pladis Global
Head of Procurement - Packaging, UK&I
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis, you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
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The Procurement Function
The Procurement function is made of 130 professionals working across the world to create competitive advantage for pladis through long and mid-term sourcing strategies and strong supplier relationships. Our 2026 Procurement vision - Beyond the Stars - aims at delivering more value for the business along 5 key business deliverables: Supply Continuity, Cost Out, Cash Flow Optimization, Sustainability, and Supplier Innovation.
We work as a matrix organization, with Global Categories leveraging the pladis global size and Regional Procurement ensuring a strong connection and proximity with our 3 regions: UEA (UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia & New Zealand), Turcamena (Türkiye, Central Asia, Middle East & North Africa), and International (Asia, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa).
Within UKI Regional Procurement, the Head of Packaging reports directly to the UKI Procurement Director, who in turn reports into the UEA President. (S)He drives (in alignment with Global Packaging Procurement team) the Packaging Category (70 M£ spend). In addition, the role will play a key part in the Regional Procurement Leadership Team, developing strategy and leading procurement change initiatives.
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Key Responsibilities
- Implementing all Procurement-driven processes & tools within your categories
- Delivering top-class results across all 5 strategic dimensions of our mission via UKI Packaging team
- Building strong SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) with strategic suppliers, to build long-term relationships
- Supporting your team with the contract execution when significant breaches of service/quality are identified
- Leading AOP (budgeting process) for packaging, and key cost-model assumptions (labour, energy, chemicals, etc.) in collaboration with Global Procurement
- Ensuring that successful negotiations and supply agreements are implemented and managing all contracts for local sub-categories
- Managing the supply base performance and leading issue resolution
- Understanding the market fundamentals on a regional and global scale to develop key supply partners to support pladis growth agenda
- Being the face of Packaging procurement actively across pladis UKI and Global Procurement
- Establishing the regional category governance framework aligned with global standards and policies
- Reviewing and reporting all Packaging activity in the pladis endorsed format aligned to the business drumbeat
- Leading all regional sourcing and purchasing activities for the Category and managing all internal relationships as required to deliver against the regional sourcing strategies and savings targets
- Implementing and providing input for the category management strategies set by the Global Team for cost reduction or value improvement that result in tangible benefits to the bottom line.
- Managing a team of direct reports to deliver against our 5 key strategic deliverables
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Essential Skills
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
- Significant experience in Procurement (with a proven success in running a Category at regional or global level, in a worldwide organization) ideally within packaging
- Ability to deal with ambiguity within a complex and multicultural environment
- Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams, with a collaborative mindset.
- Natural leadership & influence skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to be hands-on operationally as well as building a long-term strategic vision
- Available to work in Chiswick 3 days a week / travel on request to factories & suppliers.
Desirable Skills
- Proficiency in another language is a +
- Previous work experience in matrix procurement organization.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit a candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
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