Career Opportunities: Manager Indirect Procurement - Sales & Marketing Equipment

Position Overview

In this role you will be a member of our Sales and Marketing Equipment Procurement Team, part of the Sales & Marketing Procurement team, where you will be a key contributor to our mission of optimize procurement costs and processes as well as to ensure quality and security of supply for coolers, fountains, vending, coffee,  spare parts and cold drinks operation services across CCEP territories.

The position takes ownership of a key category, sub category or/and geographical area and is responsible for developing and executing category strategies. The main objectives are to optimise procurement costs and processes as well as to ensure quality and security of supply for all materials and services purchased in the category Sales & Marketing Equipment using the Total Cost of Ownership approach.

Furthermore, this position is responsible to drive CRS developments and improvements through the supply base, supporting CCEP goals, and to identify and deliver category projects to drive cost and CRS benefits.

Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Quality & Customer Service

• Take a leading role in understanding business requirements, supplier negotiation strategy development and negotiation execution
• Optimise supplier performance via the SRM programme, carry out RFIs / RFPs, run negotiations and manage contracts
• Deliver supply agreements in accordance with strategy objectives to ensure delivery of optimum business results
• Drive supply optimization and harmonization initiatives

Financial

• Deliver cost savings through negotiation and realization of cost reduction projects.
• Create and maintain competitive advantage for CCEP through the achievement of lowest possible total acquisition costs.
• Deliver  optimal cost management through accurate and timely reporting and compliance with Contract and Chart of Authority processes
• Accurately forecast and budget pricing for materials and service costs
• Deliver forecasted budgets, ensuring communication of any variance at the earliest opportunity completely with potential business impact.
• Meet or exceed procurement business plan assumptions
• Deliver risk management strategies to mitigate the impact of volatile supply markets

Innovation

• Initiate necessary business decisions to generate operating and financial benefit.
• Develop creative, value focused sourcing strategies and identify new sources of supply
• Enable and exploit supplier innovation of services and products to deliver competitive advantage and cost reduction to CCEP

Sustainability

• Improve Category CRS Performance through increasing level of recyclable/recycled materials, exceeding category material avoidance target and identifying further CRS pipeline opportunities
• Ensure suppliers are approved and comply with TCCC Supplier Guiding Principles

Supply Risk & Continuity

• Develop business plans for all relevant components & services and ensure their implementation in close coordination with other functions (i.e. Supply Chain) and the global Coca-Cola procurement organisation (CEPG).

Regulatory & Social Responsibility

• Ensure transparent communication of procurement figures by use of established KPIs
• Manage exposure to legal action due to intellectual property rights violation
• Act as a central reference point for guidance on best practice for other “buyers” across CCEP.
• Ensure the implementation and respect of CCEP policies and adherence to business standards.
• Establish process to measure compliance and report against company commitments