Buyer, Procurement (Drunk Elephant)

Job Summary:

• Lead the Americas Direct Procurement for the Drunk Elephant brand- $20MM
• Drive costs savings through the regions, collaborating with the Brands financial organization to ensure alignment.
• Drive change through the region to meet the needs of the business
• Deliver year over year cost savings that improve the gross margin of the brands.
• Improve working capital to increase free cash flow
• Prepare the organization for the future needs of the consumer, whether it is skills, tools, or systems.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Lead category segmentation and develop strategies for all products and services to allow for further classification and analysis.
• Identify categories to benchmark historical performance and forecast future price movements, communicating necessary adjustments to plan.
• Work with business partners to identifying supplier partnerships through activities such as implementing alternative suppliers, alternative services and category innovation.
• Lead RFX efforts, negotiation of supply agreements and commercial agreements where needed.
• Manage and support new launch activity through quotations and lead time, onboarding of new suppliers, capacity analysis, quality concerns, etc.
• Work on new innovations in the category.
• Work with functions to develop global strategies and create synergies across the organizations
• Work with business partners to create and execute strategies for the category.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop processes and tools.
• Develop annual cost savings, cash improvement, lead time improvement and action plans to deliver the corporate objectives for year over year improvement.
• Develop and monitor the use of appropriate KPI’s to measure and improve the effectiveness of the key elements of the procurement organization.

Working Relationships/Key Stakeholders:

• Marketing/Product Development
• Direct Procurement
• Suppliers
• New Product Development
• Quality
• S&OP

Financial Accountability 

Help the department manage approximately $20 MM USD spend across current suppliers and work with new suppliers to qualify them in our supply chain

Qualifications & Competencies: 

• 4-year academic degree, MBA a plus
• Prefer procurement certificates.
• Minimum of 2-4 years’ experience operating in a procurement role, ideally in cosmetics/consumer goods industry.
• Competent user of computerized IT systems – Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other associated scheduling, forecasting software packages
• 2+ years of experience working within a procurement tool (SAP, Ariba etc) environment at an advanced level
• Travel as needed to visit suppliers, resolve issues etc for new launches and ongoing business.
• Lead and Manage by influencing others
• Ability to take feedback
• Accountable and transparent
• Team oriented and collaborative
• “Can do” problem solving
• Action oriented
• Driven to Succeed through others
• Drive for results
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Customer focus including the ability to collaborate and support business goals and objectives

4. Collaborate:Leverage the diverse capabilities of colleagues.
5. Be Open:Create an environment that encourages everyone to speak up.
6. Act with Integrity:Be sincere and humble at all times.
7. Be Accountable:Commit to the goal. Take accountability for the execution.
8. Applaud Success:Create a culture that celebrates success

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