Raw & Pack Sourcing Manager

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Raw & Pack Sourcing Manager

As a Raw & Pack Sourcing Manager you will ensure optimal supplier selection for Egypt’s Raw and Pack categories, focusing on cost, quality, innovation, and sustainability. The role involves developing long-term sourcing strategies, managing supplier relationships, driving savings initiatives, and aligning with global and regional procurement teams to meet business objectives.

About the job

As a Raw & Pack Sourcing Manager, you will be doing the following activities:

• Source for local suppliers in compliance with Danone standards for Quality, Supply, competitiveness, innovation, and Sustainability

• Work closely with the Global Procurement Team, to align on top level commercial strategies.

• Manage Egypt Raw and Pack categories.

• Prepare Raw and Pack category buying strategy for 3 years

• Engage with regional teams to understand business and regional needs, forecast and demand and provide them with Egypt needs.

• Collaborate with other buyers and support execute procurement strategies. • Develop and drive category savings initiatives aligned with business objectives. • Create & evaluate market facts and trends (market intelligence).

• Provide a fact-based understanding of current supply base and intelligence on contracts terms.

• Develop and execute multi-year unique commodity procurement strategies. • Identify and select suppliers, negotiate pricing and terms and conditions for categories. • Design and manage the Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Quotation workflow as needed to support business objectives.

• Lead negotiations with suppliers.

• Manage supplier relationships (SRM) with key strategic suppliers and develop playbooks to define the working relationship. Drive delivery of best-in-class performance. • Engage in dispute resolution and conduct regular and disciplined client engagement for continuous improvement processes.

• Deliver documented savings from bid processes, negotiations, and innovative savings opportunities to meet business requirements and procurement organization objectives.

• Monitor monthly and yearly forecast per material.

• Manage communications with suppliers and serve as key point of contact for Danone businesses on contractual matters.

• Secure new Raw Materials through to first industrial deliveries (risk analysis, negotiation, capacity monitoring)

• Manage R&P category reporting in terms of budget; productivity; quality notifications; spend; SPR; Innovations and local versus global spend • Support in implementing R&P process

• Maintain suppliers and commodity strategies in the appropriate databases.

• Reference and integrate the new suppliers, by applying the Danone Selection Criteria

• Resolving price discrepancies

• Seeking out savings opportunities while maintaining quality standards

• Participating in storeroom physical inventory

• Ensure the alignment between R&I and Operations on the Category sourcing strategies

• Lead Internal and External Benchmarking

About you

• 3-5+ years of buying experience.

• Excellent verbal and writing skills.

• Strong negotiation, organization, and management abilities.

• Ability to effectively interact with and influence people at all levels and varied cultures within and outside of company.

• Ability to balance short-term vs. long-term needs, company vs. supplier needs.

• Detail oriented, demonstrated analytical capabilities.

About us

Danone’s mission is bringing health through food to as many people as possible, and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power of people have to impact the world through daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food. And healthy food needs a healthy planet, and this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

What we offer?

We believe everyone has talent, something which comes natural to you. Your uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energizes you.

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