Join us and collaborate with business functions to ensure deep understanding of their needs and identify optimization opportunities to deliver against business needs.

The position reports directly to the Global Category Director

Your key missions:

Operational Support

• Lead the analysis and reporting on savings, spend coverage, supplier performance and other procurement KPIs to generate actionable insights.
• Performs price comparisons and supplier benchmarking to support sourcing decisions & negotiations
• Actively participates in budgeting process and updates, in collaboration, with the Global Category Managers
• Follows Category market inflation and updates cost models adopted with suppliers
• Provide support on productivity pipeline, including cost and savings analysis, owns Wave (savings reporting) process
• Lead on data improvement, including cleansing, reporting and aligning dashboards to ensure accurate reporting
• Assists with SRM processes including supplier capacity, supply risks and allocations, to ensure quality, service, cost and performance KPIs are met
• Manages categories / subcategories / specific dry goods suppliers as appropriate
• Supports S&R roadmap elaboration, working in partnership with category team, S&R team, suppliers and proximity teams
• Category champion for data workstreams as well as governance & compliance requirements on behalf of the category e.g. Sedex, Digital transformation

Strategy & Performance Management

• Provide analytical support to Global teams in developing and implementing sourcing strategies and in preparation for tenders.
• Prepare decision-making dashboards, reports, and recommendations for strategic procurement initiatives.
• Manages global budgeting & performance/pipeline tracking process for category responsible

Contribute to supplier feedback processes by gathering and structuring relevant data

Performance Management and Cross Functional Support (cont.)

• Actively seek to identify improvement areas and build procurement excellence in tools, processes, policy and ways of working  
• Implement plans, follow closely with affiliates on identified local initiatives, provide escalation support to find solutions
• Participate actively in the procurement community, contributing to the sharing of benchmarks, guidelines, and best practices.

If you recognize yourself in the description below, don’t wait and apply!

• Experienced professional with successful 5+ years record in a procurement organisation, ideally within a FMCG multi-cultural organisation
• Advanced analytical skills & data driven. Good understanding of financial and commercial context of direct packaging, knowledge of direct packaging supplier market preferrable
• Experienced in analyzing spend, needs, KPIs and supporting the realization of category strategy in an autonomous position
• An understanding of procurement processes and contract management basics
• Advanced problem-solving and good negotiation skills. Strong communication skills: verbal and presenting, proficient in English

Wait, there’s more…  

We offer you an outstanding and collaborative workplace that embodies our sharing & conviviality culture, the possibility to work from home (2 days a week), a very complete mutual insurance, an attractive compensation including profit-sharing, the possibility to train daily, employee events… 

Pernod Ricard is committed to diversity and inclusion: we are a disability-friendly company, one of France's Top 10 companies for gender equality, and we work with associations to promote social inclusion. Our recruitment methods focus on competencies to ensure equal opportunities.