Opex Procurement Manager

About Umicore

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Powering the cars of the future. Giving new life to used metals. We are the leading circular materials technology company fulfilling its mission to create materials for a better life. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

About Umicore Battery Materials in Canada

Umicore is preparing to build a battery materials production plant in Loyalist Township, Ontario - the first of its kind in North America. The cutting-edge facility will be a critical part of Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. Throughout the design, construction, and operation of the plant, Umicore will be seeking a variety of professionals who share our passion for innovation and sustainability.

What you will be doing

For this new site, we are looking for a Procurement Center Manager reporting to the Opex Procurement Director.  In this role you will be responsible for leading the Procurement Center (PC) of Loyalist, providing leadership to both the Opex procurement team, the indirect materials warehouse team and the logistics team. You actively and autonomously drive and pursue procurement added value contributions to the internal departments while ensuring business alignment and fine tuning policies, strategies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the Opex procurement team of Loyalist to deliver on time and quality and ensure stability of the processes.
• Local category sourcing, contract implementations, supplier management, management of vendor master data
• High level follow up of internal and external warehouses of all sites in view of cost & efficiency
• Responsible to set up PC Loyalist procedures and standardization regarding Opex procurement and warehousing in alignment with UBM Support Service strategy and Umicore general procedures and guidelines
• Take a strategic and long term view in identifying and developing innovative sources and contractual arrangements, and establish the targets in alignment with internal departments
• Establish spend baselines and category profiles, inclusive risk assessment, supplier relationship management and procure to pay strategy
• Prepare and lead agreement negotiations in cross-functional teams.
• Ensure alignment with global & regional business strategies, overall procurement strategy and the projected added value plan
• Develop operations performance metrics, processes and targets in support of SLA’s towards the internal departments
• Ensure alignment of centrally developed standards, procedures, best practices with regional stakeholders/customers

Who we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Logistics, or other relevant education
• Minimum 5-7 years experience in procurement, at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Capable user of PC MS office applications & SAP systems
• Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
• Good mix of conceptual/strategic thinking and practical execution
• Performance and result oriented, internal customer focused, strives for continuous improvement
• Analytical and conceptual thinking and decision making; strong project and risk management skills
• Exemplary behaviour in ethics and integrity
• Strong communicator and interpersonal impact (influencing and persuading)
• Teamwork, collaboration & flexibility are important to you
• Strong leadership and people management skills, strategic orientation and thinking

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

Find out more information about our planned facility in Canada on rbm.umicore.com/en/Canada.

IF OUR BATTERY MATERIALS CAN BOOST THE RANGE OF E-CARS, IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD DO?

Umicore invites applications from all qualified individuals. We are committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcome applications from women, visible minorities, Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. We provide support in our recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant's accessibility needs. If you are contacted to participate in our recruitment process and require accommodation, please let us know.

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