Manager, Packaging - Cartons

Job description

Job Description Essential Functions & Responsibilities: · Strategic Sourcing and Category Planning. Develops sourcing strategies for $250MM of Cartons packaging to include overall market, industry and supply base analysis, category and supplier segmentation, sourcing activity facilitation, analysis, negotiations, contracting and implementation. · Support for Departmental Sourcing Processes. Provides spend and market analysis for additional departmental categories outside of individual scope but within department scope. Benchmarks relevant market data to ensure continuous process improvement. · Business and Stakeholder Alignment. Will act as a key stakeholder to the business, while representing packaging procurement’s position. · Project Management. Engages in productivity, cash flow and innovation projects for assigned categories that may be driven by procurement, the Business Unit or another functional area with a focus on overall Total Cost of Ownership. · Supplier Integration/Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Works closely with key preferred and integrated suppliers for respective category areas. This may include active participation in E2E opportunity assessment work for...