Senior Buyer, Procurement, Liquids & Prepress North America

Amcor•Evansville, IN

20d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Buyer, Procurement – Liquids & Prepress North America will lead strategic sourcing and category management for key materials including solvents, waxes, starch, hazardous waste, and energy curing inks, managing an annual spend of approximately $90M across North America. This role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that ensure uninterrupted supply, optimal cost, and high-quality performance. The Senior Buyer will work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive Total Cost of Ownership improvements, deliver sustainable business value, and support procurement excellence through reporting, data analysis, and collaboration across Amcor’s global network.

Requirements

Highly proficient in data analysis and manipulation using Microsoft Excel.
Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in procurement / strategic sourcing of relevant categories
Relevant experience in a company with a mature procurement function
Experience in market and benchmark analysis at a broad level
Excellent negotiation skills, problem solving ability and strategic thinking ability.
Excellent communications skills.
Demonstrated category expertise and sourcing/procurement experience
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Nice To Haves

Innovation process experience considered advantageous

Responsibilities

Strategy Development and Strategy Implementation
Contribute to the development of the overall procurement strategy and translate the procurement strategy into concrete action plans
Work closely with the Technical Procurement Manager Liquids & Prepress NA and other key stakeholders to develop and implement effective sourcing strategies for the relevant category in order to ensure quality of services and improve value to Amcor
Evaluate market and competitive conditions and use as a basis to review Category strategies and sourcing activities
Work closely with Site Management to ensure that the needs of the Sites are effectively represented in the Procurement Strategies
Manage the supply base across the Categories. Leverage Category spend across regions as appropriate
Monitor integration of Procurement in core business processes
Follow procurement best practices and ensure consistency with all Amcor requirements and standards
Identify trends and/or issues that need improvement within the Category accounts
Assess and manage risks across the Categories while developing and contributing to a risk strategy for the Categories together with mitigating actions.
Negotiation
Enhance the relationship with suppliers in an innovative way to maximise value
Manage negotiation process, content and results. Lead the negotiation team to deliver the desired outcomes
Relationship Management
Build strong rapport with suppliers and obtain access to supplier senior management
Establish cross-functional teams to negotiate and implement improved operational and commercial supply outcomes for the business and customers
Collaborate closely with Technical CPM Liquids & Prepress and relevant departments to ensure understanding and compliance with procurement strategies
Guide relevant departments to the correct supplier relationships that will help ensure maximum value will be delivered to Amcor.
Financial Planning
Develop budgets and targets based on aggressive, well founded, realistic and forward oriented goals
Ensure that financial resource allocation is cost-effective and aligned with strategic and operational plans
Build an accurate forecast for Category price movements
Track and report savings, support procure-to-pay process improvement within the Category area, monitor TCO improvement as well as working capital improvement using the tracking tools in place
Provide periodic and ad hoc reports and forecasts on performance against plan and potential in following up on KPIs and reporting on trends

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans
Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees
Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location
Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program
Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits
Paid Parental Leave
Retirement Savings Plan with company match
Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)