Amcor Rigid Plastics
Procurement Director, Polyolefins, Additives & Technology
Ann Arbor, MI
Amcor is the world's largest publicly traded packaging company; a market and innovation leader adding value to the world's most recognizable brands.
•Amcor, with $9.1 billion in sales (FY 2017), is a global leader in responsible global packaging solutions supplying a broad range of rigid and flexible packaging products into the food, beverage, healthcare, home and personal care, and tobacco packaging industries.
•Amcor offers exclusive and innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the packaging industry.
•Today, Amcor has more than 35,000 co-workers working together across 200 sites in more than 40 countries.
•We are: Global, Customer-driven, Innovative, Responsible and Talented.
•Listed as one of the top 50 companies in Fortune Magazine's "" report. (2017)
Position Overview:
Continuously reduce the total cost of ownership, enable revenue creation, and secure supply for the Polyolefins, Additives & Capital Technology, MRO Categories for Amcor Rigid Plastics (ARP) Olefins manufacturing processes. Establish strategies and lead initiatives that will enable the implementation of strategic procurement objectives in the assigned areas of spend while working closely with various other operational/functional roles and locations.
Responsible for driving best performance for resin, additives, capital equipment and services in line with Amcor's strategic objectives and assuring compliance with customer related and regulatory requirements regarding the Amcor supply base.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
Senior individual that provides leadership for assigned category, capital equipment and services and cross functional point teams. Need to participate as member in other cross functional point teams and steering committee stakeholder groups to align and implement common strategies for assigned categories including Polyolefins, Additives & Capital Equipment, MRO and Services. May participate as member in other point teams and steer stakeholders towards the common strategies for assigned categories/capital equipment and services. Point team member(s) may or may not be reporting to Procurement Category Director for Polyolefins, Additives & Capital Equipment, MRO and Services.
Strategy:
•Assume leadership role in the development and deployment of global Polyolefins, Additives categories & Capital Equipment, MRO and Services strategies that align with the BG and BU's overall procurement strategy.
•Guide and collaborate with stakeholders towards the common categories/capital equipment and services strategy.
•Design KPIs, track progress and adjust strategies to ensure continual improvement of Cost and Supply Base performance.
•Optimize total cost of ownership, revenue enablement, and capital budget attainment by leveraging fact-based elements, i.e. supplier price breakdown, including processing cost obtained either through internal calculations, external benchmarking, market driven pricing, etc. to support the assigned categories/capital equipment and services strategy execution to meet ProcurePlus business objectives.
•Define, collaborate and execute negotiation strategy, negotiation schedule and supplier selection criteria to support the assigned categories/capital equipment and services strategy execution to meet ProcurePlus business objectives.
•Conduct Strategy reviews and adjustment in line with Amcor's strategies and ProcurePlus business objectives.
•Identify supply risks to supply/cost and develop plan to mitigate risks.
Leadership:
•Develop a point team with a broad range of commercial, technical and organizational skills to ensure high leverage in supplier selection, approval, negotiations and performance management.
•Develop supply base and sourcing staff performance measurements/metrics and plans and manage results to meet targets and report progress.
•Engage with functional/operational stakeholders and other subject matter experts to ensure sourcing strategy is aligned to and capitalizes on supplier's technology/product roadmaps to drive innovation.
•Overall responsibility for identification, evaluation and the approval process of new suppliers that meet Amcor performance standards and compliance requirements. Drive cross functional teams including but not limited to Quality, Operations, Functional and Engineering in this undertaking.
•Leverage current supply base or identify new suppliers to support new product launches / initiatives.
•Develop Global/Regional Contracts and/or Make vs Buy Refresh cycle or outsourcing opportunities
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