Regional Category Buyer Mktg, Media, HR

Company Description_
JDE is a subsidiary JDE Peet’s, the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands. For more than 265 years, JDE has been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. Today, JDE unleashes the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries, through a portfolio of over 50 brands including L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona._
- What’s it like to work at JDE?_
- We are proud of our passionate, driven associates that challenge the status quo and pursue mastery in everything they do. Our goal is simple and ambitious - JDE: A coffee & tea for every cup._
- At JDE, we're Made to Stand Out. Every day we are progressive in outlook, ambitious in nature, resourceful in action and decisive in approach, bringing coffee and tea moments to everyone around the world._

**Job Description**:
As the Regional Category Buyer for Marketing, Media, HR & Professional Services, you will have a critical position within the Procurement team. Leading Local Buyers, you will be addressing a rapidly growing spend in the Marketing, Media, HR & Professional Services portfolio. The core goals will be to lead the way to expected margin targets, manage a variety of different stakeholders who will be working with you very directly and closely, to develop and empower the Local Buyers, and to mature the category overall and prepare for future growth.
**Key responsibilities**:

- Create, gain business wide support for and implement category sourcing plans that quickly deliver tangible results.
- Build effective relationships engaging with stakeholders across functions and country business units that maximise value and drive continuous improvement.
- Identify and prioritise 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 Global categories, working closely with Global Procurement Team and execute strategies in APAC region, put them in place for all portfolios and align with internal stakeholders.
- Define and implement category strategies & targets for Regional categories, lead execution and track benefits realization.
- Establish and analyse performance metrics in order to evaluate supplier performance.
- Manage Marketing, Media, HR & Professional Services supplier selection process], negotiate & contract key suppliers and administer contracts.
- Manage supplier risk assessment (scanning via official tools and databases, financial assessment, etc.)
- Manage and improve key supplier performance and support quality audits to deliver (non-) financial benefits.
- 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.
- Manage transitions to key suppliers.
- Establish and maintain portfolio of strategic agreements and key supplier relationships to manage risk in procuring Marketing, Media, HR & Professional Services (i.e. pricing, supply, quality, etc.).
- Oversee high level risk management activities (and gain risk management expertise) for respective category areas.
- Contribute to cost price calculations based on market and product knowledge.
- Understand the physical manufacturing process, including visiting plants to ensure guidelines are being followed, to deliver optimal goods & services to production plants.
- Manage supplier selection for Marketing, Media, HR & Professional Services.
- Ensure compliance to internal policies & procedure and has a deep understanding of and manage compliance to the Combined Business Model.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor degree/MBA or equivalent.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience.
- An excellent track record of delivering “best in class cost and cash results”.
- Successful experience of leading cross functional teams that focus on the lowest total cost of ownership as a key target.
- International experience in global companies (ideally FMCG)
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Ability to thrive with ambiguity, change and minimum processes and systems.

Additional Information
- Passionate, energetic & innovative work culture
- Outstanding Career Development Opportunities
- Flexibility with working hours
- The best coffee and tea served all day in our office - or be your own Barista