Cocoa Bean Manager

Mars Symbioscience is the global health & life sciences segment of Mars, focused on delivering evidence-based science. An idea incubator, Mars Symbioscience is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A., and through its business units, Mars Botanical, Mars Veterinary and Mars Plantcare, produces brands including WISDOM PANEL™, SERAMIS®, COCOAVIA™ and CIRKU™.


Job Description: Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, the Cocoa Bean Sourcing Manager’s role(s) is/are to be responsible for the sourcing of cocoa beans through the companies’ buying stations, the development and implementation of sourcing strategies and the management of supplier relationships for ensuring a continuous supply of good quality cocoa beans.

Main responsibilities
* Source beans within agreed quality specification and volume
* Drive cost reduction through improved process and procedures, lead effective negotiations through leveraging information, and establishing clear strategy.
* Provide on-going competitive analysis of commodity market, supplier base, competition and benchmarking,
* Work closely with suppliers to optimize quality and cost
* Execute supplier agreements in conjunction with Legal and internal clients to ensure contract term and conditions are in compliance with corporate and purchasing guidelines
* Organize and lead cross-functional teams to effective engage suppliers
* Develop and implement procedures to ensure controls are in place

Location: PT. Mars Symbioscience Indonesia, located in Makassar, South Sulawesi

Requirements:
* Strong leadership skills
* Excellent people management & building effective team, managing through systems
* Bachelors degree in a related held or equivalent
* 5+ years of experience in commodity sourcing, contract and supplier management, and managing people.
* Solid knowledge of procurement principle and methodologies and understanding of its independencies with finance, accounting, supply chain, research and development, manufacturing and time to market
* Solid knowledge and experience in strategic commodity sourcing
* Excellent negotiation and cost management skies with the ability to identify cost Gavin opportunities
* Excellent/effective verbal and written communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
* Flexible, team player, improvement minded, initiative taker
* Process oriented with the ability to define, document and continuously improve business processes
* Good command in English both written and verbal, and having good computer skills.

If interested, please send you resume to:
Jobs.indonesia@mss.effem.com