Procurement Manager - Home Care Vietnam BU

Home Care Greater Asia Business Unit (HC Greater Asia BU) has a coverage of more than 1.3bEU TO. With iconic brands such as Breeze, Omo, Surf, Sunlight and more. We are actively transforming our category to be future-fit, and our purpose is “Clean Home. Clean Planet. Clean Future”, and we want to lead in greener, effortless and delightful solutions for future homes in SEA.

In this role, you will be responsible for Procurement business partnering for our Vietnamese markets with a controllable spend of more than 250mEU. While each market in Greater Asia is different, VN stands out by being the market where we have a strong heritage and track-record of bringing leading solutions to consumers who trust and love our brands and products. In this context, we are thus responsible to ensure that we give strong business solutions to adapt to the ever changing market needs and keep our relevance and competitiveness strong.

You will use your business acumen to develop and drive a solid procurement strategy that helps to deliver sustainable growth, profitability, resilience and competitiveness to our business. You will have the opportunity to bring the right packaging, raw material and collaborative manufacturing solutions to the table, and will be supported by a global network of Procurement professionals and material specialists in developing the best solutions for your market.

In addition to the Vietnam market responsibilities, by being part of the wider Home Care Greater Asia procurement team, you may also look forward to be assigned a cross-region management responsibility based on your area of interest or expertise (eg. CM, Sulfonation, Backward Integration, Competitiveness, Sustainability, etc) to put in practice your strategic procurement capabilities to make lasting impact in our network across Greater Asia for the long term.

You will be reporting to the Head of Procurement – Home Care Greater Asia & Indonesia. Beyond procurement, you will be working closely with cross function teams across supply chain, marketing, R&D and more, with very significant visibility and impact. So a strong sense of ownership, independence, communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills are a must.

Main responsibility
Business Partnering

- First point of contact for all procurement related matters from all BU stakeholders, own KPIs for Quality & Service, Cost & Cash, Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing.

- Understand business needs and define procurement solutions to support. Shape and expand the scope and impact that procurement makes towards business.

- Activate support from full procurement organization to develop and land material strategies, ensure wider procurement team lines up towards short /long term KPI delivery.

Financial Delivery

- Forecast and Mitigation – work closely with finance to receive and interpret material inflation, bring material dynamics from Portfolio teams and external market insights, translating to business impact and pricing decisions. Managing PPV.

- Savings Program – Lead development of plans towards profitability intervention through materials (buying savings and product logic), coordinate across R&D, Portfolio teams, track and communicate delivery.

Growth and Innovation

- Innovation Projects – Part of cross-function team designing and deploying innovation projects, bringing Global / Regional portfolio inputs on supplier definitions, costings and influence the right commercial considerations.

- Disruptive Sourcing Models – continuously benchmark sourcing and buying capabilities via an intimate understand of material value chains, develop disruptive solutions that secures long term competitiveness.

Procurement Strategy and Operationalizing

- Materials Management: Managed in collaboration of Portfolio teams (regional/ global supply base). Maintaining strong material value chain understanding, bringing local market context to do-develop supplier and portfolio strategies relevant for local market.

- Collaborative Manufacturing: Directly managed (local supply base), responsible on end-to end from supplier discovery to regular operational relationship management. Including qualification, sourcing strategy alignment with planning, RFQ/RFPs, responsible sourcing, contract negotiations and business awarding.

Service and Compliance

- Ensure sourcing strategy is resilient, enforce the service and quality expectations with supplier partners, organise structural interventions on service and quality improvement

- Ensure procurement practices compliant to responsible sourcing, audit, legal safeguards. Including contract management, schedule-of-authority, code-of-business principles.

Team and People Development

- Lead team on operational excellence, unlock capacity towards strategic interventions.

- Build talent pool for not only procurement but also for supply chain competency. Develop and provide opportunity for team members to progress on development plans.

- Positive influence towards Procurement community in VN and across GA.

Key skills and experiences

• University degree

• At least 7 years experience in Procurement or SC, with at least 5 years in Procurement.

• Experience on large-scale, cross functional projects leadership, change management.

• Previous experience in FMCG / Home Care, or experience in commercial function or consultancy, is a must.

• Sourcing Direct &/or Indirect Spend, OR Procurement Leadership.
• Business Story Telling: Strong ability to present complex topics in an effective 
and concise manner, effective strategic influencing at all levels, grounded through financial acumen and credibility.
• Negotiation, Objection Management: Ability to find common ground and 
commercially acceptable solutions, with risk identification and management.
• Team Leadership: Promote a shared vision and inspires others to embrace 
learning, experimentation, development.
• Creative Problem Solving: awareness and intervention through the value chain to seek disruptive, impactful solutions.
• Personal Effectiveness: Effective and proven strategic planning, ability to learn quickly, handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously, resilient 
and determined towards success. Calm in the face of ambiguity.
• Familiarity with business and contract law as applied to supplier relationships.
• Proficient with productivity tools, data analysis, create insights from data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required
• Working with virtual teams

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