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Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position overview:

You act as the main point of contact for metal/RSI/scrap/slugs price maintenance and daily metal pricing updates, as well as support Global category managers in running tender processes and leads small category of spend like Printing consumables and Alloying elements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing savings activities and preparing spend reports.
• Market analyses for various categories of spend - lumber, gas oil, HDPE, cardboard, wood pulp, steel, copper and alloying elements – report distributed monthly.
• Collecting and analysing bids from suppliers.
• Business continuity planning and contract management.
• Reporting LME and Premium daily/monthly - price database maintenance through various platforms.
• Scrap/Slugs/Virgin/Recycled metal price confirmation – validating pricing with suppliers and internal finance team.
• Manage full category of spend – Alloying elements/Printing consumables.
• Act as Procurement point of contact for co-ordinating process improvements and reporting/dashboard development. 
• Supporting e-Sourcing events in Coupa. 
• Collecting sustainability KPIs from suppliers.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in a similar role within a Procurement function in a multi-national company.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across functions and cultures.
• Stakeholder and supplier management experience.
• Knowledge of SAP, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
 

No agencies please.