Senior Commodity Paper Manager (Finance)

Work Hours: Monday - Friday Standard Business Hours

Location: Remote

As our Senior Commodity Paper Manager, you will:

• Works with paper broker to support responses to client RFPs, work with Lakeside's sales team to promote paper services.
• Work with business units to determine why a supplier is needed; volume, budget, duration, skills, services, market knowledge, certifications, alternative options.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the supply base as it maps to Lakeside's global demand over the next 3+ years,
• Identify gaps in Lakeside's direction vs. industry. Provide recommendations to address gaps. Include contingency plans & risk analysis,
• Identify potential suppliers; industry intelligence, existing suppliers, recommended suppliers, specialty certifications, requests from suppliers on file.
• Screen and Select Suppliers; Conditions of use; one-time or repetitive, geographic, capability, capacity, or back-up. Certifications; diversity, associations, regulated products and materials. Financial stability, market position, growth potential, etc.
• Work with suppliers and paper broker to obtain lowest total cost solutions that meet the Business Segments' requirements, including price, pay terms, services, and ongoing productivity improvements
• In accordance with corporate guidelines, establish contracts that include pricing, NDA, service commitments, terms & conditions, and other necessary elements to mitigate risk and to document the agreement. Manage contract and relationship with paper broker
• Management approvals, communicate supplier information to Business Segments, classify suppliers in various systems, documentation collection and filing (W9, certifications, remit to information), transaction setup (SAP / PO, invoicing), supplier training to function in Lakeside's systems.
• Evaluate supplier's performance; spend (compliance to classification and agreement), expectations (Quality, delivery, service, cost savings, pricing, productivity, innovation), Compliance (regulated products & materials, certifications). Provide updates to contacts, remits, COI, contract renewals. Reporting (regulatory, spend review, adherence to agreement).
• Work closely with Sales and Pricing organizations to recommend customer paper pricing and sales strategy
• Help maintain internal systems and data involving paper cost and pricing

Qualifications:

• College degree in discipline related to functional work, or demonstrated ability to meet the job requirements through a comparable number of years of applicable work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain with relevant work experience in all types of printing paper products, and other print related materials.
• Ability to act as an advocate for Lakeside's requirements with suppliers
• Excellent communication skills with ability to respond to sensitive supplier issues with professionalism
• High proficiency in computer skills, especially procurement systems and aptitude to learn additional systems
• Good analytical and computational skills for price evaluations and spend analysis
• Negotiating, contracting, and supply chain skills are critical
• Certifications highly preferred: CPM or CPSM through ISM