Manager, Regional Buyer

For over 75 years, BIC has been creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that are a part of every heart and home. As a member of our team, you'll be a part of reigniting a beloved brand as we continue to reimagine everyday essentials in new, sustainable and responsible ways. Our "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" approach to work creates an environment where self-starters, problem solvers and innovative thinkers thrive. BIC team members are empowered to take ownership of their careers and bring their unique perspectives to the table to make a meaningful impact on our mission. It's a colorful world - make your mark by joining the BIC team today. **Job Descrption**: As a Manager, Regional Buyer (Direct/ Indirect), you will be coordinating the procurement strategies related to the assigned categories; supporting goals achievement by securing supply, providing significant year-on-year cost improvements while meeting financial and budget targets; implementing demand, productivity and innovative improvements while maintaining product quality and managing vendor service levels; intertacting with internal and external key stakeholders to develop effective cost reduction strategies and implementation plans; managing an effective interaction and collaboration with Business Partnering, Sustainable Procurement, Center of Excellence and Operational Procurement teams. **Main responsabilities**: - Support/ Coordinate the development of and deploy procurement strategies related to the assigned categories. Follows alignment to priorities and performance goals, executes the strategy and implement strategic procurement efforts and innovation in specific categories as necessary and appropriate. Deploy sourcing best practices globally and ensure they are widely adopted - Follow strategy implementation. Track and trace forecasted performance vs. actual savings for the categories. Assist to find solutions to mitigate any supply risk - Represent sourcing categories with Group stakeholders. Communicate sourcing market trends/results for categories to key stakeholders. Work with finance stakeholders to ensure savings are built and measurable into budgets and the annual operating plan. Support the sourcing team to be actively engaged in core business processes. Provide regional/local budget input on market effect, standards and productivity initiatives impacting costs - Participate in the process to select and monitor suppliers. Coordinate the supplier selection and negotiation process for key sourcing teams and overall management of the strategic suppliers to the group. - Lead regional/ local sourcing strategies in alignment with the global category strategy and oversee sourcing events - Maintain expertise in the categories of spend. Remain current with market trends through relationships with Supply Managers, suppliers and market experts, and ensure that we have a process to gain access/familiarity with emerging supplier capabilities - Execute the Group Sustainability Targets and the sourcing strategies include Sustainable Engineering - Ensure compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, contracts management and laws, as well as monitoring suppliers quality, risk and compliance - Coordinate the Category Strategy Planning: Mobilize teaming, Collect category insights (with Analytics) & create category profiles, Identify opportunities & prioritize projects (with Business Partner) and create category and buying channel strategy. **Requirements**: - BS required + MBA preferred - Minimum 5 years of relevant experience within manufacturing industry - Fluent level of English - Strong communication and negotiation skills - Solid problem-solving and analytical skills - Comfortable with challenging "conventional" thinking BIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.