Global Procurement Manager Procurement Operations Liquid Dairy-420645

Liquid Dairy Supply Chain Manager

This role has full supply assurance ownership, forecasting, escalation, and support for the category of Liquid Dairy within the Procurement Operations team supporting PepsiCo North Americas beverage business. This category includes $160MM in spend across multiple suppliers and multiple PepsiCo co-man manufacturing locations. The liquid dairy supply chain is extremely complex due to the nature of the product, short shelf life, and transportation complexities.

Responsibilities :

• Develop understanding and playbook for managing the complex liquid dairy category within supply assurance.
• Properly communicate volume needs with suppliers with an understanding of total capacity of supplier base and needs of the plant locations.
• Build and leverage deep understanding of plant operations, external supplier capabilities and Procurement Category strategies to drive supply assurance and create / implement process improvements.
• Prepare best practices playbook for alternative supply options when issues escalate. Be responsive and clear in communication through resolution of issues, providing regular updates to procurement and supply chain leadership.
• Ensure delivery of key financial KPIs for supply assurance areas of ownership.
• Partner with Operations / R&D / other functions to ensure key innovation projects launch successfully on time / within budgets.
• Development and deployment of benchmarking and reporting scorecards to enable supplier improvement plans and drive efficiencies.
• Create and execute Business Continuity Plans to ensure continuous supply.
• Regular communication on raw material supply needs and potential gaps. Align Business Continuity plans to enable.
• Drive flawless innovation execution with procurement commercial readiness.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on any raw material quality issues.
• Lead creation of new S&OPs.
• Input into category strategies in partnership with Snr Manager to create future strategies bringing the internal customers perspective to ensure an end to end holistic strategy gaining awareness of the overall Operational, Sustainability and Productivity commitments.

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