Procurement Manager

Overview

INEOS Pigments values its employees and offers a wide range of career opportunities. The Procurement Manager leads strategy and execution for sourcing strategic raw materials at the Ashtabula Complex, including INEOS KOH, and at INEOS Tyssedal, Norway. The role focuses on effective sourcing strategies for economic efficiency, supply assurance, and product quality, managing bulk chartering and ensuring proper inventory levels of key raw materials such as titanium ore, chlorine, coal, calcined coke, and potash.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Behavioral Safety Principles, Life Saving Rules, and Process Safety Principles.
• Owner of over $300 million in strategic raw materials and bulk logistics sourcing, identifying aggregation opportunities and creating impactful programs for spend leverage.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop sustainable sourcing strategies across categories for quality, value-cost optimization, supply security, plant reliability, and business continuity.
• Cultivate and manage supplier relationships internally and externally, ensuring performance expectations are met and productivity targets achieved.
• Influence alignment and commitment to financial targets and category strategies across functional and business unit levels, identifying profit enhancement opportunities.
• Lead sourcing initiatives, negotiations, and supplier selection in responsible categories, aligning with business objectives.
• Develop strategies and negotiate major global business agreements to achieve commercial advantage, manage working capital, and mitigate risk.
• Lead annual budget development for strategic raw material spend, provide spend outlooks to Finance, and communicate deviations to top management.
• Maintain awareness of category markets, cost drivers, and economic trends to guide strategy and represent the organization externally.
• Identify, recommend, and develop alternative sources of raw material supply, ensuring technical alignment and commercial optimization.
• Manage inbound logistics to meet operational needs, reduce costs, and maintain working capital targets; explore alternative logistics solutions.
• Execute bulk logistics sourcing strategy.
• Support initiatives of the INEOS Pigments Group Procurement Director and INEOS Group Procurement.

Level of Education & Experience

• Minimum bachelor's degree in engineering or business applications.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of procurement experience, with 5 years of globally traded feedstock and marine bulk shipping experience, ideally within chemical/process or allied industries.
• Demonstrated strong operation, finance, and strategic planning knowledge in building category strategies.
• Strategic sourcing experience preferred, especially in the TiO2 industry and bulk chartering.
• Experience in leading negotiation of supply agreement terms and driving supplier service level improvements.
• Experience establishing logistics strategies and plans for major inbound raw materials.
• Minimum 5 years of contract/commercial experience.
• Proven experience in global sourcing, global logistics, and contract development and execution.
• Proven negotiation skills and market dynamics analysis.
• Working knowledge of the TiO2 process preferred.
• Working knowledge of global logistics market, shipping modes, and legal requirements for supplier agreements.

Technical Skills

• Vision and insight in business and the ability to translate into tangible commercial advantages.
• Solid understanding of fiscal budgets, forecasting, and control of operational expenses.
• Strategic mindset with deep functional knowledge of procurement practices.
• Knowledge of procurement best practices and industry standards.
• Ability to apply concepts of business systems, team dynamics, strategic planning, and performance measurement.
• Experience with financial modelling and analysis.
• Working knowledge of SAP and BI tools.
• Analytical and evaluation skills for complex assignments.
• Proficiency in spreadsheet design, PC-based modelling software, and graphical presentations.

Benefits

Our Ashtabula, Ohio Complex consists of two plants just south of Lake Erie and has over 45 years of manufacturing excellence. INEOS Pigments offers a competitive salary, an annual bonus, comprehensive benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short‑term and long‑term disability (with buy‑up options), basic life & AD&D insurance (with buy‑up options), and a 401(k) with company match.

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