Country Buyer - Singapore - Amcor

Amcor

Verified Company

Singapore

1 week ago

Posted by:

Wei Jie

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Description

Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.
Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care
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We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 202
Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.
We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions.

Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific is one of Amcor's business groups, we are present in 9 countries with 41 sites and over 8000 people. Our regional headquarters is in Singapore, and we are a market leader delivering innovative flexible packaging solutions and quality products for food, beverage, pharma, personal care, medical, and industrial markets.

Job Overview

Be the local face of procurement and act as the interface between the SEA HC (SEA HC (Singapore & Malaysia) Business and the Group Procurement organisation.
Manage sourcing and commercial on both Direct and Indirect categories together with category teams.
Enhance the total value proposition and delivery of the purchasing organisation, driving execution of the strategy at a BU level and ensuring synergy program achievement.
Ensure delivery of the P+ targets, projects and implementation of the category strategies for the sites within the area of responsibility (inclusive of direct & indirect categories)
Facilitate the implementation of procurement strategic sourcing plans, understanding, acknowledging and resolving roadblocks ensuring prompt initiative implementation
Represent SEA HC (Singapore & Malaysia) BU requirements within the procurement organisation and act as a central focal point for BU communication and ensuring local requirements are recognised within purchasing strategy
Interface with the full breadth of the procurement or SEA HC (Singapore & Malaysia) BU organisation with a focus on execution and compliance and ensure best practice and local procurement activity development.
Support the SEA HC (Singapore & Malaysia) organisation using best purchasing practices for local initiatives, ensuring pooling of spend/commodities across plants or regions is performed when relevant or achievable, and making sure that all relevant local procurement saving initiatives are recorded within the group Procurement savings tool.
Support central purchasing tools and processes, in the form of implementation, maintenance or utilisation.
Work seamlessly with other group functions that have a local focus (i.e. CI) ensuring commonality of purpose and shared resource input.

Principal Accountabilities

Build strong relationships within the specific area of responsibility (Directs & Indirect categories) between the SEA HC (Singapore & Malaysia) BU, central organisations, and Group

Procurement

Build and maintain strong relationship between the key stakeholders at local plant organisation level
Have a good understanding of individual plant expectations, concerns or preferred direction.
Have a good understanding of other cost reduction activities being performed within the area of responsibility
Represent the interests of the area of responsibility within the procurement organisation

Facilitate strategy implementation

Work efficiently to execute group or local purchasing strategic direction for both direct and indirect categories
Manage strategy implementation according to or exceeding plan and monitor for compliance
Identify, understand and resolve roadblocks to implementation ensuring saving targets are secured & reported.

Communication - Single point of contact for plants

Be the SPOC for the BU SEA HC (Singapore & Malaysia) organisation to address adhoc or generic communication
Take ownership of topics and ensure response/resolution within a timely manner
Communicate the current procurement strategic direction, as it relates to the area of responsibility as needed
Ensure that the needs of the BU are effectively represented in the Purchasing Strategies

Identify Local Saving opportunity

Work closely within the area of responsibility to identify local saving opportunities, which by their nature may not be considered at central level or due to BU dynamics being specific in nature
Communicate opportunities centrally to the relevant CPM to be addressed either centrally or locally

Perform country specific procurement activities