Local Category Buyer (1 year contract)
Jacobs Douwe Egberts
- Johor Bahru, Johor
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understand business requirements;
- Manage various sub-categories with the support of Regional Buyers in Malaysia;
- Develop sourcing strategies for local country, put them in place for all portfolios and align with internal stakeholders;
- Use of sophisticated pricing models (roll-out to regions);
- Be ready to integrate new business in recently acquired companies;
- Conduct negotiations with suppliers;
- Lead innovation projects.
- Identify and priorities opportunities to deliver total cost of ownership savings in your categories and drive the implementation of the plans to capture those opportunities.
- Proactively manage supplier relationships to deliver cost & cash results, to drive continuous improvement and position JDE as a customer of choice
- Measure and benchmark performance to ensure that JDE has the most competitive cost base in your category.
- Drive innovation programmes in your category to continually search for cost saving opportunities, new technologies, new products and new suppliers that contribute to the overall strategy of the business.
- Contribute on sourcing strategies development for Regional categories, working closely with APAC Regional Procurement Team and execute strategies in local country.
- Define category strategies for Local categories, lead execution and track benefits realization
- Establish and maintain portfolio of strategic agreements and key supplier relationships to manage risk in procuring.
- Manage supplier selection for Local categories, negotiate & contract key suppliers and administer contracts; PO creation.
- Manage supplier risk assessment (scanning via official tools and databases, financial assessment, etc.)
- Establish and analyses performance metrics in order to evaluate supplier performance.
- Keep oversight over set of contracts within category and ensure contract compliance considering payments terms, prices, discounts & rebates and performance in close collaboration with business.
- Understand the physical manufacturing process, including visiting plants to ensure guidelines are being followed, to deliver optimal goods & services to production plants.
- Ensure compliance to internal policies & procedures,have a deep understanding of and manage compliance to the Combined Business Model.
- Maintain purchasing records/data and pricing in the system.
- Identify and capitalize on opportunities to improve the organization's buying patterns and supply channels.
- Monitor changing trends in price and availability of coffee, understand the complexity of the market (fundamentals and technical) and ensure proper reporting on financial performance and risks to internal stakeholders.
- Maintain and develop good working relationship with worldwide customers and suppliers.
- University Degree (Bachelor).