Category Manager, Packaging

5 months ago

Melbourne, Australia McCain Foods (Aust) Pty. Full time

**Position Title**:Category Manager, Packaging & CoMan

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**:Melbourne

**Requisition ID**: 23277

We know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. At McCain, our purpose is to celebrate real connections, through delicious planet-friendly food, with those that are important to us.

With a vision and plan to build a best-in-class procurement team across the business in its entirety, the need has been identified for a new thought leader and business partner to join the team. The role will contribute and lead the development and execution of both local and occasionally regional buying strategies for the business. The role will lead the sourcing strategy for the segments to deliver sustainable cost savings programs for the business. The role may have local accountability as well as supporting specific regional strategies.** **The role will have responsibility for packaging (corrugate, cartons, poly, trays and film) co-manufacturing.

**About the role**

Strategic Sourcing, Category and Risk Management
- Own the sourcing and contracting strategy for all categories including market and industry analysis, category and supplier segmentation, sourcing activities, risk management, analysis, negotiations, contracting and implementation
- Provide deep category insight and expertise through understanding of costs, cost drivers, market, industry and supplier variables

Sustainable Cost Advantage Delivery
- Drive initiatives focusing on overall cost optimisation for categories being managed
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to execute initiatives and build a solid pipeline of opportunities

Business and Stakeholder Alignment
- Establish ongoing communication and process to ensure high levels of stakeholder engagement, participation and satisfaction
- Participate in stakeholder leadership teams for respective functional areas to build and maintain ongoing linkages with sourcing strategy, category management, supply base design and ongoing supplier relationship management

**About you**
- A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in the fast-moving consumer goods industry in sourcing packaging and co-manufacturing on a Regional/Global basis and/or multi-countries or multi-plant basis at a minimum
- Background in negotiating with major packaging suppliers, should-cost modeling, commodity insight, and contract price mechanisms. Strong preference for experience in sourcing like categories.
- Project Management skills in managing Sourcing, Sustainable Cost Advantage, Value Engineering (SCA/VE), Emergency projects, and ensuring RACI in place
- Proven track record of successfully influencing and/or influencing change within a business

**What’s in it for You?**
- Opportunity to be a part of a global iconic brand, fun & high performing team
- Flexible working though a hybrid model
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Pioneering, innovative and dedicated development programs
- Education Assistance Programs
- Opportunity to Chip In and give back to the community as part of our paid volunteer program each year

**If you’re looking for your next challenge and want to get behind an organisation that celebrates real connections, then this is your role**

LI-RS1
- McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger._
- McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs._
- Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the _Global Privacy Policy_

**Job Family**:Procurement
**Division**:Global Procurement
**Department**:ANZ Directs
**Location(s)**: AU - Australia : Victoria : Melbourne

**Company**:McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.

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