Packaging Group Buyer

For All. For Good, our company motto, reflects Bel's commitment to healthier and responsible food for all. This mission engages 12,600 employees daily in over 30 countries to build a responsible and profitable business model.

Our brands - La Vache qui rit®, Kiri®, Mini Babybel®, Boursin® - are universal and positive, constantly reinventing themselves to offer all consumers healthy and responsible dairy and fruit snacking products.

If you want to join a company with strong brands that puts the consumer and responsibility at the heart of its decisions, then Bel is the place for you

Are you bold, pragmatic, and determined? Do you want to contribute to the transformation of an international agri-food group? Then come and measure the impact of your talent and energy on the realization of an ambitious and sustainable business project

As part of its social policy, the Bel Group is open to all skills and is committed to a voluntary and sustainable disability policy.

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**LOCATION AND DATE**

Suresnes (92). Permanent contract available immediately.

**MAIN MISSIONS**

Reporting to the Packaging Procurement Manager for Aluminum, Tear strip, and Preformed Plastic and Cardboard Pots categories, your responsibilities will include:

- Defining Procurement strategies for the Aluminum category (cheese portion: Vache qui rit®, Kiri®, Apericube®, Boursin®, and pre-cut Aluminum lid: needs analysis, cost analysis, market analysis, specification evolution proposal... (15 factories)
- Managing and animating the supplier panel in line with Procurement strategies
- Managing supplier performance (business review, evaluation, improvement plan...)
- Participating in supplier audits and visits
- Helping to resolve supplier disputes: qualitative, quantitative, returns, credit note requests
- Building budget for the Group, ensuring coordination across different countries, and performing monthly monitoring with action plan proposals to reduce variances
- Contributing to the Group's RSE commitments by managing RSE projects in your procurement category
- Ensuring Procurement performance: taking positions in the futures market (hedging), monitoring market indices, tenders, negotiations, productivity projects, implementation of procurement contracts...
- Regularly carrying out risk analyses, identifying appropriate contingency plans, and leading security or continuity projects
- Securing supplies in partnership with the factories (implementing contingency plans, backup sites, etc.)
- Proposing cost reduction actions (consolidation of needs, complexity reduction, specification challenge, supply optimization...)
- Participating in innovation projects in connection with stakeholders (marketing, factories, R&I, commercial...), driving innovation and value analysis
- Optimizing cash vis-à-vis stocks and obsolescence related to product stops, launches, and switches
- Representing Packaging Procurement in different decision-making meetings (Development Committees, Steering Committees)
- Producing the necessary reports for an effective category management (purchase variances, productivity pipeline feed, budget landing, etc.)
- Carrying out market research and working with your supplier network to track developments (regulatory, technical, sourcing, market) in order to adjust your strategy, prioritize, or initiate new projects

**PROFILE**
- With a higher education degree (bac+5), specializing in Packaging Engineering (e.g., ESIEC, ESI Reims, ESEPAC...), or a generalist IAA engineer or Master's degree with a specialization in Procurement, you should have at least 5 years of experience in packaging procurement. Ideally, you already have knowledge of aluminum procurement.
- You should have a strong analytical ability, project management knowledge, and demonstrate real leadership.
- You should be involved and rigorous, recognized for your interpersonal skills and pragmatism.
- You should have good practice in ERPs (ideally SAP) and the Microsoft Office suite.

Finally, your English should be fluent and fluency in French is an advantage

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