• Job Description

  Req#: 55050

  Overall Responsibility

  Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) operate 23 metal production facilities in 9 countries, employing 5,000+ people and have global sales of approximately $4.0bn.

  The position holder is accountable to support sourcing Plant Equipment, Tooling and Spares with a range of $100-$200m. This role is responsible for supporting and implementing the sourcing and category management initiatives in the region, internal stakeholder engagement, engagements with suppliers (e.g. SRM process). The position holder reports to the Category Procurement Manager, Capital Equipment and Tooling, and a functional reporting line to the Global Category Director - Plant Equipment, Tooling and Spares

  Strategy

  • Help create and implement Procurement strategies that are innovative, cost-effective, and incorporate the growing complexities and challenges within industry
  • Build long-term relationships with vendors in the industry
  • Within the framework of the global category strategies, support negotiations and tenders for regional category aspects. Liaise with Ardagh Glass when appropriate.
  • Support development of category benchmarks, challenge and champion continuous improvement and value engineering
  • Ensure supply chain monitoring capabilities are developed to secure supply at the right cost and working capital.
  • Support the regional contract management for category through effective deployment of all agreed terms and conditions and TCO initiatives.

  Operational Management

  • Support negotiations and tenders in Capex Sourcing
  • Compare bid proposals for price and specifications
  • Negotiate with vendors to reduce costs, improve cash, reduce demand and improve our CO2 footprint
  • Review contract specifications on behalf of the company
  • Communicate with vendors to ensure product arrives in a timely fashion and in full
  • Support transformational activities to build procurement organizational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency
  • Prepare weekly and monthly procurement reports
  • Provide input and influences the use and development of key e-tools e.g. contract management, spend and transaction reporting
  • Execute as an active partner by providing innovative solutions
  • Drive the development of new market opportunities, new ways of working by integrating new technologies (digital etc.)
  • Identify, develop and manage strategic business relationships to enable implementation of Ardagh’s strategy, revenue growth and new product development initiatives

  Internal Stakeholder Management

  • Ensure proper business partnering with other relevant functions such as Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical, Quality, Finance, & Global Category Directors.
  • Actively drive and enlist business partnering support for Procurement initiatives
  • Clearly articulate implications of changes in category landscape towards internal business stakeholders
  • Master change management for the business unit through concise execution and communication

  General

  • Ensure the execution of key internal controls within the area of responsibility
  • Manage suppliers ensuring compliance and best in class commercial value (cost and cash) and world class supplies
  • Identify opportunities and solutions for ‘buying better and buying less/spending smart’ by working in close collaboration with the budget owners
  • Permanent market research, identification of new challengers but as well supplier development with the objective to create more competition
  • Ensure adherence to all safety, health, and environmental rules and regulations
  • Demonstrate engagement towards the Ardagh core values “Trust, Teamwork & Excellence” through upholding our standards of business conduct, leading by example, compliance with Group policies & procedures and ways of working

  Key Deliverables

  • Successfully deploy within region, the category strategy to strengthen the organisation’s competitiveness, sustainability compliance and the fit-for purpose product portfolio
  • Support Sustainability initiatives with the supplier base
  • Manage and benchmark supplier performance on continuity, contingency, quality, service, value and financials.
  • Identify, quantify, and deliver opportunities and levers for value optimisation and sustainability targets in collaboration with engineering, finance, quality and operations.
  • Implement solutions for transformational value creation as captured in the category strategies and the contractual terms and conditions with the suppliers.
  • Provide clear Real Time visibility on price and working capital within the category.

  Tactical

  • Create and maintain requisitions/purchase orders in SAP
  • Update costs for open purchase orders
  • Support in setting up new vendors
  • Support in maintaining vendors information
  • Support in reconciling invoice discrepancies

  Education / Training

  • Bachelor’s degree

  Experience and Cometencies

  • A minimum of 3 years work experience in procurement, category management and/or supply chain.
  • Experienced in ideation and delivery of procurement initiatives addressing technical, financial and sustainability advancements
  • Proven ability to work in a cross-functional team in a multicultural organization
  • Solid experience working in a virtual team
  • Solid financial market and business acumen
  • Proven negotiation skills
  • Stakeholder management and project execution skills
  • Effective communication and influencing skills, ability to convince and persuade others
  • Ability to think globally and act locally, combined with strategic direction and flawless operational execution
  • Problem solver with a strong analytical mindset
  • Resilience and ability to prioritize when facing conflicting demands and high workload
  • Excellent MS-Office skills
  • SAP skills

  About Ardagh Metal Packaging

  Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading supplier of sustainable and infinitely recyclable beverage cans to brand owners globally. A subsidiary of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is an industry player across Europe and the Americas with innovative production capabilities. AMP operates 24 production facilities in nine countries, employing more than 6,300 employees with sales of approximately $4.7 billion.

  AMP is 75%-owned by Ardagh Group and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMBP.

  About Ardagh Group

  Ardagh Group operates 65 metal and glass production facilities in 16 countries, employing more than 21,000 people with sales of approximately $10 billion. Ardagh Group produces:

  · many of the cans and bottles that contain your favourite beverages.

  · packaging made from metal and glass – permanent materials that can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality.

  · more than 160 million containers per day.

• About the company

  We are a global leader in glass and metal packaging solutions for the world’s biggest consumer brands. We operate 109 facilities across 22 countries.

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