Procurement supervisor

Landsberg Orora started in 1947, with the philosophy that everything begins and ends with the customer. Today, with locations across North America, Europe and Asia, Landsberg Orora is a market leader in designing custom packaging solutions and supplying a broad range of commodity packaging and stock packaging for our global customers.

At Landsberg Orora, we take pride in powering innovations in packaging while ensuring sustainability is fundamental to everything we do.

We believe our packaging touches lives and together, we, together as a team, deliver on the promise of what’s inside. From custom packaging design and packaging materials, to prototype development and manufacturing, packaging automation and equipment, kitting and fulfillment, global sourcing, and full service warehousing and logistics, our packaging consultants develop cutting-edge, innovative solutions that take a product from concept to consumer.

It is with this passion and commitment to innovation, we believe in hiring and developing the very best talent by living our core values of Teamwork, Passion, Respect, and Integrity every day.

These core values define who we are and how we operate. They shape the way we work with each other, with our customers, and with our communities.

Every day, we deliver packaging solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations while solving complex problems as a team.

Leadership is not tied to a job title, i.e. you don’t need to be accountable for a team to be considered a leader.

The Role : Procurement Supervisor

Position Summary

Supervises the work of sourcing, planning, buying and expediting to assure all Company policies and work standards are achieved.

Working with their regional procurement team to ensure all standardized

purchase order management and material management procedures are being followed.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists with negotiating purchase agreements and prices with vendors.
• Working with Category Managers to maintain supplier relationships.
• Provides assistance and product information to procurement teams and sales.
• Assisting procurement team with contacting vendors to verify product availability and to obtain price quotes.
• Responsible for administering company policies to co-workers through direction of Regional Purchasing Manager.
• Assists with purchase order management.
• Responsible for new hire onboarding and procurement training.
• Initial escalation point for vendor compliance issues, quality control and overall vendor performance.
• Assists Regional Procurement Managers in duties where deemed necessary.
• Review objectives and collaborate across business units with Customer Service, Warehousing, Sales, Quality, etc.
• Assist with identifying vendors, with collaboration from Category Managers, to satisfy customers’ objectives.
• Reports on all activities will be done monthly and submitted to Regional Procurement Manager.
• Performs other duties and / or responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience :

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred or a minimum of 5 years of experience in Procurement & Distribution Environments
• Must have a minimum of 3 years of packaging product knowledge and must be familiar with terminology of the trade.
• Demonstrated competence in all facets related to procurement.
• Knowledge of the packaging industry and corresponding markets.
• Ability to confidently navigate through SAP.
• Excellent computer skills

Any equivalent combination of related education and / or experience may be considered.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

• This position requires the ability to demonstrate the following competencies : Business Mastery Integrated Leadership People Development Change Management Intellectual flexibility & technical acumen

Last updated : 2024-05-12