Procurement Category Manager

**Position Title**:Procurement Category Manager - Logistics ANZ

**Position Type**: Temporary - Full-Time

**Position Location**:Melbourne

**Requisition ID**: 36278

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

**About the role**.**

The Procurement Category Manager - Logistics will lead the sourcing strategy for the category, working on cost optimization, and driving supplier relationships. Use your expertise to make an impact and meet business goals.

This is a 12-month maternity cover opportunity.

**What you’ll be doing.**
- **_Strategic Sourcing and Category Planning: _**_Own the sourcing and contracting strategy for all categories, from industry analysis to implementation. Provide category insight and expertise through understanding of costs, cost drivers, market, industry and supplier variables._
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Sustainable Cost Advantage Delivery:_**_ Drive initiatives focusing on overall cost optimisation for the categories. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute initiatives and build a pipeline of opportunities._
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Business and Stakeholder Alignment: _**_Enhance stakeholder engagement and satisfaction through ongoing communication and participation in leadership teams. Strengthen ties to sourcing strategy and supplier relationships while collaborating with ANZ sourcing teams._
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Spend Governance:_**_ Lead and improve sourcing processes to enhance productivity and meet quality and service needs. Manage supplier contracts according to policy guidelines and ensure compliance with procurement procedures._
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Supplier Relationship Management_**_: Manages supplier relationships to drive innovation and value for McCain through effective sourcing. Leads discussions on long-term goals and performance, ensuring suppliers understand McCain's value stream and meet contractual obligations through regular check-ins._
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AOC Budgeting: _**_Works with finance and stakeholders to manage category budgets and ensure contractual commitments, while being accountable for productivity, innovation, and cash flow goals._

**What you’ll need to be successful.**
- Undergraduate degree in finance/economics/logistics or similar.
- 5+ years of Procurement experience, ideally within the FMCG industry.
- Experience in Freight & Logistics buying on a Local basis, ideally in buying like categories.
- Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate, build strong working relationships, and influence change within a business.
- Can point to success in realizing significant savings for the business.
- Strong decision-making skills with the ability to handle tight deadlines and many competing priorities.
- Strong quality assurance orientation.
- Experience with SAP and Excel ideal.

**About the team**.**

This role reports to the Head of Global Ocean Freight and Cold Storage Procurement and is based in the Melbourne Head Office. This role requires close collaboration cross functionally with the Supply Chain team, as well as the wider procurement team.

**About McCain**.**

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

**Leadership principles**.**

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

**The McCain experience**.**

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
- 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._
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**Job Family**:Procurement
**Division**:Global Procurement
**Department**:Global Ocean Freight
**Location(s)**: AU - Australia : Victoria : Melbourne

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