Fabric and Home Care Purchasing Manager

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The Purchasing (Supply) job family encompasses roles responsible for ensuring reliable and sustainable supply of materials through supplier relationship management, capacity planning, and operational excellence. These roles drive supplier performance, digital capabilities, forecasting improvements, and supply chain development to enable business growth, supply continuity, and superior business results.

This role is responsible for Fabric & Home Care (F&HC) Printed Packaging materials. The position provides ownership of supplier execution, digital transformation, and supply chain capability development to ensure reliable, efficient, and sustainable delivery of packaging materials across the business. The successful candidate will develop and lead the F&HC Material Execution Team (MET), building organizational capability while driving cross-functional alignment and execution of critical supply initiatives. This role serves as the F&HC Supply Purchasing Digital Champion and is accountable for advancing digital tools and processes that improve supplier collaboration, visibility, and operational performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the Fabric & Home Care Material Execution Team (MET), building team capability while ensuring effective execution of supply strategies, risk mitigation plans, and cross-functional business priorities.
• Partner with suppliers and multifunctional teams to identify process improvements, resolve supply issues, and deliver business continuity.
• Serve as the F&HC Supply Purchasing Digital Champion, driving adoption and continuous improvement of digital supplier tools and capabilities.
• Expand and strengthen digital supplier inventory connections to improve visibility, responsiveness, and supply chain decision making.
• Standardize, maintain, and enhance supplier scorecards to improve performance management, governance, and supplier accountability.
• Drive supplier compliance with key business metrics, reporting requirements, and operational performance expectations.
• Provide supply purchasing leadership for new packaging supply chains, including capacity planning, business continuity planning, and SLEA creation and development and qualification of corrugated packaging solutions.
• Lead initiatives to improve forecasting accuracy, Below the Line (BTL) planning processes, and supplier capacity planning capabilities.
• Utilize data, analytics, and digital tools to drive operational excellence and improve supply reliability, service, and cost performance.
• Support innovation, transformation, and sustainability objectives through effective supplier collaboration and execution.

Key Skills & Experiences

• Supplier relationship management and performance leadership.
• Supply chain execution and material planning.
• Digital transformation and systems implementation.
• Cross-functional leadership and influence.
• Project management and change leadership.
• Data analytics and performance management.
• Forecasting, capacity planning, and supply risk management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Job Qualifications

Required

• 2 years of minimum experience in purchasing supplier relationship management and performance leadership.
• Bachelors Degree in Purchasing, Business, or equivalent degree
• Supply chain execution and material planning.
• Digital transformation and systems implementation.
• Cross-functional leadership and influence.
• Project management and change leadership.
• Data analytics and performance management.
• Forecasting, capacity planning, and supply risk management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

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