, Benchmark, draft and execute commercial agreements and forecast
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
purchasingmarket analysisbenchmark analysissupplier selectionnegotiationcommercial agreementscost driverssourcing strategiesreportingforecasting
Soft Skills
relationship buildingstrategic thinkingcollaborationrisk managementresult orientationhands-on approacheffective communicationcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingbudget management