Sourcing Manager - Packaging Materials Mgmt

DHL (Deutsche Post)•Westerville, OH

47d•Hybrid

About The Position

Responsible for the development of sourcing and savings strategies to support the packaging Materials Management strategy while ensuring we have a sustainable supply chain to support the business. Will use your strong procurement and analytical experience to comprehensively diagnose the procurement needs of each customer to build a road map for strategic sourcing solutions while building and strengthening relationships with clients and vendors as well as ensuring solutions are developed and delivered on time and against operational and financial business targets. Additionally, has responsibility for establishing and maintaining packaging materials management supplier relationships and measuring supplier performance against key metrics. This includes responsibility for all sourcing and contract management strategies and activities, delivering the strategic vision and goals of the business and ensuring execution of all common sourcing strategies including supplier management, quality, utilization of sourcing tools and reporting, with a strong focus on cost savings activities.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Print Management, Supply Chain, Materials Management, related field or equivalent 4 years work experience, required
8+ years of industry experience and deep understanding of print, display manufacturing and operations and a clear understanding of the materials marketplace required
Minimum 5 years Strategic Sourcing, Negotiating and Contracting required
Development of supplier sourcing strategies required
Have excellent MS Office skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
Knowledge of packaging materials manufacturing and procurement required
Have in-depth knowledge of display production cycle, including Warehousing, Fulfilment and Distribution required
Project management experience required
High proficiency in Microsoft's suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, and Project) required
Strong analytic skills required
Have strong organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task, and a flexible, logical and proactive approach required
Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to the given audience and influence outcomes. Can present information in a clear and concise manner required

Nice To Haves

Have experience of ISO/ISR audits and audit procedures preferred
Experience developing processes, systems and tools to drive efficiency preferred
New business start-up experience preferred
Operations background preferred
Oracle and MRP tools experience preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the supplier contracting process and negotiations in partnership with DHL legal contract team to include pricing, volume, and rebate negotiations
Develop, execute, and monitor packaging materials supplier relationship management program
Ensure continuity of supply through the development of excellent supplier partnerships ensuring full awareness of Business Continuity plans.
Enables materials supplier management through a robust category strategy and aligned contractual structures. Collaborates on critical supplier oversight, securing compliance to contracted terms and relevant socially responsible regulations and policies.
Ensures standardized sourcing process is consistently implemented and followed
Drive value across the packaging spend categories through the creation of category strategies and continuous execution of the category strategy
Develop and execute a supplier segmentation sourcing strategy for spend categories that will drive measurable improvements in the areas of customer satisfaction, compliance and cost benefits.
Conduct RFP's for new and existing business, analyze data and develop recommendations for packaging materials and customer specific solutions
Clearly understand the spend and demand landscape, leverage market intelligence & industry knowledge, drive collaboration and accelerate execution, resulting in the best available value across the packaging supply chain, quality, service levels, innovation, and cost parameters.
Use spend data analytics, market research, benchmarks, and cost modeling to identify and leverage high value opportunities that deliver innovative and sustainable value including growth and margin improvement, operational efficiencies, and risk mitigation to the business
Develop and delivers clear, concise, and well-structured written and oral communication to clients, team members, account leadership and senior management around sourcing strategies and recommendations
Identify metrics, technology tools, and processes to optimize sourcing and supplier activities.
Identify the needs for continual process improvement and innovation across sourcing, contracting, and analytics; developing a standard of metrics using benchmark data to assist in measuring sourcing performance against goals and industry best practices
Resolve any major materials supply chain or supplier issues that arise.

Benefits

We offer competitive wages, excellent affordable insurance benefits (including health, dental, vision and life), 401K plan, paid vacation and holidays.

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