Buyer - Italy & See Cluster

**About us**

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 119 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 26,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.

As we move forward, our consumers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

**The role**

**Key accountabilities**
- Support in developing process & procedures set up, procurement way of working with the business, reporting and communication rules and suppliers’ management processes.
- Support in ensuring proper Local & Cluster SEE projects, suppliers sourcing for Local & Cluster Indirect services & materials, equipment maintenance with savings opportunities investigation and delivery.
- Ensure the suppliers relationship, contracts & transactional activities are managed within the procurement procedures directives and agreed processes design across the Cluster.
- Working with CoE Indirect & GBS Teams, to obtain a competitive advantage with key suppliers and execute the globally managed categories strategy.
- Work on correct suppliers’ selection process and suppliers’ base development.
- Identify, analyze, and monitor benefits from suppliers and implement best practice.
- Be compliant to the global and local company policies.
- Produce Risk reporting and provide visibility of risks to enable prioritization & identification of contingencies and business continuity plans.
- Help in procurement team development and best practice’s introduction.
- Support in building stable suppliers base with key and strategic suppliers partnering.

**Key Relationships**

Internal
- Procurement Country Manager
- Procurement Business Partners (Europe Region)
- Procurement CoE & GBS
- Stakeholders across SEE Cluster Markets (including P&C, Finance, CLA and IT)

External
- Supplier key stakeholders

**Skills & experience**

**Behaviours, skills, knowledge required**:

- Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Categories management skills
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Analytical, with good presentation skills
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders across all levels.
- Business process understanding and improvement.
- Improvement identification and contingency control
- Procurement best practices implementation
- Compliance controlling experience.

**Desirable**
- University degree mandatory
- 3-5 years experience in Procurement (preferably in FMCG)
- Very good English knowledge (writing and oral)
- Cross cultural & international experience is preferred
- Ability to travel within SEE Cluster and some international travel may occasionally be required

**What we offer**

Imperial Brands offer a competitive package of salary, bonus scheme, pension, holidays as well as hybrid work.

**Next steps