Procurement Manager, Indirects, AMETA

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CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work‑life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Execute sourcing strategies across spend categories to ensure value creation, cost optimization, and risk management.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, ensuring high levels of performance, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Lead contract negotiations and manage supplier agreements, ensuring that contracts are aligned with global procurement policies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders (Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.) to ensure procurement aligns with business objectives.
• Monitor and report on supplier performance, implementing KPIs and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality goods and services.
• Manage cost reduction initiatives and identify areas for further cost efficiency and improvement across procurement categories.
• Ensure compliance with all procurement policies and regulatory requirements, providing guidance on governance and best practices.
• Support the implementation of global and regional procurement strategies, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals
• Lead, develop, and coach a team of procurement professionals, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration, ensuring the team delivers on its objectives and contributes to the overall success of the procurement function.

To lead and manage indirect procurement activities across the AMETA region, with expanded strategic scope including Indirect CAPEX and OPEX categories. The role will drive cross‑regional sourcing programs, sustainability initiatives, and adoption of global procurement systems (Previously managed by a global procurement systems team). Indirect categories tend to be complex with varying stakeholder needs, significant external spend and key relationships up to and including executive level.

The prime accountability for this role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in these categories are executed brilliantly with our vendors. This role will lead a team to deliver sourcing decisions with key stakeholders and will apply category management to support the maximisation of value, whilst minimising risk from all external spend and assuring quality of delivery and performance.

• Deliver Indirect Annual Savings Targets in line with Brambles Indirect Strategy for AMETA region
  • Tracking of approved actualised savings monthly.
  • Develop and manage project plans for all savings initiatives
• Develop and Implement Indirect Category Sourcing Strategies for SSA and ANZ
• Be the champion for Strategic Sourcing and share as part of monthly knowledge sharing sessions the methodology.

• Build relationships & credibility with All Business Stakeholders leveraging Indirects early in the process for required goods & services
  • Develop Stakeholder Communication Plan
• Consult regularly with Brambles Indirect category managers to understand developments in markets where intelligence data is limited to leverage scale and volume with suppliers driving initiatives and cost down
• Negotiations with Suppliers on all category / commodity price increases
• Communication and implementation of new agreed prices.
• Drive, Deliver and Implement all initiatives along with relevant…