Director of Global Materials Sourcing

Company Statement: Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision. We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce. We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth. Overview:
Responsibilities:

• Manage Global Spend of Resins and Direct Materials: about $1 billion in spend.
• Direct Global Strategy for resins by managing direct reports who have commodity responsibilities and dotted lines from other regions of globe who have regional accountabilities.
• Conduct yearly global bids for all GPC volumes.
• Identify and qualify new suppliers to drive value for GPC and our customers.
• Negotiate monthly market price changes to drive value and EBITA for the business.
• Facilitate new materials and market trends that keep GPC competitive in the market.
• Knowledge of Global market trends, pricing, and events for both all the raw materials to produce resins but the raw material components that make up the products.
• Support commercial needs with customer direct negotiations on resin sales price. These programs set and determine direct EBITDA contributions to company.
• Support Financial needs of GPC.
  • Forecast pricing for a twelve-month rolling business needs for each resin.
  • Set Budgets for upcoming year.
  • Understand financial impacts of all the price negotiations to benefit GPC.
  • Establish strategies to enable GPC to gain EBITDA throughout contract life cycle.
• Supplier Interactions
  • Develop and maintain relationships with all major suppliers up to and including the CEO level of these fortune 500 companies.
  • Work with Suppliers to develop BCP programs to protect GPC business in “Act of God” events.
  • Be on cutting edge with supply base for new material innovations.
  • Work to establish 3–5-year strategies for evolving food grade PCR needs.
  • Develop strategy for continuously lowering carbon footprint.
• Develop Direct reports management and category skills
  • Track global supply and demand balances of resin production, utilization rates, and regional trade volumes.
  • Understand in detail global and regional cost to produce end products.
  • Mock negotiations to prepare for supplier interactions.
• Work directly with BU Presidents and members of ELT team
  • Support new business cases and provide market guidance to team.
  • Support Sustainability needs of organization through driving to meet our ESG, PCR and Carbon goals.

Qualifications:

• 7-10 years procurement experience.
• Bachelor degree in Business or other related field
• Management experience
• Proven track record of delivering annual savings to business.
• Good Communication and Leadership skills.

Compensation Statement: The expected salary range for the position described in this posting is made in accordance with the legal mandates of certain jurisdictions within the United States. The final agreed-upon compensation is based on individual qualifications and experience. Benefits Statement: Benefits include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in the company’s 401K Employee Saving Plan and may participate in its Employee Wellness Program. Employees will also receive paid time off in accordance with company policy and state law requirements. EEO Disclaimer: Graham Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.