Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop, implement, and execute global sourcing strategies for packaging materials and related supplier categories.
• Develop and execute supplier agreements that support business growth, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Lead sourcing events, supplier evaluations, competitive bids, benchmarking, and negotiations for packaging materials, components, tooling, specifications, and related supplier services.
• Partner with Packaging Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Planning, and Manufacturing teams to ensure packaging solutions meet quality, regulatory, capacity, service, and cost requirements.
• Establish collaborative relationships with packaging suppliers and their senior management teams.
• Hold suppliers accountable for performance through formal processes such as business reviews, action tracking, scorecards, quality reviews, and corrective action plans.
• Collaborate with supply planning, manufacturing sites, and external partners to ensure packaging material availability, continuity of supply, and reliable support for production schedules.
• Serve as an escalation point for packaging supplier, capacity, service, quality, and shortage-related issues impacting business continuity or customer service.
• Maintain a pipeline of cost reduction, productivity, packaging improvement, supplier consolidation, and specification optimization opportunities that deliver measurable year-over-year value.
• Drive projects that improve gross margin, working capital, service reliability, lead times, packaging utilization, and operational resilience.
• Provide detailed cost/benefit analysis, should-cost modeling, supplier performance reporting, and packaging cost analysis to support business decisions.
• Collaborate with Sustainability, Packaging Engineering, Operations, and Quality teams to identify packaging solutions that reduce waste, improve material efficiency, and support company sustainability goals.
• Perform other duties and lead projects as required.
Education and Experience: • Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, operations, engineering, packaging science, or related discipline; Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, or Packaging Science preferred.
• 8+ years’ relevant experience leading procurement categories in sourcing, negotiating, contracting, supplier management, packaging procurement, and project management.
• Prior experience in global strategic sourcing and supplier management for packaging materials using strategic category management techniques to achieve results.
• Strong understanding of packaging materials, packaging conversion processes, tooling, specifications, supplier capabilities, quality requirements, and relevant industry trends.
• Success in selecting suppliers and negotiating contracts that deliver robust, scalable, cost-effective, and compliant packaging solutions.
• Demonstrated track record of measurable cost savings, productivity improvements, and service-level improvements on an annual basis.
• Experience using benchmarking, RFx processes, cost analysis, should-cost modeling, and supplier performance tools to deliver successful negotiation outcomes.
• Must possess the social intelligence to influence and lead stakeholders and suppliers at senior levels within the organization.
• Ability to prioritize and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with cross-functional teams and global supply chain partners.
• Proficient with Microsoft Windows and Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Medical device, regulated manufacturing, life sciences, packaging, or global manufacturing experience highly preferred.
Skills/Competencies:
• Excellent supplier management skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Contract development and analysis skills
• Supplier evaluation skills
• Price, packaging cost, and should-cost analysis skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Project management skills
• Good risk management and business continuity planning skills
• Market and packaging trend analysis skills
• Strong strategic and long-range category planning skills
• Financial analysis skills
NOTE: This position is eligible for 100% remote working arrangements (may work from home/virtually 100%; may also work hybrid on-site/virtual as desired). #LI-Remote