Global Procurement Manager

Overview:
**About PepsiCo**

**PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.**

**Global Procurement Manager - Ingredients**

Leading Indochina Ingredients category
- Defining and executing the ingredients strategy, contract management and supplier relationship management
- Measuring and Improving Performance
- and Achieving Annual Plans and Delivering Productivity

**Responsibilities**:
**Accountability**
- In close collaboration with the Indochina MSO, draft & implement Indochina Ingredients category strategy, using systematic 7 step strategic sourcing approach
- Participate and lead cross-functional category team, using RACI model
- Manage category on a regional level and leverage from PepsiCo’s scale in the region
- Work closely with Sector & Global teams:

- To develop category annual and long-term strategic sourcing targets
- Plan and monitor category Productivity / Savings (for the current year and over SBP)
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives from procurement side for the category
- Evaluate & evolve sourcing strategy based on changing market conditions and provide inputs during strategic sourcing activities, including internal and external analysis and negotiations.
- Ensure implementation of sourcing strategy / plans, compliance monitored, and benefits tracked (in close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and in line with the procurement policy & practices
- Closely liaise with business Key stakeholders in Indo China Foods businesses.
- Sell category strategy to business stakeholders; one focal point to represent Ingredients category internally (peer level) and externally (suppliers)
- Ensure implementation of best-in-class sourcing tools, relevant to the category.
- Lead category negotiations and manage contracts with suppliers
- Track supply market, share evolving category trends, monitor supplier performance and share benchmarking against industry / market standards

Qualifications:
**Qualification**
- Degree qualified
- Minimum 10 years+ experience in a senior Procurement Category Management position
- Proven technical procurement category knowledge of to ensure the continued adoption and use of best practice approaches
- Sound knowledge of supply market fundamentals
- Preferred CIPSA or CPIM supply chain qualification highly desirable
- Proven influencing skills to positively impact complex negotiations
- Excellent balance of analytical & negotiation skills
- Contract writing / risk analysis / liabilities and indemnities / SLA’s / and general commercial terms
- Sound understanding of SAP and P2P Governance and Controls
- Able to communicate business strategies to suppliers as well as internal stakeholders
- Effective people leader including ability to lead cross functional teams
- Track record of being able to drive cross-functional support and resources for projects to deliver results on time.
- Effective project manager who is able to articulate and escalate hurdles quickly and keep driving the projects forward.
- Strong collaboration/matrix management
- Understands and manages key business drivers
- High integrity: won’t compromise values to get results
- **Location will be based in Bangkok