Senior Packaging Procurement Leader - Flexible Packaging

Church & Dwight; Ewing Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Basic life insurance

Paid vacation and sick time

Paid Parental Leave

Paid holidays

Floating holidays

401k with company match and profit‑sh?

Disounted ESPP

Job summary

Church & Dwight is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager for Flexible Packaging to lead sourcing strategy across Fabric, Home and Personal Care brands like Arm & Hammer, OxiClean and Orajel. The role focuses on supplier relationships, category strategy, contract negotiations, and resiliency initiatives.

You will partner with stakeholders to drive cost savings, supplier diversity and sustainability, while guiding a high-performing team and delivering measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive Procurement and/or Supply Chain experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of category management experience within Packaging Procurement.
• Demonstrated success developing sourcing strategies, leading supplier negotiations, and delivering cost, quality, and service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification and selection of packaging suppliers, ensuring they meet standards for supply assurance, service, cost, quality, sustainability, responsible sourcing and supplier diversity.
• Primary point of contact for all key stakeholders, owning all operational activities related to the sourcing and supply of flexible packaging used in manufacturing.
• Identify and execute strategic initiatives within subject categories assuring supply, driving resiliency and optimizing cost and value creation for the organization.
• Partner closely with key stakeholder teams to understand critical business requirements and develop strategies for key procurement initiatives.
• Develop category strategies for respective spend categories: spend analysis, define requirements, market research, category analysis, risk analysis.
• Manage and execute all steps of the six-step sourcing process including developing strategies, negotiating with suppliers, bid analysis, supplier selection.
• Own supplier contract development and execution, leading negotiation with suppliers in collaboration with Corporate Legal Team.
• Provide aggregate reporting on category performance and metrics such as purchase price variance, supplier service, material quality, and cash flow.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Stakeholder management

Cost optimization

Negotiation

Supply chain analytics

AI literacy

Power BI

Excel

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

APICS CPIM

CSCP

Tools

SAP/ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Job description

Church & Dwight is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager for Flexible Packaging to lead sourcing strategy across Fabric, Home and Personal Care brands like Arm & Hammer, OxiClean and Orajel. The role focuses on supplier relationships, category strategy, contract negotiations, and resiliency initiatives.

You will partner with stakeholders to drive cost savings, supplier diversity and sustainability, while guiding a high-performing team and delivering measurable business value.