PURPOSE

The Plant Purchasing Manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with Imerys' purchasing and supply process in collaboration with site operations, buyers and the prochub (Imerys' shared supply service based in Greece).

He/she contributes to the operational monitoring of suppliers and their services.

He/She will in charge of creating and deploying strategy at local level

He/she is required to manage tenders and negotiate according to Imerys' organizational rules and purchasing policy.

JOB SCOPE/DIMENSIONS

The Scope

7 plants in the center of France

Order volume: 5000 orders per year

Spend on Purchases: 50 million euros

Number of suppliers: 930

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Compliance with Purchasing Policy:

  • Ensure full compliance with the general purchasing procedure and supplier selection guidelines

  • In collaboration with the local procurer and the Procurement Hub, assist in change management and the implementation of good purchasing practices (P-Cards, on-time orders, PR, PO, GR, SI processes)...

• Compliance with the S2P process:

  • Be the Purchasing Manager for local opex / capex purchase

  • Manage the RFQs, lead negotiations, contract with suppliers and manage their performance. Main categories: Industrial equipment and services (maintenance), indirect, mining and laboratory studies.

  • Establish agreements with recurring suppliers

  • Meet stakeholder's needs and in compliance with Imerys' purchasing policy, consolidate and challenge the requirements

  • Ensure the proper application of contracts negotiated by the Category Purchasing department

  • Ensure that contracts are properly communicated to internal clients and that they are used correctly.

• Supplier monitoring:

  • Responsible of the purchase contracts for local purchase opex / capex

  • Sourcing new suppliers and negotiating contracts

  • Propose and manage regional or national purchasing synergies | Streamlining of the site's supplier panel

  • Organize regular business reviews with local suppliers

  • Monitoring suppliers ‘performance, KPIs (QCDs)

  • Monitor the non-conformity handling process, the action plans implemented by suppliers, and the annual supplier performance evaluation.

• Ensure the state of the art

  • Gathering the local purchasing requirements: anticipate, collect and optimize the sites requirements in terms of quantity and specifications

  • Be the single point of contact to the plants and the technical centers, ensure a state of the art service level on purchasing topics for our internal stakeholders.

  • Meet stakeholder's needs and in compliance with Imerys' purchasing policy, consolidate and challenge the requirements

  • Ensure internal customer satisfaction with the performance of the purchasing team.

  • Reporting and analysis, collect and report the sites financial performance including tracking of target savings

• Support:

  • Be the guarantor of the continuous improvement of the purchasing process.

  • Assist site users in resolving issues related to the tools in the procurement and purchasing section (SAP and Ivalua)

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education and Experience requirements

Bac +5, specialized in purchasing.

Minimum of 2 years experience in industrial purchase

Languages: French, English

Ability to promote best purchasing and procurement practices

Ability and willingness to understand the technical elements of the categories

Strong negotiation and communication skills both internally and externally

Knowledge, skills, Imerys Leadership Behaviors

• Hard skills:

  • Professional English

  • Knowledge of standard purchasing (Source to Contract) and procurement (Procure to Pay) processes

  • Strategic sourcing

  • Contract Management

  • Data analysis and tools experience |Must have: Google suite/excel | Nice to have: SAP / Ivalua

  • Deliver results: Committed to respecting and to execute the plans defined up to their completion.

• Soft skills:

  • Rigour and precision

  • Autonomous

  • Solution- and results-oriented

  • Leads self: Acts daily with exemplary conduct on all aspects of Security and tolerates no compromise

  • Communicates and collaborates: Clearly expresses ideas and opinions, listens attentively and considers different points of view.

  • Areas for improvement: Research to optimize practices for gain efficiency