The Plant Procurement Manager (PPM) manages the relationship between the purchasing organization and the plant to achieve the plant’s purchasing objectives.

What will you do?

Productivity

· Accountable, with the Procurement Sourcing Leads (PSL), for the material productivity of the plant.

· Monitoring of the negotiation actions and their results.

· Support to the PSL for managing technical and supplier change actions (identification and progress) with escalation process within the purchasing function and/or the plant.

· Identification, with the PSL, of new actions to reach the targets in term of productivity by lever

· In charge of the accuracy of forecasted savings by challenging PSL to ensure maintenance is being performed and to make it match the P&L reality.

· Accountable, with the monthly reconciliation committee (PPM, financial controller and PSL, for consistency of productivity in forecast and in actuals.

Supplier Management

· Supports Plant Quality & Managers on supplier performance for critical cases, in internal escalation process after SQME & SSCME’s implications

· Participates to the monthly Supplier Performance Meeting with the Plant.

· Informs about short and middle-term Quality & Logistics risks coming from supplier market.

Supplier Market

· Makes sure that the Supplier Orientation Charts exist and are shared with the Plant.

· Informs the Plant about supplier market significant changes and warns the Plant if risks are identified.