Saica Flex Procurement Coordinator

Mission: Establish strategic thinking in all procurement activities. Maximize savings while fostering long-term relationship with suppliers. Drive the organization towards a virtuous dynamic to be ahead of the market and rollout best practices across the business unit.


Roles & Responsibilities

Ensure Compliance to company guidelines, procurement policies and procedures.

Orchestrate sites in order to agree and foster accountability to maximize savings.

Teaming up with the Sites across the Business Unit in order to define, agree, roll out and follow up Procurement Plan.

Prepare information and follow up actions within the Procurement Steering Committee. Prescribe strategic lines.

Follow up supplier OTIF and Lead Times. Agree action plans in case of underperformance and challenge the sites and suppliers to stick to SLA.

Follow up and define concrete actions on Site KPI underperformance. Help them to achieve their goals. Benchmark suppliers and sites on KPI

Coordinate and align the adoption of procurement best practices across sites for all manufacturing direct-related materials, helping the sites to keep proper stock levels to meet Demand and minimize the ageing stock.

Perform market analysis to understand context and trends. Forecast these conditions and prescribe actions to anticipate challenging the organization

Be up to date with suppliers and materials existing in the market

Act as a gluer between Sites, Suppliers and corporate departments, RD&I, Quality, Controlling, on procurements processes, new projects & activities.

Support the Supply Chain Directions in the proactive Identification, Analysis and Rollout of enhancements in existing flows of its functional scope aligned with Flex process framework. Identify & Foster best practices.

Reporting. Provide analysis on costs and review cost reduction activities, prepare reports and updates when required. Diligent in the quality and timing of the reporting, responsible of function-related periodic reports.

Contact suppliers to resolve quality, delivery, disputes or other issues.

Team up with sites to help them on local suppliers to negotiate the most suitable conditions.

Academic Qualification: University Degree, Master Degree in Supply Chain or in Business Administration

Experience: 5 years of successful procurement experience from the industrial sector, preferably on the flexible packaging industry.

- Proven track record of delivery in a KPI-driven complex multinational environment

- P&L oriented decision-making mind set to optimize H&S savings

- Proven talent in supplier negotiations and networking

- Solid knowledge of Procurement to Pay process landscape

- Communication and interpersonal skills. Capability to foster strong & long term supplier relationships

- Solid knowledge of supplier and materials management under ERP preferably in SAP

- Experience in contract negotiation and cost management