Senior Buyer, Procurement Business Operations (Kingsford and Litter)

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Your role at Clorox:

As our Business Operations Sr. Buyer, you'll be part of a world-class Procurement organization that provides leadership and operational accountability for leading, collaborating, supporting, and bringing to life the procurement strategies across our Kingsford and Litter brands. This business and industry facing role will drive success factors such as Cost Leadership, Supply Resiliency, Growth through Innovation and Sustainability, and will play a pivotal role in delivering end-to-end value for the direct materials and external manufacturing spend portfolio.

In addition to your core responsibilities, you'll develop direct relationships and act as a vital bridge between internal and external partners to ensure that the needs and wants of the Business Units are reflected in our category strategies and executed as planned. You'll also play a critical role in addressing short- and medium-term issues related to services and quality performance, leading root cause analysis processes to identify continuous improvement opportunities.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and expand functional and transferrable skills using procurement tools and techniques to deliver value, such as negotiation and collaboration activities across the portfolio of Spend.
• Develop and expand your internal and external network of procurement and business professionals for career growth.
• Lead, support, and drive procurement strategies across our Kingsford and Litter brands, including Cost, Supply Resiliency, Innovation, and Sustainability. Includes active collaboration providing the voice of Procurement in various cross functional project teams.
• Lead activities related to managing supplier performance, including onboarding new suppliers, evaluating and monitoring supplier performance across a range of KPIs (Quality, Supply, Cost), and developing action plans to ensure continuous improvement performance across the Packaging supply base.
• Co-own ongoing supplier governance and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) with Category Managers.
• Co-develop and own the action plans crafted to address short- and medium-term issues related to Services and Quality Performance, ensuring business continuity is effective.
• Lead the root cause analysis process to understand continuous improvement opportunities.
• Act as the bridge between internal and external partners, ensuring the needs and wants of the business are reflected into the category strategies and executed as planned.
• Support actions required to address P2P issues, such as payments and invoices.
• Lead, support, and drive procurement strategy implementation across our Kingsford & Litter brands, including success factors such as Cost Leadership, Supply Resiliency, Innovation, and Sustainability. Includes active collaboration as the voice of Procurement in various cross functional project teams.  Develop and expand functional and transferrable skills using procurement tools and techniques to deliver value, such as negotiation and collaboration activities across the business units.
• Plans and leads sourcing initiatives for Wood Waste (Hog Fuel) commodity the includes but not limited to:
  • Develop a long-term sourcing strategy for wood waste (Hog Fuel) to support the Kingsford brand.
  • Understands wood waste commodity market and trends that supports budget analysis and reporting.]
  • Develop, negotiate, and management of wood waste (Hog Fuel) supply contracts.
  • Evaluate and negotiate wood waste pricing with suppliers

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What we look for:

• Ability to drive change and breakthrough performance improvement through teamwork.
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects/responsibilities and adapt to changing priorities as well as differing priorities with internal stakeholders
• Knowledge/Experience with Project Management and Sourcing / Procurement tools and methodologies, including organizational and negotiations skills.
• Strong initiatives – identifies opportunities and drives to resolution. Sets high standards of performance for self and others. Self-starter, eager to drive improvement and change. Takes ownership.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with multiple levels of management, both in