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Senior Purchasing Manager, IT

Employer
Henkel Company
Location
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Salary
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Industry
Office and Administration
Role
Manager
Job Type
Long-Term
Hours
Full Time
At Henkel, you can be a game changer and craft your career. Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit by bringing your ideas to life within a global team. Our leading brands and technologies, along with our high-performing businesses will provide you with countless opportunities to develop your skills and explore new paths. Your career at Henkel will contribute to a more sustainable future, while you grow within our vibrant, diverse culture of trust and belonging. If you’re up for challenging the status quo, join our team of pioneers and make your mark on the future with us.

Do you dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

  • Assists the Global IT Category Team Lead to develop strategy for the entire Category and to define execution modalities
  • Ensures full documentation and traceability
  • Delivers bottom line results managing and owning spend according to yearly planning and upfront savings targets and KPIs
  • Establishes close collaboration with Henkel IT and Digital Transformation Teams both in the NA Region as well as globally, fully aligning and driving Digitalization goals and objectives.
  • Gains and documents sustainably total value chain, industry and supply base insight/ knowledge for IT spend
  • Conducts periodical risk assessment and designs and manages adequate countermeasures for IT Portfolio
  • Defines and manages selected sustainable supplier portfolio
  • Selects suppliers; establishes strategic supplier relationship where appropriate and manages it accordingly
  • Drives and develops best practices for e-sourcing with sustainable results
  • Ensures cross fertilization of knowledge and best practices sharing inside the IT Category Is responsible for periodical progress measurement, accuracy of information and data, in-time delivery, audit conform documentation Proactively steers the agreement portfolio


YOUR SKILLS

  • MBA degree with a minimum of three years of related Purchasing experience or four-year college degree with six years of related experience.
  • Potential to supervise staff depending on role.
  • Responsible for stakeholder management, management of Information Technology Category spend, and KPIs
  • Key contributor to Purchasing strategy and accountable for tactical implementation
  • Contributes to the development of annual team objectives
  • Excellent Stakeholder management skills
  • Strong ability to drive a cross-functional team
  • Excellent ability to multi-task and manage and prioritize task
  • Experience in cross category, cross function, and/or cross material group management
  • Ability to leverage agile working methods and trends to drive a digital working culture

The salary for this role is $100,000.00 - $135,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Connecticut. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other legally protected characteristics.

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