Packaging Sourcing Specialist, SSA

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

This is an exciting role where you will learn to use market insights and data analysis to work with different partners to start and shape new market trends. You will support the development and execution of sourcing strategies for spend categories and support the continuous improvement and standardization of the strategic sourcing processes.

How you will contribute

You support spend category teams to develop and execute sourcing strategies for specific spend categories. To excel in this role, you interact with cross-functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics (for example, conducting "make or buy" analyses). You also generate insights from bid events, prepare supplier negotiation materials, support project execution and supplier relationship management, and drive controls and compliance.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

• Procurement
• Data Analytics - ability to analyze and visualize large amounts of data
• Supply market analysis experience preferred
• Project management
• Negotiating, influencing and building collaborative relationships

What you need to know about this position:

The Sourcing specialist works in cooperation with the global & Regional Spend Area teams to support the development and execution of sourcing strategies and practices for Flexible Spend Area. The key activities include interaction with cross functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics, generating insights from bid events, preparing supplier negotiation materials, supporting project execution and supplier relationship management, and driving controls and compliance. Sourcing specialist acts as a point of interaction between the global and Regional Spend Area teams and the global and Regional Sourcing Analyst Pool.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Education / Certifications:

• 5-7 years of experiences in business, ideally within Procurement and/or Supply Chain.
• Experience of managing through multi-functional and multi-cultural projects and teams, preferred in FMCG.
• Business acumen and Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Remote Work Environment.
• Target setting & results oriented.
• Ability to manage projects and teams.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.
• Experience of working in a multicultural teams and environment.
• Team Player; ability to support and lead to achieve common goals.
• Strong Communication and Presentation skills.
• Problem solving: Proactive and resourceful in solving problems, offering innovative and practical solutions in dynamic environment.

Job specific requirements:

Lead AMEA Flexible packaging strategy development and implementation for specific countries within MENAP and SSA:

• Analyze regional spend data and understand the business needs.
• Provide regional market analysis and supplier insights to maximize opportunities from market.
• Develop sourcing strategy which can bring value to the business, including but not limited to productivity, cash, innovation & sustainability.
• Achieve Best-in-Class E2E productivity in supply chain while maintaining supply assurance with acceptable quality and service level.
• Drive improvement of WAPT and DIOH with collaboration of internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Lead supplier performance evaluation process, and developing appropriate action plans in alignment with internal stakeholders.
• Support global/regional sustainability team in building global/regional/country level sustainability target and execution plan.
• Work closely with Regional Finance team basis the PNOC process for cost management, be able to provide right assumption on market intelligence to business for better market leverage.

Lead AMEA Flexible RFPs and its execution at regional and local areas:

• Communicate sourcing strategy and get alignment with regional and local cross functional stakeholders in terms of RFPs expectations and potential outcomes.
• Prepare and plan for specific process to be handled for regional and/or local RFPs.
• Define the supplier negotiation strategy at country, and/or regional level.
• Incorporate business needs into RFPs and drive benefit for cost, cash, innovation and sustainability.

Lead contract implementation and drive contract compliance as per Procurement policies:

• Work in close collaboration with local BU procurement team to ensure local implementation of new contracts, and extended value generation to increase operation service level.
• Coordinate contract implementation tasks with regional and local Procurement operations and users.

Support supplier relationship management and risk management:

• In line with defined Procurement strategy, support classification and categorization of suppliers, including definition of supplier evaluation and audit policies.
• Continuously track supplier performance to meet OTIF / RFT target.
• Lead supplier development activities, set-up cross functional review meetings with suppliers in order to improve performance and innovation projects.
• Drive BCP and ensure dual source where possible to decouple single source risk;
• Collaborating with local stakeholders for supply issue management and risk mitigation.

KPI's / Dimensions:

• Topline business target on NPD, Innovation and Sustainability;
• Cash improvement & YoY productivity;
• Supplier performance in quality and service level;
• Risk management and compliance
• Support business plan on sustainability

Work schedule:

• Standard Business Hours

No Relocation support available

Mondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes, Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls candy.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Regular Sourcing Procurement