Procurement

• Conduct ongoing packaging category reviews and analysis to identify trends, performance risks, supply chain efficiencies, and market demands.
• Develop comprehensive reports and data-driven recommendations to inform strategic sourcing decisions.
• Maintain a robust database of current and potential packaging suppliers, detailing cost structures, geographical locations, availability, demand, and other KPIs to support decision-making.
• Stay informed on market trends, raw material availability, and external factors (e.g., natural disasters, supply chain disruptions) that could impact packaging supply and proactively communicate these to stakeholders.
• Lead the identification, onboarding, and offboarding of packaging suppliers, ensuring alignment with AG1’s quality, sustainability, and innovation goals.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate supplier performance, driving improvements and ensuring risk mitigation across the supply chain.
• Manage the procurement and timely delivery of packaging samples for evaluation, ensuring they meet product requirements and quality standards.
• Work closely with the Legal and Quality teams to ensure suppliers comply with AG1’s certifications, regulatory requirements, and specifications.
• Ensure packaging supplier diversity by securing backup suppliers and enhancing flexibility in the supply chain to mitigate potential disruptions.
• Collaborate with suppliers to optimize the supply chain, including reducing lead times, minimizing waste, and improving delivery schedules to support production timelines.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align packaging procurement strategies with sustainability goals, quality standards, and cost-efficiency objectives.
• Support Product Development and RNI teams in launching new products and packaging innovations through the stage-gate process, ensuring that supplier selections align with business objectives.
• Facilitate packaging component research and analysis to drive innovation, enabling product development teams to create novel and sustainable packaging solutions.
• Provide internal stakeholders with recommendations on packaging materials, assessing whether to retain, enhance, modify, or discontinue based on performance and market analysis.

Senior Manager, Procurement Packaging – Contract

• Maintain and develop the FAI Procurement Policy, procedures, templates and supporting documentation
• Ensure procurement activity complies with internal controls, governance standards and audit requirements
• Promote transparent, fair and ethical procurement practices
• Monitor compliance through reviews, reporting and spot checks
• Provide procurement updates and reporting to the Finance Director, Procurement Committee and senior leadership
• Lead competitive tender processes for goods, services and works in line with procurement thresholds
• Develop sourcing strategies for significant or high-risk procurements
• Prepare tender documentation, evaluation frameworks, procurement reports and award recommendations
• Coordinate supplier communications, evaluations and cross-functional tender teams
• Maintain complete procurement records and audit trails
• Act as the primary procurement advisor to FAI departments
• Support annual procurement planning and sourcing strategies
• Provide commercial guidance on supplier selection, market opportunities and value-for-money solutions
• Support departments in meeting operational requirements while maintaining procurement standards
• Manage supplier engagement while ensuring fairness, transparency and commercial value
• Support supplier onboarding by coordinating procurement, due diligence and contract documentation requirements
• Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation and strategic sourcing
• Support commercial negotiations and supplier performance reviews
• Facilitate supplier performance reviews with business owners, monitoring agreed SLAs and KPIs where appropriate
• Work with business units to support effective contract management
• Work closely with Legal and Finance teams to ensure appropriate review and approval processes are followed
• Ensure procurement activity aligns with approved budgets, Delegation of Authority and the FAI PO policy
• Ensure procurement documentation supports contract execution and audit requirements
• Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, efficiency and value delivery
• Develop procurement guidance, templates and tools for FAI staff
• Provide procurement awareness and guidance across the organisation
• Deliver procurement training and awareness sessions to staff, budget holders and key stakeholders to promote compliance with procurement policies and best practice
• Maintain knowledge of procurement best practice and regulatory developments

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