Procurement Category Manager CAPEX - Arla Head Office, Leeds

Arla Foods Deutschland GmbH; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Procurement Category Manager in Leeds, where you will play a crucial role in managing CAPEX projects across a global network. This position offers a unique opportunity to combine your strategic procurement expertise with your engineering background to drive impactful investments in dairy production. You will work alongside diverse teams, fostering relationships and ensuring the best value for projects. With a commitment to training and development, competitive benefits, and a dynamic work environment, this role is perfect for someone eager to make a significant difference in the dairy industry.

Benefits

26 days holiday & Bank Holidays

Pension contribution matched up to 6%

4 x annual salary life assurance

Single BUPA cover

Free onsite Gym

Access to discounted products

Flexible Benefits

Cheese hamper at Christmas

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years’ strategic procurement experience.
• Solid understanding of driving various CAPEX projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead CAPEX projects, collaborating with global teams.
• Develop and launch RFQs/RFPs for supplier selection.

Skills

Strategic Procurement

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation

Project Management

Commercial Awareness

Education

Relevant Degree in Engineering

Tools

RFQs/RFPs

Contract Management

Job description

Procurement Category Manager CAPEX - Arla Head Office, Leeds

Location: Leeds, GB

Procurement Category Manager – CAPEX

LS10 1AB

Can you combine a solid commercial understanding with a dairy engineering and technology interest and are you looking for a job where you have global responsibility and high impact?

If so, this is your opportunity to join Arla’s Procurement team and be part of an exciting transformation journey and create value for our dairies globally. This opportunity is based at our Head office in Leeds and you will report to our Procurement Senior Manager.

“You will join a global team spread across Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Poland, Bahrain, Riyadh and Hong Kong. Here, you will be part of the Procurement team responsible for sourcing Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) projects for Arla’s ~60 production sites. We are today a team of six professionals and are looking forward to welcome our new colleague. Our team buys a broad range of investments for Arla globally which could be everything from a new milk filling line to a complete building and we are currently in a growth period with exciting investments ahead of us” says Tevfik Ektas as the hiring manager.

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary (salary discussed at application stage)
• 26 days holiday & Bank Holidays
• Pension contribution matched up to 6%
• 4 x annual salary life assurance
• Single BUPA cover
• Free to use onsite Gym
• Access to discounted products in our Staff Shop
• People agenda commitment to training and development
• Flexible Benefits- buy up to 5 days additional annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
• Most importantly - Cheese hamper at Christmas!

How will you make an impact?
As our new Procurement Category Manager you will be working closely together with global procurement colleagues, engineering & technology, project management teams and business stakeholders to:

• Be the first point of contact in CAPEX projects for your region, both towards Engineering & Technology and many other stakeholders such as Arla IT. Typical deliverables:
  • Review and create transparency on CAPEX pipeline.
  • Supplier collaboration including escalations.
  • Ad-hoc commercial tasks.
• Develop and launch RFQs / RFPs (request for quotation/proposal) for CAPEX projects to select suppliers in targeted categories and countries. Typical deliverables are:
  • Analyzing the proposals considering best value and total cost of ownership. Make recommendations to key internal stakeholders and give commercial direction to the project team.
  • Negotiating the quality, time, and cost of solutions as well as other commercial terms and conditions.
  • Draft project contracts, service agreements, lead contract ratification activities, assuring interaction with suppliers and Legal teams.
  • Change order support.
• Applying your procurement skills and engineering know-how on strategic, tactical and operational levels, along with supporting the business on various commercial tasks.

As this role involves close collaboration with various production sites, procurement colleagues and suppliers, frequent travel is to be expected.

What will make you successful
Your background covers a minimum of 7 years’ of strategic procurement experience supplemented by a relevant degree, preferably within engineering. You have a solid understanding of the complexity of driving projects of various sizes, which you may have acquired from working with procurement or another relevant field, preferably in the dairy, building/construction industry or similar. Previous experience within civils procurement and Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) is a strong advantage.

You have well-versed stakeholder management skills and know how to develop strong relations with people across cultural borders and with various backgrounds. This includes applying a sound business understanding, an open mindset, strong collaboration skills and the ability to adapt your communication directly to all levels of the organization.

Personally, you see yourself as an outgoing, independently working change agent with a strong drive and win-win approach. You are motivated by achieving your goals both independently and in close collaboration with others. You are a team player who thrives in a dynamic, global environment with many stakeholders and are perceived as a role model on both behavior and work competencies as well as a problem solver by colleagues. Lastly, you are fluent in written and spoken English as the role involves a large global network.

Would you like to join us?
Please apply as soon as possible. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the right candidate is found. For additional information, please contact Procurement Senior Manager Tevfik Ektas at [e-mail] or Talent Acquisition Partner Olivia Pine at [e-mail].

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?