Procurement Coe Lead Emea

**Company Background**:
Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

As the **Procurement Center of Excellence (COE) Lead EMEA **you establish consistent and standardized Procurement processes across the organization to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize risks. Furthermore you identify, share and implement best industry practices to optimize Procurement performance and increase savings. In cooperation with other functions (Finance, SC, Quality etc.) you identify and collect local data and enable the tracking and analyzing of Procurement performance metrics to measure progress, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and drive the same. You own spend analysis and Procurement relevant reporting in the region. A key deliverable is to visualize data, drive messaging and communication of the data together with the regional Procurement leadership across the organization. You identify, assess and manage risks to minimize impacts on the business. Key to this is cooperating with the category managers to assess the supplier base, develop and implement corrective actions as well as the global Business Continuity Process (BCP) which you manage for Procurement in the region.

Another aspect of the role is project management and advancing the technology agenda for the function in EMEA. You are the main contact for training and development of the Procurement Team in the region.

You work closely with and are the regional extension of the Global COE to ensure consistency between global and regional policies, processes, scorecards, reporting and initiatives/change management.

Task transfer and management incl. leadership responsibility for 1-2 employees in the Supply Chain and Procurement Support Team working in Pakistan.

**Main responsibilities**:
**Processes & Policies**

Standardization by establishing consistent and standardized procurement processes across the organization to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize risks.
- Ensure and maintain connectivity between regional and global Procurement procedures and policies as well as templates, standard documents and contracts in coordination with the EMEA Procurement leadership and other stakeholders like Legal, Finance and Quality
- Regularly review and update regional policies, procedures and processes together with responsible category managers (energy, indirect, agribusiness, logistics and others) and other functions (finance, legal) throughout the organization and train users on purchasing processes across the region
- Review, update and maintain the SAP PR / PO approval structure in the region
- Drafting and maintenance of templates (bidder score cards etc.) as well as design of sourcing / bidding processes incl. documentation for internal and external stakeholders

Implementing best practices: Identifying and implementing industry best practices to optimize procurement performance, increase savings and reduce risk.
- Evaluation of Critical Suppliers: Update and monitor the list of suppliers, perform the evaluation together with category managers and other stakeholders plus monitoring of action plans
- Support the drafting of supplier briefs, gather and maintain data for briefs
- Responsibility for the EMEA supplier brief inventory
- Train and guide contract administrators in the evaluation methodology and process updates
- Serve as the local point for global Procurement Audits
- Responsible for the implementation of action plans for non-conformities, findings, and aspects to be improved in audit processes
- Connect with other global functions like the Supply Chain GOAT, Quality etc. on reporting, best practices and more

**Managing procurement performance**

Tracking and analyzing procurement performance metrics to measure progress, identify opportunities for improvement, and drive continuous improvement.
- KPI ́S administration incl. tracking and reporting
- Alignment of regional / global reports for: budget (GOAL, LEs) and in Power Steering
- Establishing and maintaining for Procurement a monthly operations results dashboard
- Assure that both the global and regional teams, work with updated and accurate data
- Support audits on Cost Savings and Cost Avoidance

**Risk Management**
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating procurement risks to minimize the impact of disruptions on the organization Implement standards policies, processes, and procedures
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