Procurement Expert
We are a diverse team of professionals dedicated to driving business success through strategic procurement. Our goal is to foster a collaborative environment where every member can thrive and contribute to our shared objectives.
The Global Procurement Center of Excellence (COE) plays a vital role in Edgewell's procurement strategy, engaging with category teams to develop sourcing strategies, manage risk, and improve processes.
This Procurement COE expert will focus on analyzing spend and material portfolios to provide actionable insights to category teams, enabling their strategies and sourcing decisions. This role will also support the manager in reporting for ethical and responsible sourcing.
The position requires close liaison with procurement category managers globally across multiple geographies and work cultures to understand process bottlenecks related to SAP price management and support / lead efforts for process improvements.
- Pricelist Management :
- Create and maintain documentation for procurement pricelist maintenance and best practices.
- Develop structured pricelists / templates for future updates and macros to facilitate periodic price updates.
- Maintain accurate pricing in the system, including admin programs for mass updating info records and purchase orders.
- Understand commodity trends' impact on prices and help the team challenge price change requests.
- SAP Data Cleansing :
- Ensure Purchasing Info Records (PIRs) and Source Lists data cleanliness by monitoring reports to block old info and create new where needed.
- Check and update specific information on PIRs, including Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ), Country of Origin, Lead time, validity date, etc.
- Workflow Automation :
- Automate repetitive analysis, tasks, and processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Collaborate with team members to identify areas for automation and implement solutions.
- Data Analytics and Reporting :
- Leverage data, analytics, specifications, complexity, and benchmarking to identify opportunities.
- Connect system analytics and draw insights for spend, specifications, spend per SKU, specs per family, etc.
- Build and maintain saving tracker reports.
- Support development of tools, process, and dashboard / scorecard reporting globally and regionally for PPV, CIP, ABP, etc.
- Create Reports and update current reports for the Procurement Team to utilize and drive insights into categories to support their strategies.
- Policies & Procedures :
- Work with procurement category leads to enable initiatives directed by the Head of the Global Procurement COE and / or the Global Head of Procurement.
- Training & Development :
- Develop internal training materials based on department and / or company initiatives and provide training sessions as needed.