Sourcing Category Leader – M/F – Fixed term Contract

At General Mills, we’ve been making products the world loves for 150 years. With beloved and recognized brands such as Old El Paso, Nature Valley, Häagen-Dazs and Green Giant, our mission is to become the undisputed leader in the food industry in Europe and worldwide.

In a world of constant change, we are looking for people who share our passion, our ambition and who are eager to build the future.

General Mills is the perfect place to give your best, explore new perspectives, reinvent new possibilities and learn from your peers. As a true learning organization, General Mills relies on the people in our organization to become better every day with the goal of winning as a team.

This role is responsible for Spices/ Seasonings/ Sauces, Vegetables, Flavors as well as other smaller raw material categories. You will develop and execute strategies and projects that optimize value creation for our Brands for our regional markets (Europe & Australia). Success in this role is dependent on building strong stakeholder influence, effectively leading supplier relationship management activities, building and utilizing best practices to bring process rigor to strategy execution, and ensuring operational excellence in all produced products.

This role gives a fantastic opportunity to work on a variety of categories of Raw Materials and projects. You will also help the team coordinate communication on market intelligence to provide sufficient market understanding to our stakeholders.It requires an angil mindset as well as an eagerness to learn different areas of Sourcing.

Our Proposal

• Contract : Fixed term contact (7 months from may 2023)
• Profile: Graduate
• Experience : 5-7 years of experience.
• Required tools: Excel, SAP, Business Warehouse
• Language: English required

Your Missions

• Manage following Raw Material categories for our Europe and Australia region: Spices/ Seasonings/ Sauces, Vegetables, Flavors as well as other smaller raw material categories
• Deliver Impactful Sourcing Results – Creating Value (Cost Savings, Cost avoidance, Cash improvement) on your own categories.
• In collaboration with our business teams, create appropriate sourcing strategies that Protect our Brands, Optimize Partnership Value, and Accelerate Innovation.
• Develop and manage the business relationship and appropriate contractual arrangement with suppliers
• Be the day-to-day liaison with suppliers & plants. Assist in resolving disputes, damage or other product claims
• Establish performance metrics and oversee periodic review processes
• Visit suppliers when needed to review processes, establish further relationships, and ensure production and quality needs are being met
• Implement and successfully lead cost improvement initiatives with supplier & key external partner in support of business goals.
• Additionally, support our team in external pricing certification as part of the Egalim Law.
• Support out team in providing market view communications to our business. Setting up decks and preparation for ad hoc communications.

Required Skills/Experience

• Sourcing expertise
• Knowledge and experience in similar CPGs.
• Strong learning agility so that you can quickly on-board new portfolio’s/ businesses.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across various functions both internally and externally.
• Strong project management expertise

Your Assets To Succeed

• Systems literacy; knowledge of web-based applications and database programs
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes.
• Leverages process and people against the greatest priorities with the ability to engage other matrix resources in the development and execution of strategy.
• Knowledge of basic problem solving
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong learning agility
• Resilience
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal abilities
• Strong organizational skills
• Negotiation skills
• Result-oriented
• Displays curiosity

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