Global Sourcing Specialist

Company Description

Remember the last time you opened a bottle of champagne, a cold beer after a hard day’s work or a bottle of sparkling mineral water to quench the thirst, well it was probably made by us, we are O-I and we love that we make more glass containers than anyone in the world.

O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

**Job Description**:
**Scope & Impact**:
This position will provide hands on, direct support for the procurement of Capital and Services for 11 plants in the Central and Andean business units (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).

**About the role**:

- The person holding this position is accountable for:

- Strategically sourcing capital equipment, MRO and related services
- Managing and implementing procurement projects to support the operations of our plants in the Central and Andean business units (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) plant operations
- Ensuring best practice and best total cost of ownership.

**This position can be based in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador or Peru.**

**Reporting Relashionships**:
This position reports to the Global Sourcing Manager, Capex

**Qualifications**:
**Your responsibilities**:

- Develops and executes strategic sourcing activities for assigned spend categories, leveraging industry best practices, commodity experience, sourcing methodology and global partnerships whenever possible, under the supervision of the Team Lead - Capital & Procurement Manager.
- Develops RFI / RFP / RFQ activities for new and existing requirements.
- Procures material from vendor in a cost effective manner while remaining consistent with quality, delivery, and project priority
- Negotiates vendor contracts to meet business requirements and ensuring compliance with legal standards
- Manages supplier performance in order to meet all quality and delivery requirements
- Implements sourcing projects across multiple plants for standardization, preferred supplier utilization, cost savings and operational efficiencies
- Researches and analyzes quotations received, selects or recommends vendor
- Analyzes and reports preferred vendor utilization, savings project completion, supplier savings validations, inflation, inventory history, utilization/consumption, etc.
- Develops and tracks KPI’s /metrics including EBIT cost savings, working capital and inflation.
- Proactively resolves issues (ie, material shortages, quality issue, etc) with vendors and internal customers utilizing organizational savvy and problem solving skills.
- Takes proactive approach to resolve issues with vendors and internal customers utilizing organizational savvy, strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Builds trust based, service oriented, value added relationships with suppliers, internal customers, teammates and cross-functional departments
- Assists and / or leads special projects as required / assigned.
- Delivers cost savings to EBIT, CASH and Cost Avoidance targets

**Technical & Soft Skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or related-area. Capital Equipment/Construction/service experience and knowledge of the local markets (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) preferred.
- Minimum 3 - 5 years procurement experience (proficient in negotiations, contract management, and strategic sourcing process).
- Proficient analytical and computer skills (Excel, Powerpoint, SAP, Business Warehouse, Microsoft Suite, Ariba contract management).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (English & Spanish)
- Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Strong strategic and analytical skills
- Project management skills
- Excellent time management skills & ability to address multiple projects across multiple plants simultaneously.
- Strong sense of prioritization in highly dynamic environments
- Hands on, can do attitude and self-motivation
- Demonstrated successful stakeholder management and influencing skills as well as cross-functional connectivity

**TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS**
- 10% of working time

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.