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Raw Materials Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Travel: 20%

Get To Know Us!

ERCO Worldwide’s century-long tradition of excellence has firmly established its reputation for providing reliable, intelligent, and environmentally responsible manufacturing on a global scale. As one of the largest suppliers of Chlorine Dioxide technology in the world, we are devoted to building genuine customer relationships and delivering innovative, sustainable chemical solutions that improve lives and the health of our planet. Grounded in our commitment to sustainability, we serve multiple industries such as pulp & paper, oil & gas, agriculture, food processing, water treatment and more! It’s our goal to make everyone’s lives more productive, convenient, enjoyable, and safe.

The Role:

Raw Material Strategic Sourcing

1. Identifies and forecasts multi-year savings opportunities and leads strategic initiatives and savings projects as required.
2. Creates sourcing strategies to identify, evaluate and negotiate with suppliers to ensure stable and competitive raw material supply using the ERCO’s 8 step sourcing process.
3. Monitor commodity prices, supply chain risks and industry trends to allow rapid and sound decision-making.
4. Builds solid supplier relationships while continually identifying and sourcing new suppliers and alternative commodities with cost reduction motivation.
5. Fosters a culture of savings and value with colleagues and stakeholders.

Operational

1. Procures goods and services on budget with on time delivery.
2. Manages supplier selection to ensure price, quality, support and reliability are optimized to meet company requirements and objectives. Focuses on total cost of ownership.
3. Monitors supplier compliance with contractual agreements.
4. Measures and troubleshoots supplier cost, quality, shipping and delivery performance.
5. Collaborates with relevant business unit stakeholders (plants) and departments to integrate procurement with demand planning to maintain inventory levels and manage requirements.
6. Identifies critical business requirements and achieves or exceeds stakeholder expectations.
7. Simplifies technical details for commercial discussions with suppliers, facilitates timely placement of contracts, agreements and orders.
8. Audits contracts and purchase order history including legal aspects.

System & Process

1. Supports optimization of the Source to Pay process with user support, content management and adoption.

Responsible Care/ISO Management

1. Drives supplier sustainability score improvements across raw materials inclusive of corporate social responsibility and green house gas reduction.
2. Continual improvement of purchasing policies, procedures and best practices.
3. Oversee supplier compliance with internal quality standards and external regulations.

Reporting and other duties as assigned

1. Produce regular reports and insights on spend, purchase commitments, costs and delivery performance.
2. Assist with developing purchasing objectives, budgets and forecasts.
3. Accountable for achievement of departmental objectives.

The Person:

1. Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain or Chemical Engineering is required.
2. Knowledge of purchasing and supply chain, best practices via SCMAO Accreditation.
3. E1 and Coupa or other P2P software knowledge/experience.
4. Supply Chain, Procurement, Chemical Industry experience preferred. Requires technical assistance knowledge (chemical field) and strong analytical skills. Strong analytical and communication skills.

The Value You Bring:

1. Strong health and safety mindset
2. Strong relationship builder – collaborative, team-builder, coach to others.
3. Focused and results driven, transparent, and articulate
4. Resilient – can adapt to changing environments/technology
5. Proactive – takes initiative, creative, stays ahead of the curve, enthusiastic, inspirational

What you’ll love about us!

We take pride in providing our employees with a competitive compensation package to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family. Here are some of the perks we offer:

1. Company Paid Health and Dental Benefits on Day 1
2. Health Care/Wellness Spending Account
3. Annual Short Term Incentive Bonus
4. Staff Recognition Awards
5. Tuition Reimbursement
6. Employee and Family Assistance Program
7. Paid time off
8. Company Pension Plan
9. Disability Insurance
10. Maternity/paternity/parental leave support with top up option

At ERCO we believe in continuous improvement, not just with our processes, but with our employees too! We have an excellent L&D department who create and facilitate training courses for our ERCO University platform on all topics for the development of our people. We also help cover and encourage employees to take courses and attend conferences to further their knowledge and skillsets!

ERCO Worldwide is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to recruiting, developing and maintaining a diverse workforce in compliance with all applicable Human Rights legislation. We will make every reasonable effort to accommodate for disabilities made known to us by our employees and applicants. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know and we will make every reasonable effort to meet your needs. This opening is for an existing vacancy!

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