Procurement Regional Category Manager, Packaging

8 months ago


Melbourne, Australia Asahi Beverages Full time

Exciting opportunity to join leading beverage company in Australia & New Zealand
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salary, product discounts

**Your Impact**

Reporting to Procurement Regional Category Head of Packaging this role provides end to end leadership and governance over the Category management of Asahi’s Procurement & Sustainability requirements for the Plastics Category.
- To deliver sourcing activities whilst proposing innovative ways to achieve better outcome for Asahi Beverages
- Cost reduction and delivery of budgeted savings
- Improved quality and service level from the supplier base
- Innovation on process/systems to make Asahi Beverages more competitive.

**Key responsibilities**

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- Deliver sourcing activities whilst proposing innovative ways to achieve better outcome for Asahi Beverages
- Cost reduction and delivery of budgeted savings
- Improve quality and service level from the supplier base
- Deliver innovation on process/systems to make Asahi Beverages more competitive
- Design and deploy a new category management framework that supports the all categories.
- Partner with key stakeholders to understand internal business requirements and determine and develop best sourcing and category management strategy.

**About You**

Your experience in Packaging within an FMCG environment will be highly regarded along with the following;
- Demonstrated achievement of improvements within an FMCG supply chain environment with a high analytical component
- Extensive experience in contract management and sourcing
- SAP supply chain experience in transactional and analytical tools highly desirable
- Demonstrated management of customer / supplier relationships in an FMCG environment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- An understanding of change management practices
- Exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills
- Expert knowledge in procurement and continuous improvement practices

**Why Asahi Beverages?**

Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Oceania with a rich and varied history. Comprising some of Australia and New Zealand’s most loved brands, the company’s regional headquarters is based in Melbourne with Asahi Lifestyle Beverages (formerly Schweppes Australia) and Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) business divisions in Australia; and Asahi Beverages NZ, The Better Drinks Co and All Press Espresso in New Zealand. There’s always a great deal going on and opportunities abound for those ready to take them

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