Senior Buyer, Procurement, Liquids & Prepress North America

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Job Description

About the role

The Senior Buyer, Procurement - Liquids & Prepress North America will lead strategic sourcing and category management for key materials including solvents, waxes, starch, hazardous waste, and energy curing inks, managing an annual spend of approximately $90M across North America.

This role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that ensure uninterrupted supply, optimal cost, and high-quality performance. The Senior Buyer will work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive Total Cost of Ownership improvements, deliver sustainable business value, and support procurement excellence through reporting, data analysis, and collaboration across Amcor's global network.

Key Job Accountabilities

Strategy Development and Strategy Implementation

• Contribute to the development of the overall procurement strategy and translate the procurement strategy into concrete action plans
• Work closely with the Technical Procurement Manager Liquids & Prepress NA and other key stakeholders to develop and implement effective sourcing strategies for the relevant category in order to ensure quality of services and improve value to Amcor
• Evaluate market and competitive conditions and use as a basis to review Category strategies and sourcing activities
• Work closely with Site Management to ensure that the needs of the Sites are effectively represented in the Procurement Strategies
• Manage the supply base across the Categories. Leverage Category spend across regions as appropriate
• Monitor integration of Procurement in core business processes
• Follow procurement best practices and ensure consistency with all Amcor requirements and standards
• Identify trends and/or issues that need improvement within the Category accounts
• Assess and manage risks across the Categories while developing and contributing to a risk strategy for the Categories together with mitigating actions.

Negotiation

• Enhance the relationship with suppliers in an innovative way to maximise value
• Manage negotiation process, content and results. Lead the negotiation team to deliver the desired outcomes

Relationship Management

• Build strong rapport with suppliers and obtain access to supplier senior management
• Establish cross-functional teams to negotiate and implement improved operational and commercial supply outcomes for the business and customers
• Collaborate closely with Technical CPM Liquids & Prepress and relevant departments to ensure understanding and compliance with procurement strategies
• Guide relevant departments to the correct supplier relationships that will help ensure maximum value will be delivered to Amcor.

Financial Planning

• Develop budgets and targets based on aggressive, well founded, realistic and forward oriented goals
• Ensure that financial resource allocation is cost-effective and aligned with strategic and operational plans
• Build an accurate forecast for Category price movements
• Track and report savings, support procure-to-pay process improvement within the Category area, monitor TCO improvement as well as working capital improvement using the tracking tools in place
• Provide periodic and ad hoc reports and forecasts on performance against plan and potential in following up on KPIs and reporting on trends

Qualifications/Requirements

• Highly proficient in data analysis and manipulation using Microsoft Excel.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in procurement / strategic sourcing of relevant categories
• Relevant experience in a company with a mature procurement function
• Experience in market and benchmark analysis at a broad level
• Innovation process experience considered advantageous
• Excellent negotiation skills, problem solving ability and strategic thinking ability. Excellent communications skills.
• Demonstrated category expertise and sourcing/procurement experience
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

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Our Expectations

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• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees
• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location
• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits
• Paid Parental Leave
• Retirement Savings Plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)