Procurement Business Partner Manager
Core
Key link between Indirect Procurement and assigned sites/business units, driving early engagement, demand shaping, governance, and value creation.
Role type
Senior Procurement Business Partner Manager
Builds
Procurement strategies, cost improvement plans, and sourcing effectiveness for Animal Nutrition and High Performance Polymers business lines.
Domain
Chemical manufacturing, industrial procurement
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Indirect procurement, demand shaping, stakeholder collaboration, cost optimization, procurement governance, supplier performance management, contract adoption, cross-functional partnership
Preferred skills
Procurement transformation, category strategy deployment, additional languages (Spanish, Portuguese, or German)
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Engage stakeholders early to understand business needs and shape procurement demand; Build partnerships with site leadership and cross-functional teams to align procurement activities; Identify cost-saving opportunities and support value creation initiatives; Support execution of category strategies and preferred supplier adoption; Promote procurement policies to reduce non-standard purchasing; Coordinate business requirements with Category Managers for sourcing activities; Support resolution of supplier performance and operational issues; Monitor procurement KPIs and compliance to drive continuous improvement
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
