Sr. Buyer - Supply Chain Procurement

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook, home to iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno®, and Kinder Surprise®.

As the love for our brands continues to grow, so does our global presence. Today, Ferrero is represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 markets worldwide. Behind our success are more than 38,000 dedicated employees who share a commitment to quality, excellence, and care in everything we do.

At Ferrero, we believe in creating an environment where people can thrive, grow their careers, and contribute to building brands that are loved by generations around the world.

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This professional is responsible for aligning with central category leaders and the regional manager regarding the purchasing strategy of the categories under their responsibility; scouting and qualifying suppliers in accordance with local procedures and group policies; conducting bid and vendor selection processes while ensuring the best balance of cost, quality, service, and warranty; leading the contracting process by coordinating the necessary activities with internal clients and the Fiscal, Finance, Legal, and other relevant areas; managing supplier claims; and performing supplier evaluations to ensure continuous improvement and supplier performance excellence.

• Scouting and/or development of suppliers for the categories (Transport, Warehouse, Customs Broker,Pallets ans logistic services ) related to Supply Chain Procurement  respecting local procedures and the group's policy.
• Have a good knowledge - understanding of the local and regional of  market suplliers, operation, identify the impact to the business and the main cost elements that make up the price or constrains that impact the Business, considering the category of the service purchase and the country of supply.
• Ensure that the qualification process complies with the policy and requirements established by the group.
• Support to PI&S function with the necessary actions with the supplier so that the qualification process will be efficient.                                                                                                         
• D&B + VFA evaluation during the qualification process of the new or actual vendor during the year or determined time stablished from the group.  
• Perform Bid selection and vendor selection processes respecting group policy, local procedures and ensuring the best selection in terms of cost, quality, logistic services and warranty.
• Close negotiations with vendors, monitore and report the results (Price Increase / Cost Saving/ Cost Avoidance/ Cash Impact = Informativa File control) and place the Purchase Orders, following the process End-to-End.
• Lead the contracting process. Apply the group rules and contratc standard , Working closely to the main stakeholder and Legal in order to build a consistent Agreement with the vendors and reduce the impact to the Company.
• Claims management to suppliers, involving the internal client, departments involevd and managing the escalation flow if it  necessary.
• Carry out the evaluation process of suppliers of the categories under their charge, taking into account  KPI's + Threshold by supplier/category and involving the internal client.
• Permanent verification of the correct use of material groups in purchase requests
•  Permanent monitoring of the KPI's established in the area, carry out timely actions to comply with the KPI's + threshold.
• Foster the stakeholders in to close all the POs (at least 3x/year).
•  Identify and share the opportunities with the main stakeholders in order to reduce the volume related to Invoices before POs.                                                                                                                   
•  Monthly KPI's share volumes review in order to check the balance between BDG predicted vs actual spend during the year.                                                                                                                                                     
• Share and multiply knoledges with the Team when a new opportunity related to Process Improvement is identified, implementation Tools and execution day by day.

• Graduation in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, Supply Chain or Statistics;
• Proficiente in:
  • English (advanced level);
  • Portuguese (advanced level);
  • Spanish is a plus;
• Desirable knowledge of SAP MM;
• Desirable knowledge in MS Office:
  • Proficient in Excel (intermediate level)
  • Proficient in Power BI (intermediate level)
• Proficient in:
  • Negotiation;
  • Contract management;

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