Sr. Manager, Indirect Procurement

Wella International Operations Switzerland•New York, NY

66d•$100,000 - $125,000

About The Position

The role of Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement is to create and drive sourcing related activity across all the Wella Brands for the NA region. The senior manager will be responsible for managing projects related to Marketing Materials, Professional Services, HR, Legal, Facilities Management, and Travel. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the design and strategic choices in this area building upon existing strategies and experience while designing and scoping some newly managed by procurement spend segments. Working closely with the Indirect Spend Leader Americas as well as the global indirect spend category buyers you will be implementing new strategies and capabilities in the category strategy design as well as North American Indirect spend across categories. You will engage internal stakeholders to review business needs and spend drivers, support strategic choices on suppliers, spend policies and define the external capabilities needed to deliver value and growth. You will work on simplification and consolidation of business partners to enable stronger supplier relationship management and better capability to support the business. Today these Indirect Categories represent a spend of $100M and over 60 suppliers. You are responsible for driving strategy, savings initiatives and business plans with discipline to deliver the business growth plans as well as the fiscal year objectives and longer-term interventions in the 3-5year horizon. You will create savings and spend insights to support better value delivery, good policy and spend better decisions. You will work to ensure transparency and governance of spend processes and policies globally, sharing findings, savings and enabling new best practices. Wella is committed to improving our Ethical and environmental footprint so you will be expected to work towards this important objective with our external business partners. You will ensure appropriate support and alignment with regional and local teams, R&D, Operations, Marketing, Legal, and Finance in the implementation and execution of the strategy and projects. In all your activities you are acting as a commercial expert to ensure best value and strong stewardship of the company's money to deliver best value. This is an exciting moment to join this team and lead this diverse and important spend segment for the newly established Wella Company.

Requirements

Experience in Procurement, ideally in the Business Services and Marketing Materials spend area, at least 5-8 years
Work experience in an international environment and matrix organizations
Capable and proven track record of stakeholder management including business Leaders (internal and external)
Experience in implementing programs and working with broad group of stakeholders
Experience in working in less mature and 'white space' spend categories
Degree qualified preferably in Business and specifically Marketing or other relevant discipline.
High degree of fluency in written and spoken English is required

Nice To Haves

MBA advantageous.
Strong influencing skills, able to listen and adapt programs to fit business needs
Results oriented individual with solid proven track record in delivering value (cost and cash) and improving effectiveness of sourcing networks
Strategic thinking balanced with ability to execute
Strong analytical skills
Proven Collaboration, Negotiation, Communication skills
Knowledge in executing sourcing of indirect and/or marketing
Knowledge of e-sourcing tools
Able to travel in support of business

Responsibilities

Engage with your stakeholders to understand their needs and refine our strategies to best fit the new company objectives and plans
Design/refine and implement new sourcing strategies and strategic interventions in your category
Deliver fiscal year targets and 5-year value creation and business plans
Implement a robust SRM program and drive YoY improvement in quality, service, talent and value
Enable the use of new tools to make sourcing simpler and more efficient
Support business plan to improve ethical and sustainable sourcing practices
Implement governance and control including contractual agreements and policies
As a great communicator you will be able to connect the teams across procurement to support the NA business needs
Develop capability and manage programs to deliver maximum efficiency and value to business
Design and implement processes and tools to support local sourcing activities in countries without Procurement resources on the ground
Engage and influence stakeholders in Category Strategy definition and implementation
Motivated to continue personal training and development in procurement best practices and skills