Job Title:  Indirect Procurement Assistant Manager

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #164337 - Ben Cat town, Binh Duong, Viet Nam

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

Do you want to come to work with a smile and leave with one as well? In between those smiles, your day consists of working in a global organization, continually learning and collaborating, having stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions!

If this is how you see your career, Colgate-Palmolive is the place to be!

Our diligent household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. The pride in our brand fuels a workplace that encourages creative thinking, champions experimentation, and promotes authenticity, which has contributed to our enduring success.

The Indirect Procurement (IP) Assistant Manager is an effective and valuable member of the local management team, and works to ensure delivery of subsidiary business results. This position owns the IP process at the Plant for supplier sourcing, building strategic partnership, bidding, and support contracting governance for indirect materials/ engineering services and other key IP projects and deliver IP critical metrics including Funding-the-growth, capital savings, supplier management and digital procurement.

Core Responsibilities:

• Build and Implement the strategies for Indirect material and service for all categories (Supply, Demand and Professional) related to plant to balance supply and demand at efficient total delivered costs.
• Leads the people and Procurement processes to deliver performance objectives, as measured by corporate, division and local performance key indicators.
• Leads segmentation strategy development and ensures creative and effective execution of sourcing on major indirect materials and purchases, ensures implementation of Continuous Improvement programs with suppliers (i.e. Supplier Certification, etc)
• Accountable for the development, implementation, and monitoring of the Procurement budget.
• Works with systems support personnel to ensure greater utilization of Ariba, EAM, SAP throughout the Procurement organization.
• Accountable for adhering to all Colgate - Palmolive's guidelines related to EHS, Quality, and Regulatory. Additionally, ensures compliance with local and global ethical business practices, the integrity of the business process related to materials, and commercial and corporate behaviors.
• Acts as a functional resource, providing support on task forces, acquisition studies, and major project support.
• Develop detailed understanding of market structure/ insights and drivers for materials, with risk management overview, and identification of opportunities and threats for the future.
• Lead Quality/FP&R/EHS standard: refer to R&R matrix detail for each standard.

The Individual

Education:

B.A./B.S. Degree in a technical or business field, CPM and/or MBA desirable.

Experience:

5 - 8 years:  Procurement or Supply Chain experience, with 3 years of management experience.

SAP/ Ariba experience will be preferable

Good at English

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Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

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