Procurement Excellence Project Manager / Graduate and Early Career Starter (hybrid)

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We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world’s leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

This role allows you to work closely with the global Procurement team. You will have the opportunity to make a real impact on our business and actively contribute to our ambitious pursuit of growth.

We are looking for a highly motivated colleague with an agile mindset to become part of our Procurement team based in Aarburg, Switzerland. Your supervisor will be the Head of Procurement Excellence & Opertions Sustainability.

You will be part of our Graduate and Early Career Program (GEC) of 18 months, which enables you to:

• Deliver meaningful projects with impact on our local and global​ business – from the very beginning​ 


• Own responsibilities and challenging​ projects for you to accelerate your professional development​ and personal growth 


• Enjoy the opportunity to influence stakeholders, bringing strategic thinking and creativity into play to ​challenge the status quo​​, with exposure to senior leadership 


• Take on more responsibility after successful completion of the program, either in your current team, or in a different function/division/location based on your performance and available opportunities

Drive and support various procurement transformation projects, aimed at driving procurement excellence, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Your projects will vary in terms of content and breadth and will include:

• Drive and support activities for the ongoing implementation of the Procurement Operating Model and identified procurement capabilities.


• Identify, develop and execute activities to improve Source-to-Pay processes and required enablers, such as supporting tools, templates, and technologies.


• Drive the ongoing procurement people capability building and upskilling programmes and facilitate the overall change management agenda supporting the procurement transformation.


• Facilitate policy implementation, monitoring policy adoption and drive the agenda for procurement governance, risk management and compliance.


• Support the benefits tracking governance routines to ensure that procurement sourcing projects identified will be delivered against plan and annual savings targets.


• Define, execute, and embed the Supplier Relationship Management capability.


• Support the formulation of the category strategy, procurement strategy implementation and sourcing execution for Marketing & Communication and Human Resources (Corporate Services) categories, including:
  
  
  
  • Collection and analysis of data, specifically on category spend, current suppliers, service providers or marketing agencies to assess category opportunities and various impacts on all marketing and human resources group activities.
  
  
  • Map current suppliers, service providers or marketing agencies portfolio and spend for all Division per sub-categories directly impacted by the category strategy or business requirements.
  
  
  • Validate and challenge internal and external analysis (industry & supplier) defined in a cross functional sourcing team that may comprise of teams from internal business/functional stakeholders and procurement.
  
  
  • Contribute to the elaboration of the strategy for the respective categories.
  
  
  • Lead the preparation of the material for RFx (Request for Proposal/Quote/Information), including development of briefing documents, cost template and assessment criteria.
  
  
  • Support supplier selection and fact-based negotiations.
  
  
  
  

• You have completed your Master’s degree in Business Administration or Engineering or Supply Chain Management or equivalent


• You have gained your first working experience​​ (max 2 years)


• Languages: Fluent in English (written and spoken) is a prerequisite, other languages are an asset ​


• You demonstrate genuine interest in our business and are eager to discover and learn about different functions and roles within Franke​​


• You can function well in ambiguity and can manage multiple projects with varying levels of complexity


• You can function well in cross-functional teams/topics within procurement (Direct categories, Indirect categories and divisional procurement) and other functional areas (e.g. Supply Chain, Information Technology, etc.)


• You have good organizational, project management & change management skills


• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills​


• You are a team player and an agile learner​


• You are willing to push yourself out of your comfort zone 


• You are excited about being part of a global team and turning ideas into action


• You are proactive and you have a learning and committed mindset

• A set of challenging projects to lead with continuous exposure to senior leaders​


• Access to the FRANKE ACADEMY with a broad range of trainings to improve technical as well as soft skills and general knowledge of the company and products​


• Individual coaching from our coaching partner


• Individual mentoring from a senior leader​


• Shadowing a senior leader


• Support from a growing GEC community

Nadja Günthard, Global Head of Recruiting and Talent

For more information see: www.franke.com

Important information for all executive search companies, headhunters and HR consultants

The Franke Group does not accept unsolicited support from headhunters and personnel consultants for our career opportunities. Any CV/resume vitae submitted to Franke or its employees by external recruitment agencies without a valid written recruitment agreement related to the position in question shall be deemed the sole property of our company. In the event that a candidate presented by an agency is hired in our company and there is no prior agreement, no fee will be paid.