Procurement Assistant
Simply Business
Senior Director, Procurement – Metals Packaging
The Coca-Cola Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- This position will be responsible for the development and execution of Metal Procurement strategies for the The Coca-Cola’s Cross Enterprise Procurement Group (CEPG) – with a specific focus on EMEA.
- Deliver results supporting the System’s profitable growth while maintaining a robust/reliable supply network.
- Lead and influence internal stakeholders to implement Metal strategies on a regional basis, while through collaboration w/ team capture our global buying power of our system.
- Assess current and future business environments to determine if changes in objectives are required.
- Develop Global Procurement Business Plans through leadership and ensure regional alignment and understanding of Business Needs.
- Develop and execute negotiation strategies that deliver value against Coca-Cola System business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers.
- Analyze complex business issues associated with contract negotiations using industry analysis and The Coca-Cola Company's historical experience to make business recommendations that mitigate risk.
- Analyze industry trends to proactively identify supply base issues to minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities that benefit the Coca-Cola system.
- Lead Supplier Relationship Management partnerships that generate business specific objectives and execute against objectives to generate shared value between organizations, that include continuous cost optimization for the Coca-Cola System.
- Proactively contributes to the development/implementation of CEPG’s sustainable global strategies for Metal Packaging.
- Influence key stakeholders in the bottler system and within the Coca-Cola company up to the SVP/CPO levels.
- Lead a matrixed team of procurement and technical personnel from the bottling community on projects.
- Influence suppliers' manufacturing processes, technology decisions and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations by leveraging the volume of the Coca-Cola system.
- Build alignment with internal stakeholder groups of the sourcing strategy and procurement process for products/services to identify business needs and to ensure compliance with operational standards.
- Develop relationships with management of strategically important global and regional suppliers to support and enhance the supply strategies of the KO system.
- Influence global suppliers to address critical supply issues that could cause business interruption if not resolved expediently.
- Support regional bottlers teams w/ metal related issues.
Requirements
- Establish productive relationships and work collaboratively with a highly diverse cultural and functional internal and external stakeholder groups, e.g. Bottlers, Suppliers, TCCC leadership, legal, R&D, Marketing, TCCC Business Unit technical and business leadership, etc…
- Build and develop relationships with peers and others to exchange feedback on product/service issues, identify and/or solve problems, assess needs, and/or achieve business results.
- Take continuous action to improve one's own knowledge, development and skills, and demonstrate an ability and passion to quickly learn industry specific fundamentals and value creation levels.
- Determine priorities for one's area of accountability to create clarity about focus and enable work to be completed efficiently.
- Establishing Strategic Direction: Creating a clear view of the destination for the business; helping others understand how and why things need to be different; building commitment and inspiring action toward the destination.
- Leading through Change: Communicates the need for change and a compelling vision of change; makes decisions and priorities consistent with change objectives; takes responsibility for the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace.
- Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.
- Metal Packaging and/or Procurement: Knowledge of manufacturing processes and standards.
- Coca-Cola System Knowledge or similar Fortune 500 company: Operational awareness and experience (preferred) of supply chain functions.
- Negotiation skills.
- Experience with a defined sourcing model, (The 7-Step Sourcing process preferred).
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills – including w/ senior suite executives.
- Stakeholder management skills.
- Category specific Sustainability knowledge and passion.
- Contract negotiation.
- Cost Modelling.
Benefits
- We believe a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
- Supporting the financial and personal well-being of our employees.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
negotiation strategiescontract negotiationcost modelingsourcing modelsupply chain functionsmetal packagingbusiness analysissupplier relationship managementrisk mitigationdata analysis
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillsleadershipcollaborationattention to detailstrategic directionchange managementrelationship buildingproblem solvingcontinuous improvement
