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Your role at Clorox:
The Procurement Category Manager creates, captures, and protects value for Clorox through strategic management of the Fragrances and Flavors raw materials category. This category has an approximate total annual spend of $40M–$70M and is vital to driving product differentiation and consumer delight. Key responsibilities include crafting global category strategies; modeling and forecasting costs; negotiating with and managing suppliers ranging from transactional to strategic; sourcing innovation; contracting; and partnering with Business Operations and Procurement Operations teams to provide Procurement thought leadership on global product development projects.
In this role, you will:
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Craft and drive procurement strategies for the Fragrances and Flavors raw material category across brands and geographies to focus on Cost, Supply Robustness, Innovation, and Sustainability. Translate business strategies and requirements into an aligned procurement category strategy.
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Identify and execute projects to improve value delivery across the spend portfolio.
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Manage strategic relationships with suppliers by discovering and providing insights on how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities to meet business needs.
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Uncover continuous improvement opportunities to advance the category such as design to value, cost models, and process mapping and by monitoring market dynamics, supplier competitive landscape, and category pricing/costing strategy.
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Partner with R&D to ensure the needs and wants of the business are reflected in the category strategies and implemented as planned.
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Support actions required to address operational issues.
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What we look for:
Years and type of experience:
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Three years of Procurement experience in a global, matrixed environment.
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Experience providing recommendations and updates to and interacting with senior leadership both internal and external to Clorox.
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Experience with Sourcing/Procurement tools and methodologies, including RFPs, Category Strategy development, Cost Models/Should Cost/Clean Sheet, Negotiations, and Contracts.
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Experience operating in a manufacturing environment.
Education Level/Degree
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, preferably Business, Economics, Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Biology, Food Science, Sensory Science, or related fields. Or equivalent working experience.
Skills and Abilities
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Leadership – Demonstrated experience driving positive results through teams in a challenging and fast-paced environment. Assertive and diplomatic, self-directed, able to manage up and down the organization effectively, and willing to hold self and others accountable. Ability to drive change and breakthrough performance improvement across a team. Sets or influences direction beyond own area of responsibility. Drives performance improvement across company.
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Commercial acumen – Ability to leverage procurement tools to deliver financial results.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Five or more years of successfully leading strategic procurement work for direct materials (i.e., raw materials or packaging) including category management, supplier relationship management, and commodity forecasting.
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Proven record of developing and implementing category strategies.
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Proven record of leading cross functional teams and driving consensus.
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Experience with e-sourcing tools.
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Experience in raw material category management, particularly fragrances, flavors, or herbs/spices/essential oils.
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Experience with CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) or FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry experience
We seek out and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a non-stop drive to keep growing and learning.
At Clorox, we have a Culture of Inclusion. We believe our values-based culture connects to our purpose and helps our people be the best versions of themselves, professionally and personally. This means building a workplace where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate in our Clorox community. Learn more about our I&D program & initiatives here.
Benefits we offer to help you be well and thrive:
- Competitive compensation
- Generous 401(k) program in the US and similar programs in international
- Health benefits and programs that support both your physical and mental well-being
- Flexible work environment, depending on your role
- Meaningful opportunities to keep learning and growing
- Half-day Fridays, depending on your location
Please apply directly to our job postings and do not submit your resume to any person via text message. Clorox does not conduct text-based interviews and encourages you to be cautious of anyone posing as a Clorox recruiter via unsolicited texts during these uncertain times.
To all recruitment agencies: Clorox (and its brand families) does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Clorox employees, including any members of our leadership team. Clorox is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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What We Do
Clorox is a global company with leading brands that have become household names: our namesake bleach and cleaning products; Ayudín® and Poett® home care products; Pine-Sol® dilutable cleaner; Fresh Step® cat litter; Kingsford® charcoal; Hidden Valley® and K C Masterpiece® dressings and sauces; Brita® water filtration products; Glad® bags, wraps and containers; and Burt's Bees® natural personal care products. We manufacture products in more than two dozen countries and market them in more than 100 countries. Clorox trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CLX.
