Wella - Manager - Indirect Procurement

ABOUT "WELLA":

- "Wella" is one of the world's leading professional and retail hair companies.

- It is a beauty collective with a mission to enable consumers to look & feel like their true self.

- Its love brands, which include beauty icons such as Wella, Clairol, OPI, and ghd (all together "Wella"), are co-created by & designed for the beauty junkies of today & tomorrow.

- Following the signing of an agreement with global investment firm KKR for the divestiture of Coty's Professional and Retail Hair businesses, "Wella" is on its way to become a fully independent, standalone company with its own management team and operational structures.

- At closing, our new company will have presence in over 100 countries and an estimated annual net revenue of $2.3Bn.

- "Wella" and its brands, are and will remain committed to a range of social causes as well as seeking to minimize its impact on the environment. For additional information about "Wella" please visit https://www.wellacompany.com/

About "Your Function" - Procurement:

- At Wella Procurement you are responsible for bringing in the best ideas, talent and capability to support the company's business needs. You will develop and execute sourcing strategies which deliver the best value in terms of innovation, quality, service, cost and cash.

- We invest in our relationships: procurement teams develop and manage important external business partner relationships to enable the delivery of the company's plans and growth objectives.

- Working with your Wella colleagues you will represent our business needs toward external business partners and be an active advocate who also flows ideas from our external partners into Wella teams. You will work to enable an agile and effective supply chain for all our goods and services, responsive to the changes in our business.

- At Wella we strive to continuously improve the environmental and ethical profile of our supply chains working with our business partners to deliver this in a truly sustainable way.

- We operate with discipline. We have a solution mindset. We work to understand and help solve the challenge, one step at a time.

The Role:

- In this role, you will report and work closely with the APAC Indirect Senior Procurement Manager to develop and implement strategic sourcing of Indirect spend in India and across APAC.

- You will lead end to end procurement projects, following the 7-steps process, from need definition to supplier selection and management.

- You will also work closely with global procurement, to give insight on local market trend, supplier portfolios and business trends, support the development of global category strategies, with the objective of maximizing value, innovation, growth and efficiencies, while enabling business partners' strategies.

- You will initially focus on India spend as first priority, and will also support APAC Indirect Procurement Manager to build up APAC sourcing pipeline in short term and long run.

- You will be acting as key procurement contact point for India, and will work closely with regional senior manager and business leaders to reinforce indirect procurement policy adoption and compliance.

- As per Wella compliance governance, the Procurement Manager will play a critical role in enhancing compliance governance in indirect spend sourcing process. In the long run, you will be also supporting APAC sourcing activities for other APAC countries.

Key Responsibilities:

- Support the defining and development of APAC indirect spend, India as priority at beginning.

- Provide category and market expertise and guidance to the business.

- Lead end-to-end procurement initiatives and projects.

- Ensure all procurement activities comply with company policies and relevant laws and regulations.

- Contribute to execution of the financial Strategic Plan of the Business Services spend pool.

- Work closely with key internal stakeholders to ensure business wide buy into all category's initiatives.

- Support the contractor selection process including robust knowledge of tender management.

- Lead suppliers and contracts negotiations.

- Coordinate selected solution roll-out leveraging project and change management tools & processes.

- Lead spend analytics activities and work closely with stakeholders to continuously identify new project opportunities

- Support and lead some Supplier Relationship Management activities to secure supplier performance and enable additional value creation.

Qualifications:

- Minimum 5 years of indirect procurement experience in multinational company, with a good understanding of marketing spend, professional services and IT/Digital spend management.

- A Bachelors / Masters degree in Economics, Business or Engineering. MBA advantageous.

- In-depth understanding of procurement processes and supply chain management.

- Strong compliance awareness, familiar with relevant laws and regulations.

- Strong team spirit and ability to collaborate across functions.

- Excellent analytical skills, negotiation skills, strategic thinking and collaboration skills.

- High level of reliability, personal integrity, autonomy and ownership.

- Strategic, structured, pro-active and solution-oriented way of working.

- You are business driven, pragmatic and results-oriented.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Strong ability to communicate complex topics in concise terms to various stakeholders including C-Suite.

- Ability to draft clear and effective recommendations and defend them.

- Ability to work across cultures with all levels of organization as well as with different functions.

- Fluent in English, both written and spoken required.

- Willingness to travel as needed to implement the requirements above.

- Ability to detect risk areas and red flags.