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The Role:

We are looking for a dynamic individual who has sufficient years of procurement experience, working within a fast-paced environment, ideally from within the Luxury Cosmetic or Personal Care industry, with a focus on e-commerce. The Procurement Manager, North America will be responsible for sourcing and cost reduction within all Procurement Categories (Direct & Indirect), with f90% of the focus on Indirects.

Take a lead role in influencing both central and regional key stakeholders towards a category plan which theyve helped develop across the teams, including a pipeline and roadmap for delivery.

This role will have regional responsibility supporting the Head of/Category Managers from the central team, with regional sourcing for global contracts. The ideal candidate will have a broad spectrum of Procurement experience across all categories, in particular within store design/VM/fixtures and fittings in luxury stores, and concessions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for development and delivery of the Americas sourcing strategy, working with regional leads to deliver a plan in agreement with the Procurement Director.
• Spend Mapping of all associated spend data to support sourcing strategy, including deep dive analysis of spend within America entities.
• Taking a lead role in working with regional stakeholders to develop a local sourcing plan and project roadmap.
• Project managing regular supplier cost initiative meetings with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as Supplier Relationship Management at a regional level.
• As part of category strategy identify risks and consolidation opportunities within supply base, including specification of needs vs. wants.
• Analyze the current supply base with key operational stakeholders and present alternate solutions that optimize business growth and improve business efficiencies.
• Developing and owning in agreement with the Global Procurement Director, Cost Initiative reduction targets on a 12-month rolling annual basis.
• Forecasting, monitoring, and reporting on all assigned cost initiatives monthly, including ownership within the Cost Initiative pipeline tracker, and associated rebate tracking.
• New supplier sourcing and tendering programs with development and monitoring of full 12-month sourcing pipeline.
• Negotiation of terms and conditions for supplier contracts, managing inputs from operational stakeholders and liaising with legal team to ensure contracts signed within appropriate timescales, including contracting with legacy suppliers currently not under terms.
• Develop and implement regional procurement/sourcing processes to ensure maverick spend minimised, and multiple similar vendor set-ups consolidated.
• Set-up and manage credit checking contract as part of risk management policy.
• Support the global SPM Excellence & Process in drafting and rolling out key procurement/sourcing policies within the business.

Reporting Relationships:

• Direct Reporting line to Global Procurement director (Magic Office - London)
  
• Dotted line to Head of Indirect Procurement (Magic Office London

Requirements

Key Selection Criteria:

COMPETENCY MUST HAVES:

• Learning Curve - Capability to quickly take on board and disseminate new data/info around operational business needs and quickly develop into a sourcing plan of action.
• Attention to Detail Able to work in a fast-paced environment, without making unchecked errors across a wide range of cost initiative projects at the same time.
• Managing Priorities - Ability to commit and deliver against deadlines agreed, where there will be multiple priorities to consider and manage.
• Project Management Must be conversant with both sourcing tenders/RFP processes as well as VAVE project management with suppliers. Ability to manage both external and internal stakeholders to deliver a project on time, with significant associated savings.
• Commercial acumen - Must have strong negotiation skills with clear demonstrable consistent cost saving achievements both from tendering and negotiation, as well as project managing value engineering cost initiatives.
• Autonomy Must be able to take responsibility for own resource time, prioritizing biggest bang for your buck and ownership of delivery, with minimal direct support.

EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS:

• Thorough knowledge of US cosmetics market, supplier capabilities and competitor activity at a regional level.
• Previous procurement experience within Cosmetic or Personal care business.
• Previous experience supporting both Direct & Indirect categories either within retail.
• Previous experience and expertise supporting both SD & VM Indirect category is absolute must, plus ideally having another category expertise in one of the following: Marketing, PR & Events, Tech, Influencer Agencies, Creative production, Travel.
• Must have developed and implemented Indirect category strategy reviews and category plans.
• Quarterly KPI development and Supplier Monitoring as part of QBR process.
• Must be conversant with and developed strong, tender briefs large value-complex projects.
• Strong data analysis capability to support category strategy development.
• Sound legal contract knowledge and experience.
• Must be comfortable working with ambiguous and/or incomplete information to achieve a significant cost-benefit result.
• Demonstrated use and implementation of source to contract e-sourcing tools a distinct advantage.
• Building a procurement team from the ground up/Greenfield prior experience.

Benefits

Base Salary Range: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00**

Company Benefits:

• Generous staff discount to use on all products
• Access to Tilbury Treats our very own rewards platform allowing you to save money and gain money cant buy discounts on anything from gym memberships to cinema tickets
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Commuter Benefits (Pre-tax)
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with Company match
• Paid Time Off
• Birthday PTO

**Charlotte Tilbury, in good faith, believes that this posted range of compensation is the accurate range for this role at the time of this posting**