Title:  Manager, Procurement (MRO)

Mission:

The Procurement Manager– MRO position requires the development of effective sourcing strategies for the company’s MRO spends for the Mill and Converting divisions as assigned by the Director, Mill Capital, MRO and Manufacturing Services. This position ensures projects are bid and sourced following approved strategy and processes while ensuring availability, service and quality needs are met.  Implements and administers policies, procedures and systems by which the Company’s MRO supply base is managed. Proactively evaluates, identifies and leads meaningful continuous improvement of procurement strategies for assigned spends. 

Outcomes:

• Achieve year over year cost savings for MRO assigned categories while maintaining surety of supply.
• Category strategies that are in line with best practices and the overall needs of the business are effectively shared and maintained.
• Category spend adherence of MRO, Services, and assigned categories.
• Update and present inflation and savings assumptions for forecasting and strategic planning.
• Establish KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) for delivered cost, inventory, payment terms and cost reduction initiatives.
• Evaluate and drive automation of procure to pay processes across assigned categories.
• Evaluates and analyzes MRO procurement practices and implements Best Demonstrated Practices. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish and develop the supply base to ensure availability of quality materials in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Develop and implement competitive category strategies for currently unmanaged spend.
• Establish criteria and strategy for negotiations with suppliers.
• Ensure cross functional support of initiatives impacting both Converting and Mill division.
• Follow the Strategic Procurement Initiative process to drive purchased items towards common specifications and increase supplier competition.
• Develop cross functional team to drive projects effectively and efficiently across both the Mill and Converting divisions.
• Lead procurement planning reviews with business unit leadership for assigned categories.
• Review commodity analyst reports for data integrity and validity of assumptions.
• Lead implementation of a Supplier Management Program. 
• Monitor supply/demand activity for key purchases.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to leverage enterprise, regional, and localized spend in the Services category to drive SPI.
• Drive standardization of sourcing and procurement processes at the local level for Plant Consumables, Bearings and Power Transmission, Fluid Power, and other managed categories.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting to Supply Chain finance team regarding SPI and synergy projects, inflationary costs and budget assumptions.
• Effective and frequent communication regarding project updates to Supply Chain management including routine issues affecting the organization. 
• Carry out all policies and achieve objectives as directed by the Director, Mill Capital, MRO and Manufacturing Services.
• Other duties as assigned.

 Competency Requirements:

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Action Oriented: Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Priority Setting: Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and pts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing goals; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus
• Organizing: Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner.
• Conflict Management: Steps up to conflicts; seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get corporation within minimum noise.
• Organizational Agility: Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures; understands the cultures of organizations.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Composure: Is cool under pressure; does not become defensive or irritated when times are tough; is considered mature; can be counted on to hold things together during tough times; can handle stress; is not knocked off balance by the unexpected; doesn’t show frustration when resisted or blocked; is a settling influence in a crisis. 

Other Requirements:

• Must have bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, engineering, finance, accounting, economics, statistics or another related field. 
• Experience:  Minimum of 5 years of experience in Procurement, Operations, or Engineering & Maintenance Management
• Availability to travel up to 25%
• Excellent communications skills (both verbal and written).
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Expert-level skills in SAP, Microsoft Project, Excel, and Access
• Significant understanding of ERP systems
• Detail and multi-task oriented.

Required Skills

Competency Requirements:

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Action Oriented: Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Priority Setting: Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and pts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing goals; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus
• Organizing: Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner.
• Conflict Management: Steps up to conflicts; seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get corporation within minimum noise.
• Organizational Agility: Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures; understands the cultures of organizations.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Composure: Is cool under pressure; does not become defensive or irritated when times are tough; is considered mature; can be counted on to hold things together during tough times; can handle stress; is not knocked off balance by the unexpected; doesn’t show frustration when resisted or blocked; is a settling influence in a crisis. 

Other Requirements:

• Must have bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, engineering, finance, accounting, economics, statistics or another related field. 
• Experience:  Minimum of 5 years of experience in Procurement, Operations, or Engineering & Maintenance Management
• Availability to travel up to 25%
• Excellent communications skills (both verbal and written).
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Expert-level skills in SAP, Microsoft Project, Excel, and Access
• Significant understanding of ERP systems
• Detail and multi-task oriented.

Required Experience

At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you. Learn more about us at www.graphicpkg.com.

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