For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve the vital needs of a growing world. Today, we're one of the world's largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, with more than 33,000 employees serving customers in more than 140 countries. With a global value chain that includes more than 460 crop procurement locations, 300 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 40 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, making products for food, animal feed, chemical and energy uses. For more information about ADM and Its products please visit www.adm.com.
Fortune magazine named ADM the WORLD'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANY
in the Food Production Industry in 2015 & 2016.
Currently, due to organic growth & development ADM operations in CEE region,
we are searching for the best candidates for the role of:
Procurement Operations Specialist main mission will be to develop, validate, communicate and implement specific Procurement Operations-related projects. This includes acting as an ambassador of change, prepare communication plans and bring visibility on future steps and business enhancements; identify opportunities for increased productivity, standardization, automation, and/or value creation e.g. catalogs, contract optimizations, ways of working harmonization. Person on this position will set the direction for Procurement operations in the region towards world class organization, driving towards excellence by ensuring policies best practices are implemented and followed as expected and by providing P2P expertise to make the process leaner.
This position will also work to improve, extract, analyze, manage, and report Procurement related data in an easily understandable format for use by the Global Procurement team and its stakeholders.
- Partner with Global Procurement strategic sourcing team to deliver on annual cost savings targets
- Support the deployment of JD Edwards across EMEA
- Drive savings and WACC improvement through implementation of sustainable payment terms governance processes in partnership with the ADM Shared Service Center
- Partner with Strategic Sourcing to support the implementation and accelerated deployment of the Bravo Solution eSourcing platform
- Oversee the Global Procurement communication strategy (web, newsletter, etc.) across EMEA
- Enhance procure-to-pay processes across all ADM divisions, ensuring compliance with non-commodity procure-to-pay policy
- Responsible for new suppliers' onboarding process
- Lead support and training efforts on P2P process with location purchasing colleagues
- Improve, extract and analyze data from existing internal or external data sources, identifying problematic areas and conducting research to determine the best course of action to correct the data
- Interpret data/reports and develop recommendations based on findings
- Develop and maintain reports and dashboards used in Global Procurement
- Implement tools and processes related to overall supplier relationship management
The successful candidate will possess the following:
- Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
- 5+ years relevant functional experience in Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, Procure to Pay.
- Experience and ability to successfully lead projects across multiple countries and/or regions
- Strong capacity to ensure efficient procurement processes and ways of working
- Strong communication skills
- Good knowledge of change management
- Strong stakeholder Management capabilities
- Must be mobile due to travel expectations.
- Fluent in English, any other language is an asset.
We offer great career opportunities with a competitive remuneration package in a very international environment. We also offer great benefits package: private health incl. dental care, life & disability insurance, sport card, holiday, education co-financing).
