Strategic Indirect Purchasing Manager | Spend Optimization

Robertet Canada; Mount Olive (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Robertet-Inc in Mt. Olive, NJ, is seeking a Manager, Indirect Purchasing to lead strategy for indirect spend across multiple functions. You will drive supplier negotiations, category management and cost savings initiatives.

You will develop procurement policies, manage a team, and collaborate with Finance, IT and Operations to optimize spend and risk management while ensuring compliance with ISO 9001 processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, or finance required.
• 6–8+ years indirect procurement experience preferred.
• Experience leading competitive sourcing events and supplier negotiations.
• Strong Excel and ERP/procurement system proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a comprehensive indirect procurement strategy aligned with corporate goals.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs and RFPs for significant indirect purchases.
• Lead supplier negotiations and contract management.
• Develop supplier performance metrics and conduct regular business reviews with strategic suppliers.
• Collaborate with Finance to improve spend visibility, budgeting and procurement reporting.
• Manage and develop Indirect Purchasing Coordinator(s) or Buyer(s).

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation and influencing

Financial and commercial acumen

Category management

Contract management

Data and spend analysis

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Change management

Leadership and talent development

Education

Bachelor's degree: Supply Chain/Business/Finance

MBA or advanced degree a plus

Tools

Advanced Excel

ERP/procurement system proficiency

Job description

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Manager, Indirect Purchasing

Finance Full-Time Regular Manager Mt. Olive, NJ, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 2092

Salary Range: $100,000.00 To $133,000.00 Annually

Share Our Purpose. Be Yourself. Feel Valued.

People are the heart of our business. Robertet fosters an environment of support and collaboration, and this is what makes this company truly special. We live by our core values of Passion, Excellence, Daring, and Caring. Our mission is all about sparking emotions, embracing sustainability, and futuring Naturals.

As a Robertet employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals. Employees are encouraged to make a difference in their local communities with a chance to participate in a paid volunteer day, supporting initiatives that drive change.

We are Beautifully Different! We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds.

Robertet S.A. was founded in 1850 in Grasse and is the world leader in natural products. Based in France and mainly family-owned since its creation, Robertet Group is controlled by the Maubert family. Robertet is the only perfume, flavor, and natural ingredient company that is fully integrated throughout the entire creation process, from the source to the final perfume or flavor. Today, Robertet Group is represented in more than 50 countries, has approximately 2,400 employees worldwide, and offers its customers a range of more than 1,700 natural materials and tailor-made products created in one of its 15 global creation centers.

Our Purpose

For Robertet, Nature is a craft deeply rooted in excellence. In the passion for the ingredient. It’s the seed of a family spirit, carefully passed down from one generation to the next. A seed that has grown sustainably to offer tailored customer support.

SUMMARY:

The Manager, Indirect Purchasing, is responsible for developing and executing strategy for all indirect spend categories, ensuring supplier performance, risk mitigation, and measurable cost savings and value to the business. They are a strategic procurement partner to departments including Finance, IT, HR, Facilities, Operations, Marketing and other corporate functions by leading sourcing, supplier negotiations, and contract management for indirect spend. The role is expected to move the organization beyond transactional purchasing toward a disciplined, strategic approach to indirect spend management.The Manager is expected to serve as the subject-matter expert for indirect procurement and operate with a high degree of autonomy, independently evaluating spend, developing sourcing strategies, leading supplier negotiations, and executing cost-savings initiatives with limited day-to-day direction.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define and implement a comprehensive indirect procurement strategy aligned with corporate goals
• Establish category management frameworks across key spend areas (including freight and logistics, manufacturing and laboratory supplies, MRO, Facilities, I.T., service contracts, and other indirect categories)
• Analyze company spend to identify savings, consolidation, sourcing and supplier optimization opportunities.
• Partner with functional leaders to understand business requirements, forecast purchasing needs and develop procurement strategies.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs and RFPs for significant indirect purchases and services.
• Lead supplier negotiations involving pricing, commercial terms, service levels and other business requirements.
• Partner with Legal and functional stakeholders in the negotiation, execution and management of supplier agreements.
• Develop and maintain preferred supplier strategies and reduce unnecessary supplier fragmentation.
• Establish competitive bidding and supplier-selection processes for significant expenditures.
• Develop business cases and total-cost-of-ownership analyses to support sourcing recommendations.
• Establish annual procurement savings and value-creation objectives and provide regular reporting against results.
• Identify cost avoidance, cost reduction, demand management and process-efficiency opportunities.
• Establish supplier performance metrics and conduct periodic business reviews with strategic suppliers.
• Monitor supplier financial, operational, compliance and business-continuity risks.
• Ensure appropriate procurement controls, authorization processes and competitive bidding requirements are followed.
• Partner with Finance to improve spend visibility, budgeting and procurement reporting.
• Develop procurement dashboards addressing spend, savings, supplier concentration, contract coverage and procurement activity.
• Oversee supplier onboarding and vendor governance processes.
• Establish and maintain contract and renewal management processes to reduce financial and operational risk.
• Develop and continuously improve indirect purchasing policies, procedures and workflows.
• Educate managers and employees regarding procurement policies and appropriate purchasing practices.
• Support annual budgeting and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Manage and develop Indirect Purchasing Coordinator(s), Buyer(s) or other procurement staff, as applicable.
• Collaborate with global or regional procurement teams to leverage purchasing scale and global supplier relationships where appropriate.
• Perform other strategic indirect procurement initiatives as assigned.
• Understand and execute all necessary requirements for ISO 9001
• Remain accountable for all defined responsibilities for ISO 9001 process flows

COMPETENCIES:

• Strategic sourcing
• Negotiation and influencing
• Financial and commercial acumen
• Category management
• Contract management
• Data and spend analysis
• Strategic thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Executive communication
• Change management
• Leadership and talent development

Key Performance Indicators

Performance may be measured through:

• Annual realized procurement savings
• Percentage of addressable spend under procurement management
• Contract coverage
• Purchase-order compliance
• Procurement cycle time

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance or related discipline required/preferred OR 6–8+ years of progressive procurement, sourcing or supply-chain experience, including, significant hands-on experience with indirect procurement.
• 2+ years ofcategory-management,project-leadershipand people-management experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading competitive sourcing events and supplier negotiations.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements and partnering with Legal on contracts.
• Demonstrated record of achieving measurable procurement savings and cost avoidance.
• Demonstrated experience independently managing indirect spend categories, preferably including freight/logistics, manufacturing and laboratory supplies, vendor management, and service contracts.
• Strong understanding of strategic sourcing, categorymanagementandtotal-cost-of-ownership principles.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Advanced Excel and ERP/procurement-systemproficiency.

Preferred:

• MBA or advanced degreea plus.
• Experience with global suppliers or global procurementorganizationsa plus
• Experience working in a manufacturing organizationstronglypreferred.
• Experience supporting multiple locations and/or North American operations preferred.
• Fragrance/Flavors/Ingredients background and knowledge

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS:

Reasonable accommodation may be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities in order to perform the Essential Duties & Responsibilities of the position so long as it does not impose significant difficulty or expense on the company.