Associate Manager, Procurement

**SC Johnson has a new opportunity for a Procurement Associate Manager based in Egypt/Turkey**

**ABOUT SC JOHNSON**

SC Johnson, a family company for the last 130 years, is one of the world’s leading makers of household brands. The company has operations in more than 70 countries and sells products in virtually every country around the world. We employ approximately 13,000 people globally and generate $10 billion in sales. SCJ’s product portfolio includes global brands such as Pledge®, Duck®, Mr. Muscle®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Glade®, Raid®, OFF®, Baygon® and Ziploc®.

At the same time, we’ve established a generations-long legacy of environmental responsibility, community leadership and providing great places to work. We do this because we want to do what’s right for our business today, and also what’s right for people and the planet tomorrow

**ROLE SUMMARY**

Reporting to the MENAPT Procurement Manager this is an exciting opportunity for professionals who have a desire to develop their career in a Procurement role in cross functional and regional teams to deliver the Procurement objectives (these include among others, Cost Savings targets, Cash improvements, Customer Service). The results are delivered by using Procurement skills, a ‘can-do’ attitude and ability to build relationships that help to influence across functional, cultural and hierarchical boundaries.

This role has direct Procurement responsibility for the overall performance and commercial relationship with selected portfolio of third party manufacturers. Working in multicultural, FMCG organization you will be exposed to MENAPT and global strategies and you will contribute to building a strong supplier base.

If you are passionate about Procurement and ready for challenges, we’d like to hear from you

Based in Egypt/Turkey, we can offer you a competitive salary and profit share as well as smart working. We care about the well-being of our people and other benefits.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Designing E2E supply chain with cross-functional team to make sure all the suppliers across MENAPT are having on time, in full deliveries to all production locations with the right quality.
- Proactively managing supply, quality problems, leading the communication with the suppliers, being the first point of contact to the internal stakeholders for all procurement related activities
- Identify and own the execution of new cost savings projects in order to deliver year on year cost savings.
- Collaborating cross-functionally to manage supplier transitions, minimizing the obsolescence, building the SLAs (service level agreements)
- Collaborate with procurement portfolio team to build and execute supplier strategy.
- Collaborate with procurement portfolio team to negotiate and deliver optimal supply agreements through the development of strong business relationships with suppliers.
- Manage price changes, price variances, cost cards, payment challenges etc.
- Work cross-functionally with other functions on different types of projects (NPD, restages etc.).
- Seek and share best practices and develop synergies in key areas such as market analysis, cost modeling, risk analysis and benchmarking.

**DESIRED SKILL REQUIREMENTS/COMPETENCIES / EXPERIENCE**:

- Education: BS Degree in Economics/Engineering/Supply Chain Management/Business.
- Four plus years of experience in a Procurement role or relevant Product Supply functions with proven track record.
- Fluent in speaking, writing, and reading English.
- Regional experience and cross-cultural awareness.
- Ability to work independently and manage results including business knowledge needed to achieve financial targets.
- Excellent negotiation, financial analysis, problem solving and project management skills;
- Analytical mindset, with good finance and cost saving understanding.
- Good communication skills and ability to build and maintain relationships both internally and externally, at all levels.