Mgr Purchasing Raw Materials & Ingredients

Leads the Purchasing team to source raw material requirements for all ingredients in Mary Kay bulk and finished good products. Ensures the team meets Procurement initiatives that are inclusive of sourcing raw materials cost effectively and meeting all established quality, regulatory and delivery requirements. Leads compiling and analyzing data to leverage spend and determine feasibility of buying raw materials/commodities from new or qualified sources across the globe. Establishes price objectives, and analyzing price trends; interfacing with suppliers to analyze factors that impact prices. Executes sourcing strategies across the globe for ingredients that meets competitive pricing targets while maintaining the highest level of quality standards and supply sustainability. Responsible for supporting the regions sourcing of local ingredients based on the approved raw materials specification. Leads the team’s responsiveness to new product development initiatives from the Brand Development and Product Formulation teams. Responsible for supplier management to execute against key Procurement and Supply Chain key Initiatives.

Purchasing Supply Development and Direction:

•Responsible for the managed spend of $40-65 million of high-quality raw materials that is strategically sourced globally to meet the Company targets for lead-time, on-time delivery, quality performance, and cost requirements.

•Manages and reviews additional activities of the Purchasing Buyers including Requests for Quotations, compiling and analyzing data to determine feasibility of buying commodities, establishing price objectives, and analyzing price trends. Responsible for the analysis to ensure supply capacity can meet global requirements.

•Use data driven analytics to lead team’s approach to financial analysis of commodities to impact lead-time metrics, purchase price trend (PPT), Purchase price variance (PPV), and raw material commodity trending. Understand primary Global feedstock supply situations (environmental impacts, manufacturing impact) and its impact on pricing.

•Requires regular intervention and problem resolution between short project lead times, changing demand from key markets and production issues at suppliers. Leverages technical and industry-based knowledge to improve engagement with key internal business stakeholders and top management of suppliers to reach optimal resolution to supply problems.

•Responsible for ensuring team develops a cost reduction program that focuses on effectively minimizing price increases, controlling the cost of sales for new products and reducing costs via negotiations as well as alternate source initiatives.

•Oversees team interactions with internal stakeholders such as Brand, Research and Development, Program Management, Commercialization, Package Engineering, Quality, Global Inventory Control and Supply scheduling.

•Interacts when necessary with departments in the Company to ensure the Alternate Sourcing process for raw materials meets the requirements through the identification of credible sources that have long term viability. This includes supplying all required documents and samples as required for approval.. Interacts externally with suppliers to resolve supplier performance problems including product quality, price, and service delivery requirements.

•Responsible for evaluation of supply base to execute contractual agreements for all key suppliers. Ensures that annual contracts meet global business needs and uses knowledge of Mary Kay processes and functional relationships to navigate new agreements and renewals through Legal review. Understand Supplier’s Business continuity Plans and Supply agreements for critical ingredients.

Product Development Project Execution:

•Leads the buyer team in its interactions with Planning, Commercialization, Quality Systems and Processing Operations, Finance, Package Engineering and Research & Development for every new product development project. Utilizes knowledge of Mary Kay business and technical expertise to navigate varying business needs with each project and lead the buyers to estimate timeline requirements that minimize resource time while ensuring that supply will fully support the new product launch.

•Interfaces with Brand Development teams to ensure that raw materials meet cost targets as outlined in the project justification. Intervenes for buyers when necessary to reach resolution of conflicting cost realities, bulk cost targets.

•Leads buyers in collaboration with Material Planning and Inventory Control to implement the phase out of existing raw materials and the phase in of new products’ ingredients while minimizing obsolescence.

•Work closely with Research and Development, Global partners, Planning, Supply scheduling, and Contract Manufacturing to ensure sourcing strategy for raw materials are aligned accurately, so raw materials can be ordered via supplied lead-times and project timeline required dates.

•Manages the business evaluation process for new suppliers and uses extensive business and financial skills to ensure that the supply will be sustainable and that the supplier is financially strong enough to sustain the supply chain. Partners with Quality Systems to ensure all audit requirements are met

•Manages submission of standard cost initiations to Finance for any new raw material commodity.

•Interfaces with internal stakeholders to ensure that raw material specifications have been agreed to

•Relies on thorough understanding of departmental relationships and linkages to ensure efficient team interfaces with Research and Development, Contract Manufacturing, Package Engineering, Program Management, Product Safety, Analytical Research and Claims, Process Development, Commercialization, Quality Assurance, Microbiology, Finance, Transportation and Compliance, as well as Legal Operations to effectively plan, and if necessary, resolve issues potentially impeding the department’s ability to continue progress with a project.

•Will align to coordinate all project tasks and respective deadlines. Requires Manager to understand critical dates related to Project or Supply execution deadlines          

Regional Support:

•Collaborates with Purchasing counterparts at Mary Kay China and Mary Kay Latin America to achieve optimum solutions for cost and supply

•Manages global projects through analysis of supply base that consists of both local and global suppliers. Will ensure that sourcing strategy includes supplier capacity, financial analysis and negotiations. Ensures that the strength of Mary Kay’s global volume is fully leveraged in price negotiations with suppliers

•Consults with the Latin American region team in the evaluation and understanding of supplier capabilities as well as best practices in Procurement.

•Collaborates with R&D to select raw material suppliers possessing materials that deliver desired finished product results and that are capable of providing the required quality, flexibility, reliability, and pricing as outlined by Mary Kay Inc. for all manufacturing locations.

Staff and Department Development

•Selects, trains, and develops Buyers (levels I-IV) to ensure sound business practices and ethical behaviors are followed. Evaluates technical skills and competency of staff and creates training plans accordingly.

•Utilizes personal expertise and knowledge to train and develop staff to remain abreast of technology advancements, industry standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), etc.

•Develops succession planning and conducts performance reviews.

•Establishes, reviews, and implements purchasing policies and procedures and ensures SOPs and Job Aids are up to date and well documented.

•Works closely with leadership to identify organization strategy and implement objectives with the team.     

•This job requires on-site work at a Mary Kay facility.