Procurement Manager

Company: Prince Perelson & Associates
Location: Salt Lake City
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Procurement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create, enhance, and deploy statistical and analytical models using both structured and unstructured data to inform growth decisions and strategies across our significant Direct Materials portfolio.
  
• Lead advanced analytics to assist categories with category strategy development, cost optimization, data analysis for large sourcing initiatives.
  
• Manage and analyze KC's current and historical spend data to support construction of category strategies that will drive a competitive advantage for KC.
  
• Design, develop and deliver on simple to complex clean sheet models, TCO models and pricing models to assist categories to understand the opportunities and hence drive a negotiation advantage for KC.
  
• Identify and pursue continuous improvement opportunities on category-specific tools and processes such as price/cost database maintenance, RFX templates.
  
• Creating standard work, documenting best-practices, contributing to internal training exercises and reviewing third-party benchmarking studies.
  
• Support category leads during planning, development and deployment of sourcing events.
  
• Utilize eSourcing platform both as an end user, a system administrator and an organizational trainer.
  
• Collaborate with Global & Regional Category Managers to execute strategic sourcing events, onboard & train users in global Procurement, create and maintain training and standard process documentation.
  
• Build and update reports/scorecard for all global categories incorporating key metrics such as quality performance, service, innovation and spend.
  
• Lead or heavily support RFX activities for categories, providing clear guidance and structure to the process as well as leading the analysis of supplier proposals.
  Supportive, not stifling. Cooperative, not disruptive. Sound good?
  
  Our encouraging and supportive environment will bring out the best in you. A safe, positively-reinforcing workplace like the one we cultivate has been shown to reduce stress, lift morale, and help strengthen performance. Here, you'll feel safe to expand to be your full self. We welcome and respect the diverse backgrounds that make each of us who we are. We appreciate the perspectives that each person brings and offer opportunities to all. When you shine, we'll be here to recognize and reward. Apply today.
  
  Qualifications:
  
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain/Procurement or Business Admin.
    
  • 5 or more years' experience with minimum of 3 years procurement experience.
    
  • Extensive experience and knowledge with advanced excel as well as experience with other data tools: Tableau, statistical tools, SQL, etc.
    
  • Exceptional analysis experience in which key findings have been translated into strategies to support business needs and management of quality.
    
  • Demonstrated ability in hypothesis building, advanced modeling and regression analysis.
    
  • Proven written and oral communications skills in which you demonstrated effectiveness in a variety of formal presentation settings.
    
  • Sound business acumen.
    
  • Successful application of problem-solving methodology and innovative solution development.
    
  • Led and delivered on multi-disciplined, multi-regional projects and demonstrated use of change management tools and methodology.
    
  • Experience in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry would be seen as an advantage.
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