Career Opportunities: Regional Buyer (90162) Req Id 90162 - Posted 10/05/2018 - Procurement - North America - United States - Open Location (anywhere in the U.S.) - Open Location (anywhere in the U.S.) - Full-Time - Permanent - Amcor Rigid Plastics Regional Buyer Various ARP North American Plants Amcor is the world's largest publicly traded packaging company; a market and innovation leader adding value to the worlds most recognizable brands. - Headquartered in Melbourne Australia Amcor is a global leader in responsible global packaging solutions supplying a broad range of rigid & flexible packaging products into the food, beverage, healthcare, home and personal care and tobacco packaging industries. - As the world's largest packaging company, Amcor offers exclusive and innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the packaging industry. - Today, Amcor has more than 27,000 co-workers working together across more then 180 sites in over 40 countries. - We are: Global, Customer-driven, Innovative, Responsible and Talented. - Visit www.Amcor.com to learn more. Position Overview: Regional Buyer with purchasing responsibility for 4-8 facilities. Responsible for execution of Amcors Procure Plus (P+) strategies to manage sourcing of quality products, equipment, and services. Responsible for assured supply of materials, while minimizing inventories, driving lower total cost of ownership, and reducing indirect spend for ARP plants. Acts as super user for Procure to Pay (P2P) processes & tools and drives continual improvements among plants. Works with P+ category and point teams on supplier performance issues and related scorecards. Strives for elevated level of P+ performance with desire and demonstration of capability to move into progressively advanced procurement positions. Essential Responsibilities and Duties: - Execute negotiations and supplier selection for one-off buys in accordance with the category sourcing strategy, spend level authorizations, and Amcors procurement and finance policies. - Responsible for indirect categories in scope, specifically spares and consumables, professional services, office supplies. - Manage day to day supplier performance, elevating as necessary and working as a partner with the category managers, various P+ point teams and suppliers to deliver timely/effective solutions. - Deliver monthly management reports measuring - catalog vs. non-catalog spend, Ariba compliance, product substitution, inventory management. Define and implement local corrective actions as necessary. - Collaborate with category managers, various P+ point teams, and plant operations teams to implement and monitor compliance to catalog usage and indirect TCO strategies; including, consolidation of suppliers and SKUs, product substitution, standardization and other related procurement objectives. - Act as the Ariba super user and local P+ champion and in doing so, provide coaching, training and day-to-day support of procurement processes and master data systems for business users. - Engage with category managers on supplier pricing issues and where updates to contracts are needed as the business needs evolve. - Manage workflow logs within agreed service levels from new and updated purchase requisitions (PRs) to purchase orders (PO) with involvement from appropriate business - Work closely with requisitioner, suppliers, receiving, controllers and finance shared services (SS) to resolve invoice issues and to identify root cause with corrective action. - Escalate non-compliance to ARP policies to appropriate finance and procurement category managers/directors for further guidance and appropriate remedial action. Additional Responsibilities and Duties: - Lead identification and implementation of supplier catalog improvements with the objective of continually driving spend reductions. Area of focus will be correct pricing, SKU availability and master data accuracy. - Manage communication with suppliers and internal customers to satisfy product and delivery needs and requirements specifications. - Leverage subject matter expertise (SME) in SAP Materials Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP) transactions to ensure transactional errors between SAP and Ariba are identified and corrected for purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices. - Monitor compliance of NA plant operations with MRO max level settings. Identify and transfer overstock from other plants via share the spares program before ordering with suppliers. Assist plants and sites in identification of obsolete items. - Process Vendor Add/Change/Maintenance requests including working with internal personnel and external vendors to collect necessary information. - Work closely with MDM Specialists to ensure all new create or extend part requests are adequately completed with correct part nomenclature, pricing, and SAP categories. - Supports plant leadership and/or procurement category manager requests for data analysis, metrics reporting, and purchasing information. - Support set up of plant new equipment spares packages and rebuild packages to ensure optimal amount of ARPNA inventory is absorbed and further maintained prior to purchase. - Other projects/tasks as assigned Qualifications: - Bachelors degree in business or related field - 3-5 years of relevant experience in an indirect buyer role - Experience working in a large, complex multi-location manufacturing organization - Strong preference for systems aptitude and hands-on experience with SAP - Ariba, ERP and MDG systems - Demonstrated effectiveness using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word Competencies: - Amcor Leadership Framework Competencies - Core Competencies: - Supplier negotiations - Teaming for customer success - Drive for results - Analytical and problem solving - Attention to details - Effective communications - 3-5 Applicable ALF Competencies: - Organizing - Priority setting - Functional/technical skills - Process management - Dealing with ambiguity Relationships: - Reports directly to the Plant Manager and indirectly to Lead/Manager of Procurement Tactical Execution - Supports the following internal customers/other colleagues - Director of Procurement Systems and Tactical Execution - Procurement Category Directors/Managers - Maintenance Managers - Materials Managers - Materials Co-ordinators - Master Data Specialists - Plant Controllers