Supply Chain Manager

**Supply Chain Manager**:
**Onsite - Manufacturing Plant in Derimut)**:
**Vista has made the 2024 AFR Top 10 Best Places to Work for the 3rd year in a row**

**Our Team**:
Our Manufacturing teams prototype our products and ensure that what we produce is nothing short of world-class. Whether you prefer mechanics or electronics, our production floors offer some of the most advanced technology in modern manufacturing. Within this innovative environment where teamwork and diverse thinking helps us solve exciting problems, our manufacturing teams are a great place to take your career to the next level.

**Job Purpose**:
This role will be responsible for supplier management, business continuity and sustainability, owning the category procurement strategy and total cost of ownership improvements to achieve Vista targets.

**The Role and Responsibilities**:
**Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Improvement**:

- Plan annual tenders, improvements projects and negotiations calendar aligned with category and BUs’ priority list
- Find opportunities and prepare RFIs/RFQs
- Suggest and implement sourcing strategy
- Implement price negotiations in multiple formats
- Co-lead negotiations award; follow up supplier transitions

**Category Strategy**:

- Co-develop Category Procurement Strategy including:

- Scoping, industry analysis, business requirements, risk assessment, stakeholder mapping, category plan, etc.

**Supplier Management**:

- Identify new potential suppliers
- Review Supplier performance periodically
- Work on Continuous Improvement programs
- Keep supplier engaged with Vista to maximise results
- Coordinate supplier work for quality issues resolution
- Assure NDAs, Contracts and Terms & Conditions are signed and up to date

**New Revenue + Business Continuity + Sustainability & CSR**:

- Support businesses teams to introduce new products
- Suggests alternatives for new products
- Monitor and understand industry trends
- Change materials and suppliers to achieve Sustainability Targets
- Monitor supplier risks and act to mitigate them

**Key Performance Indicators**:

- Understand key performance indicators.
- Input required information in Sievo and assure it is up to date
- Maintain SAP for all procurement SKU’s
- Follow category market intelligence
- Co-develop annual budget
- Be a trusted “go to person” for all BUs procurement needs of the category
- Continuous improvement initiatives, commercial and other relevant topics
- Initiate long and short terms initiatives with suppliers

**Key Skills and Experience for the role**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business administration, financial or technical study
- Minimum of 5 years regional procurement experience preferred.
- Experience in a large international corporate environment with multiple BU’s, operating in multiple currencies and a decentralized management structure preferred
- Analytical skills, good knowledge of business analysis and costing - TCO models
- Basic knowledge of legal documents, able to read and interpret contracts, and involve the legal support, when necessary, through Plant Director
- Experience in Packaging, Graphic Printing or Signage categories

**Key Attributes and Additional Requirements**:

- Leadership skills required to interact with a broad spectrum of experience levels, skills, business levels and communication methods
- Models Vista Behaviours
- Ability to collaborate and interact with team members at different levels, including senior management
- Effective communication skills. Ability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas, verbally and in writing.
- Ability to build trust-based relationships with internal and external partners to effectively influence to provide ideas and support initiatives
- Ability to focus on critical priorities
- Experience working under tight deadlines, with financial targets
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment
- Creative and solution focused
- Standout colleague, able to build trust-based relationships with internal and external partners

**OHS Responsibilities**:

- Adhere to all OHS policies and procedures
- Take reasonable care of themselves and others who may be affected by their actions
- Report all hazards, accidents and incidents immediately to respective leaders and Safety Specialists
- Ensure that personal protective clothing and equipment is worn and used to perform the job safely

**Some of our other Perks**:

- Paid Parental Leave
- Holistic 24/7 Wellbeing support for you and your family
- Paid Wellbeing Leave
- Paid Birthday leave
- Purchased leave
- Salary Sacrifice
- Focused time for learning & development
- Team Discount (65% Off)

**Why You'll Love Working Here**:
There is a lot to love about working at Vista. We are an award winning Remote-First company. We’re an inclusive community. We’re growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make u