| We are a multinational food company that conserves the goodness of nature in our products. We carefully select our fruit and vegetables from their origin, maintaining the highest quality and safety throughout the production process. We pride ourselves in providing consumers with natural, healthy, and nutritious products that have made us a reference in infant and adult nutrition. In addition, the Hero Institute of Infant Nutrition is within the Hero Spain facilities. What is our commitment? We are on a mission to delight consumers by conserving the goodness of nature. The world today is different from what it was 10 years ago, and nothing like it was in 1886 when Hero was founded in Lenzburg, Switzerland. However, our core goals remain the same. We have adapted to change, offering consumers high quality, healthy, natural and sustainable food. Hero Spain, with its headquarter in Alcantarilla (Murcia), has formed part of this legacy since 1922. We are committed to naturalness in our products, maintaining a firm nutritional commitment and constantly improving thanks to our commitment to continuous innovation and research, to adapt to the needs of consumers, customers, and new market trends. |
| Funciones y Responsabilidades: |
| Primary responsibilities: • It is a critical group role that owns the end-to-end procurement scope, direct and indirect materials, third party product sourcing, while embedding sustainability in the entire value chain. • It ensures that the function actively partners with commercial teams to enable growth via innovation, manages supply risks, secures in time transparency on market price position, balancing cost and cash. • The role is a critical leadership position that actively facilitates the growth of talents and capability development of the procurement team, driving high level motivation and engagement in the procurement expert team across the group. • The role designs the procurement vision, and strategy that supports and enables the Group strategy and within that the Supply Chain strategy. It drives the transformation of the procurement organisation following the strategy. • The role leads procurement transformation towards a data driven and digital function and owns the digital roadmap. • The role actively facilitates supplier relationships and long-term partnerships, cooperation on supply, savings, innovation and sustainability. • The role is instrumental in driving the sustainability strategy and critical programmes in the downstream value chain, ensuring public commitments on CO2 footprint and compliance are met. • The role is placed in Group Supply Chain as part of the leadership team and works in a matrix structure, guiding, educating and supporting the procurement organisation across all Hero entities. • Reports to: SVP Supply Chain • Works together with: Category teams, Supply Chain leadership team including the sites, Supply Chain finance, Sustainability and IT Essential Duties: • Lead and inspire the expert procurement teams across the spend categories and geographies • Coach, teach and develop the procurement organization • Lead talent development and drive succession plans • Define and implement a cohesive procurement strategy, work with the team to translate it into yearly priorities and objectives • Drive the organisation strategy that mirrors and enables the procurement programme • Own procurement policies and group processes, and drive the continuous improvement of those • Drive procurement technology maturity – design technology roadmap and ensure implementation • Drive active enablement of sustainability in the procurement strategy and supplier management, ensuring delivery of CO2 commitment and compliance • Drive extension of procurement spend coverage in indirect • Own and create cost and market price transparency and regular updates to enable right and in time commercial decision making; Implement monthly commodity coverage steering • Ensure the delivery of targetted net (P&L) savings and lead the cash (DPO) agenda • Ensure transparency on supply availability, manage risk exposure, develop risk indicators • Own supplier relationship strategy and work with the team to establish periodic structured supplier relationship reviews • Improve procurement relationship with the rest of the business |
| Requisitos: |
| Qualification & Requirements: • Excellence in organizational development, building and bringing together cross-functional and cross-location experts. • Can lead and coach individuals and teams for high performance • Strong team player with excellent leadership skills • Excellence in strategic thinking and formalizing and explaining strategy and concepts • Well grounded knowledge and experience in procurement and very good understanding of all other supply functions • Strong drive for results / high performance • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to motivate, persuade and influence all levels and functions |
| Condiciones: |
| We offer a position where you can develop professionally in an international company. We have an open way of working, with short decision lines where people can really make an impact. (Confidentiality is assured) We offer a position where you can develop professionally. We have an open way of working, with short decision lines where you can really make an impact. Benefits: • Hybrid work • Flexible Schedule and early finish on Fridays, also during summer months • Attractive Compensation & Benefits package • Physiotherapist • Continuous learning and development • Ongoing feedback • Collaborative and challenging multinational environment • Strong values • Matrix organization • Open and transparent culture • Great work environment • Amazing people • and much more! |
- Tel.: +34 914760144
- Email: info@aerce.org
VP Procurement
- Sector: Alimentación
- 10/02/2025
- Murcia