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Revlon Senior Manager, Direct Procurement in Edison, New Jersey

Description

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.

Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand.

Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics, skin care, hair color & care, personal care, and fragrances—is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

Responsibilities:

  • Under the direction of the Sr. Director, Center of Excellence, this role will help to drive consistency and best practices across the Global Procurement function. This role will be responsible for spend visibility reporting and working across the Global Procurement team with the category leads, Finance, and key business partners to ensure data integrity.

  • Work in conjunction with Global Procurement category leads to implement planning processes for key spend areas (e.g., raw materials, components, packaging, TPM and Indirect), integrating supply/demand market dynamics, supplier intelligence, should cost analysis as well as opportunities to leverage demand management and value engineering

  • Work closely with Finance to track savings progress and realization

  • Develop and monitor KPIs to measure and improve the effectiveness of the key elements of the procurement organization

  • Develop communications and reporting to track and communicate Procurement’s value contribution for Executive Team, brands and functions

  • Communicate and collaborate effectively with key internal stakeholders and other process leaders to drive stakeholder engagement and organizational change management

  • Ensure use of leading strategic sourcing methods and tools to support category leads in delivering exceptional total cost value creation and supply quality/assurance.

  • Work with teams to develop strategies to augment procurement impact on processes such as NPDs, Value Engineering, Make vs. Buy decisions, etc.

  • Evaluate external market intelligence and best practices for category sourcing leads to leverage

  • Leverage external benchmarking and intelligence to challenge status quo and identify incremental value opportunities

  • Drive continuous improvement and best practices and identifying process efficiency opportunities

  • Leverages existing and technology to automate the procurement function (e.g., Spend Analytics, eSourcing, CLM, P2P, SIM, etc.)

  • Update and maintain team sourcing templates (e.g., RFI, RFx, contracts, etc.)

  • Automate reporting to provide visibility into and track the compliance as well as results of deployed initiatives

  • Build policies and procedures to review supplier performance against contracted obligations/ service levels and business requirements.

  • Implement processes and tools to drive continuous improvements post project

  • Create, monitor and report on supplier management KPIs

  • Implement risk mitigation practices to anticipate, monitor and manage supply risk

  • Manage and optimize relationship with 3rd party Procurement service providers

Knowledge & Skills Required:

  • 5-10+ years global procurement experience in consumer products/high complexity environment

  • Proven, strong communication skills, both verbal and written

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Proven project management skills

  • Strong customer service ethic

  • Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills

  • Computer proficient (Microsoft Office, Excel)

  • Enjoys planning and focusing on the long-term

  • Interested in working collaboratively as a member of cross-functional team

  • Ability to drive change across the team through influencing • Commitment to development

  • Communication and creative thinking skills

  • Financial Analysis

  • Intelligent risk taking

  • Planning & execution (project management)

  • Benchmarking/competitive analysis

  • Product/Service knowledge of Supply Chain Management

  • Supply Management Process

  • Interested in continuously learning and developing oneself

  • Enjoys working with clients in meeting their needs; enjoys striving towards win-win situations

  • Enjoys thinking creatively and analytically

Minimum Education Required :

  • Bachelor’s degree required. Customer management. English proficiency. Global procurement experience.

Minimum Years Experience Required:

  • 5-10+ yrs. procurement/supply chain experience

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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