PURCHASING SPECIALIST

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Purchasing Specialist

Kemalpaşa, İzmir 

To manage the purchase of selected Ingredients sub-categories so as to ensure that the current and future needs of the Flavour & Foods businesses are met by Operations at the lowest imaginable cost.

Role includes the responsibility for developing, communicating and obtaining support for creative, rigorous and successful strategies for Ingredient procurement that exploit McCormick’s geographic leverage effectively and appropriately.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Minimise total cost of Ingredients purchases through use of professional procurement methods and best practice to identify major opportunities for cost reduction and service enhancements to the business. Report on defined savings projects, forecasts and results through the company agreed tool.
• Select and develop best in class suppliers to meet business needs identified through cross functional teams within the business.
• Ensure price negotiations, alternative suppliers and contingency plans
• Assist cross-functional teams/project leader to meet price and timing targets for the development of new products.
• Communicate vendor management programme to suppliers to ensure they understand and meet cost, quality and service level targets.
•  Responsible for the development and cross-training within the Procurement Department and promote the use of Total quality and Creative Problem Solving techniques to resolve problems and drive continuous improvement. Linking with EMEA Procurement activities & developing 3 -5 year plans. More insight for Budget & Long term financial planning.
• Develop systems, processes, and procedures for the McCormick Kütaş to ensure effective and efficient procurement standards are maintained.
• Maintain purchasing systems and produce reports to ensure accurate management information is available to make business related decisions.
• Tracking Customs and Agricultural and Ministry Service regulation for Foreign trade.
• Responsible of all importing procedure, preparing documentation and duty-levy rate calculation.
• Reducing import cost and arranges best shipment organization of goods.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Experience in FMCG and food production work environment
• Track record of achieving results
• Ability to deal with complexity and change
• Customer focused
• Strong team player

Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.

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