Performance Acceleration Procurement Analyst

Job description

Performance Acceleration Procurement Analyst

“I want constant and diverse challenges to drive change”

Nestrade Procurement Division, Panama City, Panama
6 months to 1 year fixed term contract, 100%
Start date: January 2017

Who are we?

The Nestlé Group is the World's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. We have more than 2000 brands with 88.8 billion Swiss Francs in sales in 2015. We are a global brand with more than 335,000 employees worldwide, operating in 197 countries.
As an employer, Nestlé is extremely committed to growing talents internally and puts a strong focus on employee development.

Procurement at Nestlé:

To ensure that Nestlé achieves its objective of sustainable growth, a new Procurement Division is being created with hubs in Switzerland, Panama and Malaysia. They will provide a range of services, including the management of procurement for specific raw materials, packaging, indirect materials and other services. The hubs will also support markets with managing local spend.

As a Performance Acceleration Procurement Analyst you will provide support to the Procurement function on our transformation program to accelerate performance and organization efficiency.

What will be your key responsibilities?

·  Contribute to a global and major transformation programme for the Procurement function
·  Proactively use benchmarking, provide constructive challenge, and find innovative solutions to support our category leaders & managers in developing strong sourcing strategies
·  Collaborate and facilitate amongst the category, legal and tax team to develop contract transition plan
·  Develop relationships with stakeholders to plan and deliver the defined objectives
What is required?
·  Bachelor degree in Finance, Business, Engineering or equivalent.
·  1- 3 years hands-on experience in Procurement.
·  Successfully led projects, preferably cross-functional or above the market level projects.
·  Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel
·  Fluency in English, any other language is an asset.
Your excellent communication skills as well as analytical skills, details orientation accompanied with problem solving and ability to ascertain actions based on data will be crucial to your success in this role. If you have personal drive, high level of learning agility with a positive mindset then apply in English at www.nestle.com/jobs.