Procurement Manager (Capex)

ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal.  ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize.  The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s® and Sidul®.

POSITION SCOPE

• Plays an integral role in the European business decision making by having outstanding cross functional relationships.
• Supports the delivery of short, medium, and long term corporate and regional objectives at an asset level.
• Outstanding commercial input with the ability to take and execute market opportunities.
• Holds the Procurement team accountable for day to day performance while establishing a Procurement culture that has a sense of urgency to support customer service and commercial performance at its core.
• Responsible for the management of Purchasing activities in Capex and Services for ASR Europe and for the development of Procurement’s core processes, standard operating procedures and category management strategies to ensure that timely, cost-effective and robust contracts are sourced, negotiated, awarded and maintained with key suppliers and strategic partners, while maintaining optimal levels of support and cost benefits to internal customers.
• Responsible for maintaining and accountability of KPI’s, while working with internal stakeholders to drive improvement and cost effective solutions in a proactive manner.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Effective Procurement Team management, ensuring that team member performances are closely monitored and optimized using training & development while driving compliance with SOP’s and best practices
• Buildings and maintaining collaborative cross functional relationships between the Procurement team and its internal customers, that provide for appropriate levels of service and support being maintained and for priorities being addressed proactively
• Developing and presenting market-competitive category management strategies covering the key sub-categories and commodity groups.
• Developing and implementing an effective supplier relationship management program to drive improvements in supplier performances and added-value contributions.
• Expert in contract negotiations, pricing analysis and markets forecasting
• Ability to prepare and present complex information to C-Suite Level Executives while generating a strategic plan that integrates numerous business issues, functions and resources for effective action

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES AND KEY DELIVERABLES

• Management of all spend related to Capex and Services for European Business
• Strong relationship with Engineering Department
• Management of the Procurement team’s performance against departmental and internal customer KPIs and SLAs.
• Development and implementation of business cases to drive significant improvements in P-2-P process efficiencies

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES)

• Strong analytical and numeracy skills, combined with advanced Excel and IT skills.
• SAP experience strongly preferred.
• Strong negotiation & influencing skills
• Commercially astute
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strategic Orientation - ability to think long- term with keen business awareness, critical analysis and integration of information, and the ability to develop and implement action- oriented plans
• Commercial Orientation- ability to identify and move toward business opportunities, seizing chances to increase profit and revenue
• Transformation- ability to transform the business for significantly improved results
• Comprehensive financial management capabilities- required to grow a changing, complex business
• Dealing with Ambiguity – changing market conditions, must operate and function with limited knowledge and incomplete picture
• Global Savvy- International awareness, knowledge and understanding of people and markets; adaptable and flexible in unfamiliar situations; effectively communicates across cultural and linguistic boundaries
• Results Driven – beat market, plan and constant cover as deliverables to business
• Functional/Technical Skills –  Purchasing, Contract Law, Lean, Benchmarking, Financial Analysis
• Proactively resolves quality and commercial issues with vendor and internal customers
• Informing – prepare and present comprehensive reporting for budgets, finance & C-Suite Executive Team  

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

• Manages team members from Procurement
• Trains and develops direct reports
• Sets challenging and productive goals for his/her team and holds them accountable
• Monitors work productivity and recommends and implements changes to improve work productivity
• Arranges for cross training of direct reports to maximize productivity and provide coverage of all functions

At Tate & Lyle Sugars, our goal is to be the most admired sweetener Company.

Service Excellence- Be the industry's Gold Standard by a relentless focus on reliability, providing products with superior quality and excellent customer services.  Efficiency and Sustainability-  Eliminate inefficiency to be a sustainable, low cost producer and to generate fuel for reinvestment. Value-Add: create strategic advantage and enhanced profitability through value-added products and services. The foundation of our values is Talent and Culture as we aim to build, retain and motivate a winning team.