Procurement Excellence manager
Join an exciting journey in a highly ambitious team to drive value to FrieslandCampina!
The Procurement excellence manager is responsible for the procurement excellence strategy and action plan. Making sure Frieslandcampina Procurement remains at or beyond benchmark. He/She acts as a change/transformation leader on innovation, process, tools and focusses on continuous improvement within the department.
What we ask
Candidate requirements
- 2 years of relevant experience specifically in the field of Procurement excellence, project management or driving continuous improvement
- Fluent in English (Dutch is a bonus)
Competencies
- Gathering information and deriving insights
- Collaborating to win, result oriented
- Build networks, cultural awareness
- Courage
- Change management and leadership
- Measuring and improving performance
- Acting with decisiveness
- Affinity with process & technology Savvy
- Continuous improvement
- Strong stakeholder management & governance
- Business Acumen (priority setting)
What we offer
- Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence
- We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package so you can enjoy it
- Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey
- Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths
- A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners
- Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world
- Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy
Vacancy description
The Procurement excellence manager reports to the Procurement Director Center of Excellence and collaborates closely with other excellence mangers. The main responsibilities are:
- Generate and maintain roadmap
- Project/program management.
- Makes sure the right governance and priorities are in place.
- Manages key cross-functional stakeholders around the procurement excellence plans and priorities.
Accountabilities
- Procurement excellence roadmap delivery and implementation.
- Global Process Ownership
- Project/program governance
- Procurement application landscape mgmt. with IT and product ownership for procurement applications (Coupa, Supplier connect, Sirius cost price modelling, advanced sourcing tools like Ariba and Keelvar).
- Support Quality and Compliance for Procurement.
- Project management & execution
- Procurement training, campus
Dimensions
10+ project/programs annually
Junior Excellence Manager
Stakeholders
- PLT
- BP & CP teams
- S2C teams
- GBS
- Cross functional leaders in Supply chain
- Business stakeholders involved in excellence projects
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInFor thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are.
We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.
This role is within the Center of Excellence Procurement team, a very diverse and multicultural team with people located across Europe and Asia. This role is located in Amersfoort (NL)