Manager Procurement Raw Materials EMEA (€400 mio)

In this role, you will be the raw materials procurement business partner of the several EMEA business teams within the Performance Formulation business line. The high impact at topline and bottomline results of raw material conditions causes joined ownership of business results with high visibility. You’ll lead a senior procurement team of 6 fte realizing the best results.

You will be reporting to the Procurement Director Performance Formulations. Location Amsterdam, The Netherlands

What tasks and responsibilities can you expect?

• Lead a team of PR Category Managers to secure commercial excellence across the regions, drive performance improvements within the supply chain and secure that all procurement deliverables within projects are provided on time at a high quality.
• Act as the Business Partner to one or more regional business teams to agree on cost targets, secure alignment between PR procurement activities and BU Business priorities as well as securing a strong communication and collaboration overall with the BU and with the other procurement regions.
• Develop and drive the organization to identify improvement areas, explore cost reduction opportunities and establish a total cost of ownership approach internally and with external suppliers. Actively work to improve commercial terms with suppliers, identify ways to support minimize spending and reduce cost to support the company’s financial objectives.
• Deploy the new category management organization with the relevant tools, metrics and follow up to ultimately establish an efficient supplier management process in collaboration with other procurement regions.
• Lead the regional team to develop the regional organization by setting challenging objectives, provide opportunities for learning, development and personal growth for the teams.
• Work actively with key stakeholders across BUs and within manufacturing, engineering, finance and other functions to build alignment around targets and establish common execution plans to support business growth and profitability improvement.
• Manage the overall budget for the region and develops a yearly planning with key milestones, activities and target settings.
• Represents the Business both inside and outside Nouryon; builds and maintains a network of business contacts in support of organizational objectives; conducts business in a responsible and ethical manner.
• Develops and implements sourcing strategies for product and services designed to support the identified business needs and in line with the Global Procurement strategy following the SSM methodology.

Travel: Frequent Travelling within the region expected

Education
Masters Degree, within Business Administration, Engineering or other relevant area.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence and inspire to change
• Strong focus on value creation and performance management
• Good understanding of external business trends
• Strong analytical skills: highly numerate, structured, organized, and accurate
• Experience in change management and of working in a multinational environment.
• Comprehensive experience in category management.
• Good communication skills with the ability to engage people at all levels of the organization
• Strong negotiating skills and business acumen
• Ability to prioritize efficiently and strong decision making skills
• Highly effective with stakeholder management and capability to build strong relationship internally and externally
• Analytical mind set and excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to resolve conflicts and building organizational alignment
• Proficient with MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Experience

Minimum 10 years work experience of strategic, project and operational procurement of which 5 with direct procurement. +3 years experience of people management ideally in a multinational company.

Language Skills: Fluent in English. Additional languages are an asset.

Nouryon (former AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) provides a wide range of high quality and sustainable ingredients that are integral to numerous key industrial processes worldwide. Thus we serve high profile customers in sectors including paints, detergents, foods, plastics, cosmetics, construction, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, electronics, agro and oilfield applications. Nouryon has € 5 bln revenue, 10.000 employees, three businesses, 67 manufacturing sites and operates in over 80 countries around the world.

Nouryon’s Performance Formulations business is comprised of five business lines – Agricultural Specialties, Home & Personal Care Specialties, Construction Specialties, Industrial Specialties, and Intermediates. The solutions are used by customers of Nouryon to produce countless end use products, including hair gels, skin lotion, beds, sofas, refrigerators, car seats, pacemakers, cement, batteries, asphalt, and crude oil. The products of Nouryon are identified by some of the industry’s best-known brands, including Berol, Armeen, Witbreak NEO, Adsee, Bermocoll and Dissolvine.

If you share the values and ambitions of Nouryon, they offer a fascinating international environment that rewards your skills and enthusiasm. The employment package comprises a competitive salary, 30 vacation days and an attractive bonus scheme. Training opportunities and internal networks enable valuable personal and professional development. And through challenging projects with like-minded people, you will help Nouryon to become first choice for their customers, shareholders and employees, all over the world.