Regional Sourcing Lead fats & oil (food industry)

компания "барри каллебаут нл раша" the role purpose within the global strategy source fats and oil of eemea region that ensure the factory gets in time supply at a competitive price level. roles and responsibilities be responsible for fats and oil category buying activities of eemea region defining tasks, setting the strategy, monitoring the performance, coaching and developing the local fats buyer. work with other country sourcing heads to drive the total success of business own fats and oil category financial kpis like margin improvement, cash flow, trading business, etc. work with global team to analyze the fats & oil international and local markets to identify trends and opportunities to define the best strategy to cover commodity actively search for internal and external benchmarks to compare the prices and to improve the purchase conditions; set up the purchasing strategies guided by vp sourcing eemea evaluation and selection of the suppliers, negotiation of terms for major purchases; commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) that are in the organization’s best interest. planning new supplier audits with qa, participating and realizing them in a defined period manage supplier relationship to get best value (beyond price) planning (based on sales forecast), negotiating and executing purchasing of raw materials, including risk management, administration involved​ and pricing updating/controlling (rps) assist product development and r&d teams in sourcing required components from preferred and new suppliers to develop new product liaise with functional or operational area leads (for example in sales, production, or engineering) to understand their current and anticipated demand for goods and materials and develop plans, cost estimates, and schedules for integrating these needs into existing purchasing activities preparing reports for supplier evaluations and improving supplier performance by tracking and giving feedbacks to suppliers support to customers and salespeople when needed considering fats category market intelligence and raw material price negotiation co-operation with logistic department considering stock utilization, raw material flow driving activities, program on fats category sustainability and meet company forever chocolate sustainability commitment. report on performed actions on a monthly basis ensure compliance to purchasing processes and contracts qualifications: bachelor / master in business administration, supply chain, logistic or similar 10+ years of relevant work experience, preferred work in matrix organization ms office, fluent in english and russian excellent communications, strategic sourcing skills excellent people skill including team management and stakeholder management