Head Of Sourcing Turkey

About the Role

Reporting to the Vice President of Sourcing in our EEMEA organization, the Head of Sourcing Turkey will secure the supply of raw materials (cocoa, non-cocoa) and indirect sourcing & packaging for the plant in Turkey.

Key Responsibilities include

• Being responsible for all raw material and packaging material buying activities of 1 plant in Turkey. Supporting the global team and local stake holders on indirect material sourcing. 
• Leading the team of 1 raw material buyer. Defining their tasks, setting the strategy, monitoring the performance, coaching and developing the team. Working with other Turkey functional heads to drive the total success of business.
• Owning country financial KPIs like margin improvement, cash flow, trading business, etc.
• Working with global team to analyze the cocoa, dairy, sugar, fats &oil international and local markets to identify trends and opportunities to define the best strategy to cover commodity
• Actively searching for internal and external benchmarks to compare the prices and to improve the purchase conditions; Set up the purchasing strategies guided by VP Sourcing EEMEA
• Evaluation and selection of the suppliers, negotiation of terms for major purchases; commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) that are in the organization’s best interest. Planning new supplier audits with QA, participating and realizing them in a defined period.
• Managing the local supplier relationship to get best value (beyond price). 
• Planning (based on sales forecast), negotiating and executing purchasing of raw materials, including risk management, administration involved and pricing updating/controlling (RPS)
• Assisting Product Development and R&D teams in sourcing required components from preferred and new suppliers to develop new product.
• Liaising with functional or operational area leads (for example in sales, production, or engineering) to understand their current and anticipated demand for goods and materials and developig plans, cost estimates, and schedules for integrating these needs into existing purchasing activities
• Preparing reports for supplier evaluations and improving supplier performance by tracking and giving feedbacks to suppliers
• Support to customers and salespeople when needed considering market intelligence and raw material price negotiation
• Co-operation with logistic department considering stock utilization, raw material flow
• Driving activities, program on sustainability and meet company forever chocolate sustainability commitment. Report on performed actions on a monthly basis
• Ensuring compliance to purchasing processes and contracts.

About You

• You bring a level of Bachelor / Master in Business Administration, Supply Chain or similar
• 10+ years of work experience of which 5 in a similar role
• Knowledge or specific business understanding
• MS Office / SAP
• Fluent in English and Turkish
• Excellent communications, strategic sourcing skills
• Excellent people skill including team management and stakeholder management
• Proactive
• Resilient
• Proactive and high learning agility