Procurement Lead Sacea

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.**

In this role, you are the single point of contact for local leaders in a specific geographic or plant location. You manage the interactions between business stakeholders and sourcing teams and collaborate across the manufacturing, supply chain and the commercial business. You also manage the local implementation of regional and/or global projects.

**How you will contribute**

You will execute the daily procurement agenda by acting as the single point of contact for the procurement function at a site, in a country or country cluster, and will oversee the daily interaction with plants, supply chain, commercial teams, quality assurance, sourcing teams and suppliers. You will also deliver service-level targets by ensuring material availability, escalating when needed, and support business continuity planning implementation, activating when needed, support the execution of sourcing projects and execute sourcing/spot-buying or contracting activities as agreed with the accountable spend areas, and own the source-to-pay process compliance key indicators and take corrective action when necessary.

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

- Procurement
- Communication and interpersonal skills that help you be proactive and manage stakeholders
- Problem solving to ensure timely resolution of challenges
- Customer service orientation
- Working well under pressure, managing multiple priorities, dealing with ambiguity, and the willingness and ability to learn

**More about this role**

**Purpose**:
The role of the IM&S Procurement Lead is to act as a point of contact towards the internal customer in SACEA Cluster for Procurement related questions, support local purchasing requests in collaboration with the Spend Area management organization, and manage efficient contracts implementation and acceptance on site, related to one or several sites. Works with business, end users, or Master Shoppers in given countries acting as valued and trusted Business Partner. Works with global or regional Spend Area teams to implement contracts locally and to provide local specifics on demand or requirements. Works with suppliers as needed and partners with the Regional Procurement Center (RPC) to enable spot purchases. Provides support to and coaches Master Shoppers, as needed. Ensures regulatory compliance for all processes in scope.

**Key Job Responsibilities**:
**Day to Day Operational or Project Management responsibilities**:

- Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for the Procurement function at a site, country or country cluster ensuring business needs are translated and inouted into procurement strategies.
- Facilitate or form a link between the local users or Master Shoppers and the Procurement organization.
- Diffuse and ensure the respect of the Procurement procedures.
- Guarantee efficient use of the purchasing systems by all users providing them assistance when necessary.
- Build up solid information sharing and collaboration routines with local Supply Managers to facilitate effective cross-functional interactions for direct materials.
- Act as first escalation point for local business users or Master Shoppers related issues and drive resolution in line with regional and global Procurement policies.
- Verify purchase request quality if contacted by Regional Procurement Centre (RPC), align with end users or Master Shoppers on missing specifications, check e-sourcing feasibility and provide info or contact the Regional Procurement Centre (RPC) to assign Spot Buyers to work on purchase request execution.
- Coordinate local contract implementation tasks with Spend Area teams.
- Coordinate and participate in the execution of the contract implementation plan.
- Prepare and execute training for the end users.
- Promote the use of global or regional contracts.
- Lead the phase out of the old contracts and procedures.
- Know the ethical and legal compliance responsibilities of the position.
- Upon request by the Procurement Centre or Spend Area Manager during the sourcing process provide input on local spend situation and Spend Area practices.
- Gather local internal customers’ requirements.
- Provide insights on local supplier market.
- Identify with stakeholders any local legal requirements that necessitate an adaptation of the contract.
- Support local supplier qualification assessment.
- Support the development of the contract implementation plan.
- Support initial and on-going spot buy reduction initiatives locally.
- Provide support and necessary local contacts during initial spot buy reduction exercise.

**Knowledge, Skills, Experience required**:

- Relevant Tertiary Degree in Business, Economics or Supply chain
- Master's degree, MCIPS is advantageous
- Minimum 4 years of Procurement practi