United States, Rocky Hill, CT, Purchasing

Purchasing Manager - Regional Supply Resilience NA At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 47.000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

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YOUR ROLE Optimize, together with Supply Chain, the e2e value chain demand-to-supply to improve supplier performance level with proactive supplier engagements, supplier quality level & Raws / Packs inventory and consignment stock. Ensure supply continuity and manage all critical shortages & Force Majeures avoiding out of stocks and impact on NES. Supports sourcing categories in bringing contractual agreements to a higher level of maturity and standardization with regards to risk mitigation, operational performance and supply chain optimization (MOQ, incoterm, lead time). Ensure consistent global documentation and reporting on supply disruptions and defined supply resilience KPIs in the region. Enhance usage of tool and BI dashboard on supplier performance (supplier evaluations, OTIF), supply disruption (FM Bot) and proactive risk mitigation and Tier-1 data (DDF). Responsible for local supplier scouting with close collaboration with the sourcing teams to increase the sourcing flexibility. YOUR SKILLS MBA degree with a minimum of three years of related experience or four-year college degree with five years of related experience. Proven understanding of general business processes including Supply Chain and Procurement planning, Costing, Finance and Procurement's role in these processes. Strong problem-solving skills, able to align multinational resources to successfully address and resolve Supply Chain issues. Ability to quickly gain cross-category knowledge in different direct materials and logistics sourcing categories. High level of digital skills to drive creative solutions embedded in digital framework Procurement and Supply Chain Demonstrated project management and communication skills.

The salary for this role is $95,000.00 - $110,000.00. 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. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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