Procurement Buyer Package

The PKG buyer is responsible to procure secondary and tertiary packaging with compliance to Hershey Global Procurement Policy, meet Hershey’s specification and business needs with most favorable prices through comprehending marketing intellegience, selecting appropriate supplier, negotiating competitive price, and generating &implementing saving project.

Summary of major duties:

MATERIAL PROCUREMENT

• Ensure all sourcings are conducted in compliance with Hershey Global Procurement Policy with proper documentation, processes and meet company systems requirements.
• Source competitively –negotiate with suppliers for most competitive price, monitor pricing movement and review price reguarlly.
• Manage Contract- support procurement manager and partner with legal to negotiate and modify contracts, prepare and route for approval.
• Support Innovation Project Development - Assist internal customers in identifying requirements, specifications, gather documents and provides support to facilitate the progress during the development stage as well as ensure the availability of products.
• Ownership of supplier relationship - ensure concise communication between Hershey teams and suppliers, includes but not limited to Hershey requirement, feedback, timeline, and follow up proactively to drive the result.

PRODUCTIVITY & CONTINUOS IMPROVEMENT

• Contribute in develop Productivity Strategies & Pipeline to achieve CI target.
• Follow up on CI projects implementation (manage timelines, next steps, activities, and ensure task completion).
• Support cash flow objectives, renegotiate payment terms to achive cashflow improvement target.
• Hold suppliers' accountable for their respective CI goals, payment terms extension, measure performance.
• Update productivity pipeline data and cashflow improvement achivement, and ensure appropriate reporting and forecasting

DEVELOP RISK MANAGEMENT&SOURCING STRATEGY

• Understand the Business and Supply Environment. Monitor market situation and supplier operation status to identify potential risk includes but not limited to market volatility, geopolitical situation and operational risks.
• Analyze the occurrence probability of the risk and the impact vele, as well as developing the category risk management strategy.
• Develop sourcing strategy include spend category analysis, market research, identify and assess potentiall supplier and supplier selection.

SYETEM WORK, DATA & REPORT MANAGEMENT

• Review of Purchasing Info Record, purchase record and requirement data.  
• Provide accurate record and analytical report includes but not limited to annual budget (STD/Strat), PPV (Purchase Price Variance), spend report, CI Report, ESG related reports. 
• Evaluate supplier performance through score card and annual performance review. Timely update and share quarterly Scorecard results by 1st month of each quarter, provide frequent feedback to suppliers and monitor for improvement on Scorecard result.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in any discpline

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum 2 years progressive business experience with 1+ years prcurement experience