What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Procurement Manager position at Multi-Color U.S.?
Multi-Color offers a wide
range of rapid career growth opportunities and has been in business for over
100 years as a global leader in premium label solutions.
Additional offerings
include:
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits - medical, dental, vision, company paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and more.
- 401K with company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee engagement and wellness programs
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays - 10 paid holidays a year with no waiting period
- Paid training and certifications
- Employee led safety and community involvement teams
- Top of the line equipment
- Clean, Climate controlled environment
- Stability and security for your future
Position Summary details include:
As a leader, identify and execute cost savings initiatives, build supplier relationships, ensure continuous supply of materials and services while managing working capital for your assigned region of 3 to 5 plants. Collaborate with global category managers and plant organization stakeholders on specific category strategies to provide the lowest cost of ownership solution, while providing high quality materials and services. Oversee working capital initiatives through collaboration with plant organization and supplier base.
This role will have direct and indirect reports and will require some leading through influence.
Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Provide input to the Global category managers for the region, regarding specific plant requirements during the sourcing and strategy development stages.
- Lead implementation of cost savings initiatives for the region including ongoing monitoring after implementation, to ensure achievement of cost savings for the region.
- Identify initiatives for the region to reduce costs and improve services and quality received by the supplier base for material and services.
- Monitor supplier contractual terms for the region to ensure compliance, including company policy, service, quality, and volume commitments.
- Be the main point of contact for the review and approval of regional supplier contracts.
- Be the main point of contact as the escalation point for supplier issues for the region to ensure continuity of supply, to support plant requirements.
- Ensure regional working capital targets are met by monitoring processes within procurement to minimize aged raw materials and support initiatives to reduce carrying costs related to inventory levels.
- Monitor processes and controls for compliance and collaborate with other region procurement management teams for continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with regional procurement management team to develop dashboards, metrics, and measure to identify areas of improvement for each region.
- Communicate regularly with internal customers as to the results of the dashboards and metrics.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with suppliers and internal customers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Business or related or equivalent
- Minimum of five years of purchasing experience in manufacturing preferred. Label industry is a plus.
- Experience using an ERP computer system to plan and procure materials as required
- Proven strong communication, negotiation, analytical, and project management skills required
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision in a fast paced environment
- CPM certification is a plus.
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).
Other details
- Pay Type Salary
- Required Education Bachelor’s Degree