Buyer Packaging

**Summary**:

- Develop, analyze and secure commercial agreements with packaging vendors that may guarantee / improve our supply chain procurement efficiency, assuring the integrity, innocuous and competitiveness of our products.
- Provide knowledge and understanding of market events that affect the cost of our packing.

**Responsibilities**:

- Create and establish reliable and efficient packaging procurement conditions.
- Keep and maintain vendor / pricing item catalogs up to date in our BaaN system.
- Search, develop and substitute products and/or strategic vendors that provide a leaner implementing process.
- Negotiate price, logistic terms and commercial conditions to improve or facilitate the packaging purchasing activities.
- Develop and implement Sustainable Packaging initiative.
- Review and analyze standard purchasing procedures to improve its operation and expediting efficiency.
- Retrieve and report strategic internal and/or market events that affect the purchasing cost.
- Provide timely solutions to the packaging shortages.
- Analyze and present category strategies, set and report milestone objectives advancements.

**Knowledge & Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) on International Business (Import-Export), Industrial Engineer, at a four or five-year college.
- 3 years minimum related experience in purchasing activities and project development.
- Negotiation skills.
- 100% Bilingual (Spanish/English).