Британский шоколадный бренд Barry Callebaut приглашает Head of Sourcing Russia and CIS.
Responsibilities:
Be responsible for all raw material buying activities of 3 plants and trading business in Russia.
Lead the team of 6 including raw material buyers, procurement Admin and trading sales manager.
Defining their tasks, setting the strategy, monitoring the performance, coaching and developing the team. Work with other Russia functional heads to drive the total success of business.
Оwn country financial KPIs like margin improvement, cash flow, trading business, etc.
Work with global team to analyze the cocoa, dairy, sugar, fats&oil international and local markets to identify trends and opportunities to define the best strategy to cover commodity
Actively search for internal and external benchmarks to compare the prices and to improve the purchase conditions; Set up the purchasing strategies guided by VP Sourcing EEMEA
Evaluation and selection of the suppliers, negotiation of terms for major purchases; commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) that are in the organization’s best interest. Planning new supplier audits with QA, participating and realizing them in a defined period.
Manage local supplier relationship to get best value.
Planning (based on sales forecast), negotiating and executing purchasing of raw materials, including risk management, administration involved and pricing updating/controlling (RPS). Аssist Product Development and R&D teams in sourcing required components from preferred and new suppliers to develop new product.
Liaise with functional or operational area leads (for example in sales, production, or engineering) to understand their current and anticipated demand for goods and materials and develop plans, cost estimates, and schedules for integrating these needs into existing purchasing activities
Preparing reports for supplier evaluations and improving supplier performance by tracking and giving feedbacks to suppliers
Support to customers and salespeople when needed considering market intelligence and raw material price negotiation
Co-operation with logistic department considering stock utilization, raw material flow
Lead trading business on fats and cocoa to generate margin and manage customer relationship
Driving activities, program on sustainability and meet company forever chocolate sustainability commitment. Report on performed actions on a monthly basis
Ensure compliance to purchasing processes and contracts.
Requirements:
Bachelor / Master in Business Administration, Supply Chain, logistic or similar
3-5 years of relevant work experience
MS Office
Fluent in English and Russian
Excellent communications skills with analytical thinking ability
Proactive.