**Company**: IRCA Group is a leading international B2B provider of semi-finished ingredients for the bakery, pastry, and gelato markets. Our products cater to independent producers as well as large food manufacturers. We produce chocolate, decorations, creams, inclusions, pastry mixes, gelato ingredients, and other bakery/pastry essentials. Headquartered in Italy, IRCA Group boasts a strong track record of growth over the past decade, with 22 manufacturing facilities all over the world, 2000+ employee and €1 billion of revenues.
**What we offer**:IRCA fosters a dynamic environment, embracing diversity and valuing diverse perspectives and international experiences, offering a stimulating context. We promote professional growth by providing tailor-made development programs and career advancement opportunities locally and internationally. With locations worldwide, we offer the chance to work on international projects, collaborate across cultures, and gain a global perspective. Joining our team means becoming part of a global community of passionate professionals dedicated to making a difference. If you are looking for stimulating challenges and the chance to contribute your ideas for process improvement in an ever-growing company, IRCA is the right place.
**Purpose of Position**: The Procurement Specialist is responsible for overseeing indirect procurement such as Facilities management, Logistics, freights, IT, warehousing and other categories. The role requires deep procurement and category knowledge, facilitating with leading sourcing, contracting, negotiating, designing, and implemented strategic sourcing methodology, and partnering strategies across business functions. The Procurement Specialist will drive procurement policies and procedures, sourcing requirements, products and services, and administrative requirements for procurement of goods and services. Additionally, the position manages and monitors supplier performance, which includes initiating and managing ongoing projects to reduce overall procurement costs and improve supplier flexibility, delivery, and performance.
**Description of Main Activities/Responsibilities**:
- Research, recommend, implement, and manage supplier programs that result in cost savings, process improvements, and risk mitigation.
- Provide support to stakeholders with acquisition strategies and sourcing & procurement options.
- Design Procurement the strategy and policy to aligned with corporate vision and values.
- Draft SOWs, managing communication with suppliers, Legal, Risk Management, and Business
- Analyze total procurement spend on an annual basis to ensure overall effectiveness and efficiency of spend.
- Analyze current and potential suppliers, as well as develop strategic alliances with suppliers to maintain competitive pricing, flexible lead times and high standards of quality.
- Identify and resolve issues that promote enterprise compliance.
- Track vendor performance through periodic financial reviews, product performance, customer satisfaction surveys, discrepancies, damage claims, contract compliance, etc.
- Drives the strategy and yearly planning for the procurement department.
- Drives and integrated and frequent review with the business to ensure Procurement is meeting the business needs.
- May support some additional direct categories such as packaging materials
**Requirements**:
- ** Education**: Degree in Finance, Economics, or other business-related focus.
- ** Experience**: 5+ years of experience in purchasing roles in international (multi-sites) companies.
- ** Language Skills**: English language knowledge is mandatory. French / German language knowledge is a highly appreciated.
- ** Computer Skills**: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially with Excel.
- **Behavioral Requirements**:Team player, self-motivated, desire to learn and take on new challenges. Achievement oriented (timeline driven, detail oriented, good planning, and negotiation skills). Adaptable and flexible, must be able to adapt to a fast-changing environments Ability to build internal/external strategic relationships.
- ** Other**: Based in Gallarate. Willingness to travel across EU sites (max 10/20% of the time)
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