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Friesland Campina: Head of Marketing Procurement in Amersfoort, Netherlands
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Head of Marketing Procurement
The global procurement team consist of around 300 professionals that operate as one team to deliver business value across all of businesses and regions. The function, with an annual spend of ~EUR 5bln., is in the midst of transforming to an hybrid model combining expertise and scale from central Category teams, proximity and excellence in execution from local Business Procurement teams and transactional efficiency and support from regional Procurement Operations & Excellence teams.
Responsibilities:
- Category Management & Sourcing Strategy: Create, review and manage successful integrated category strategies, aligning business goals and customer requirements with supply market capabilities. Identify, develop and coordinate relevant category procurement projects & solutions in line with the category strategy.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Develop and maintain relationships with key and strategic suppliers to facilitate strategic partnerships leading to innovations, sustainability, and increased value. Maintain a deep understanding of market trends; actively implement procurement best practices to drive value and superior service.
- Efficiency & Effectiveness:Drive efficiency and effectiveness through cost transparency, measurement solutions, tail-spend solutions, integrator solutions and structured source-to-pay buying channels.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain good relationships at both tactical and strategic level and seek alignment on strategies, roadmaps and program management activities. Key stakeholders are found in HR, IT, R&D, QA and General Business leadership.
- Team development: Build a best-in-class Marcom Procurement team through external hiring, internal development & coaching.