Responsibilities
- Implement purchasing tactics to ensure adequate supply of raw materials to meet production demand of plants.
- Achieve annual costs savings objectives and ensure costs to achieve Marginal Income target.
- Management of cash flow through achieving DPO targets.
- Maintain updated information on Supply & Demand for major raw materials and outlook on future pricing changes.
- Set and implement the relevant procurement strategy, based on the global procurement strategy.
- On a monthly basis provide accurate and timely pricing forecasts (Variance Rpt), update on cost savings in data base.
- Ensuring a practical execution of the new raw material qualification and supplier onboarding process
- Responsible for evaluation of Supplier performance through Scorecard system.
- Work closely with Procurement team in Riga on pricing updates, data management and other initiatives.
- Provide data analysis & support for procurement decision, process improvement in APAC.

Experience & Skills:
- Min. 5 years of procurement experience in the chemicals industry, which can be partially compensated by equivalent business, commercial, or technical experiences in the chemicals industry
- Familiar with petrochemicals feedstocks and raw materials markets, including supply demand balances and supplier cost drivers
- Experienced in managing fine chemicals (broader categories) from both tail Raw Material and vendor-wise
- Strong negotiation skills and analytical skills including excel sheet and pivot table proficiency. SAP experiences required
- Highly effective communicator, with influencing and conflict resolution skills
- English working professional (Additional languages are a plus).