TMEA Procurement Lead of OV CM & Beauty Plus at Avon

What you'll be doing:

• You are responsible for developing and executing the sourcing strategy for the Beauty and Beauty+ categories and ensure delivery of best procurement value and supply risk mitigation.
• You will be required to provide overall ownership of the procurement leadership in the category across all countries in scope while leading a team of category specialists/analysts.
• Ensure delivery of consistent and sustainable best value strategic sourcing and supply in the relevant markets, whilst ensuring alignment to Regional and Global Strategies to support al business requirements.
• Manage procurement spend of ~$16m across TMEA Cluster.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategic Thought Support 

• Develop and implement approved long term category strategies in collaboration and alignment with the global categories and business requirements.
• Lead key negotiations to establish commercial contracts in line with DOA and deliver business value.
• In line with agreed global or regional Procurement strategies and mandates, develop and lead Avon’s relationships with its external supplier base and regulatory authorities within the assigned geographies.
• Collaborate with business and functional stakeholders to deliver an enhanced value through detailed TCO and commodity strategy reviews.
• Lead strategic sourcing projects and RFX processes and leverage any synergies with business and global procurement to drive innovation and savings.
• Conduct comprehensive supply market analyses to evaluate opportunities for supply, risk management, in-depth understanding of cost drivers, benchmarking, and innovation trends for VE options.
• Collaborate with centres of Excellence and the Supply base to construct should cost models and value chain optimisation solutions.
• Accountable for leading the sourcing team across the cluster and ensuring procurement goals and governance target are delivered.
• Provide budgetary input for ACM and quarterly cost books forecast.
• Ensure category approval decisions are in line with the GPP and the DOA by developing comprehensive business cases prior to approval of contracts.
• Lead supply management with strategic and critical supplier with regular fact-based and objective reviews.

Aligning multiple Teams in a Category / Cluster 

• Align multiple category teams’ goals, priorities, and deliverables to those of the overall business/category in order to meet the required ongoing innovation, delivery, service, cost & quality targets.
• Translate business strategies into long-term category/cluster sourcing and supply strategies.
• Ensure that defined category/cluster sourcing targets are tracked and achieved on time, to budget.
• Ensure that suppliers and internal Avon category/cluster team members adhere to Avon’s business policies.
• Provide support to the Head of Procurement TMEA.

Supplier Relationship 

• In line with agreed global sourcing strategies and delegated mandates, develop and lead Avon’s relationships with its external supplier base and regulatory authorities as this may relate to assigned categories.
• Ensure suppliers meet Avon’s quality, innovation, service level performance, cash, and pricing requirements.
• Review and action results of core supplier scorecards and agreements.
• Ensure strategies are created and implemented for continuous joint improvement.
• Manage assigned expenses within annual budget expectations.
• Provide input to annual performance measure to enhance category team performance.
• Key metrics for sourcing organization effectiveness; establish clear and measurable goals that challenge sourcing to continuously improve using financial and quantitative data to manage; direct and develop sourcing process disciplines and management systems necessary to achieve objectives.

JOB FACTORS

 Work Experience:

• 10+ years’ professional experience in Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain Management.
• Relevant industry and market experience.
• Experience in the cosmetics industry preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree -minimum requirement (Masters, CIPS, BCom Supply Chain, CMA preferable).