Procurement Senior Manager Jobs

Nature's Sunshine is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager to help build a world-class procurement function that finds natural ingredients for creating unique products to share the healing power of nature. This role collaborates with manufacturers, distributors, and cross-functional teams (Quality Assurance, R&D, Regulatory, Operations, and Marketing), to execute cost optimization initiatives and continue to achieve record-breaking results.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation into a world-class procurement function.
• Leading cross-functional initiatives to source natural ingredients across the globe.
• Develops, prepares, launches, and evaluates RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, and other documents to assess supply base landscape, capabilities, and competitiveness to ensure NSP realizes cost optimization.
• Manage the supplier selection process in conjunction with Quality Assurance
• Build and execute comprehensive strategic category sourcing plans.
• Accountable to deliver the lowest sustainable prices and ensure continuity of supply of all products for assigned categories that meet specifications for NSP products.
• Coordinate with manufacturers, distributors, and cross-functional teams (Quality Assurance, R&D, Regulatory, Operations, and Marketing) to identify savings opportunities that can be implemented and realized
• Lead global category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including pricing, cost savings, supplier rationalization, supply availability, and risk management.
• Monitor contract status of global contracts
• Participate in other projects and tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Knowledge and experience of MRP and ERP systems, preferably Oracle systems.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Proven ability to negotiate substantial cost savings.
• Self-driven intellectual curiosity to continue developing new skills.
• Knowledge of nutraceutical ingredients is preferred
• 5 yrs. experience in progressive procurement.
• Strong active listening skills and collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• Skillful in MS Excel with the ability to create analytical formulas
• Proven experience in Root Cause Analysis.

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