[Hiring] Timberland Procurement Senior Manager @Brambles

Role Description

The role will support the Global Procurement leadership in finding, contracting, and developing projects with Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMO’s), Timberland Real-Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Plantation Management Companies for the competitive supply of timber into sawmills.

Role will be supporting the project management of a forestry and industrial project in Tabasco Mexico.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Develop and execute sustainable category sourcing strategies for the region/function that align with global and local procurement priorities.
• Act as a champion for strategic sourcing, ensuring that procurement initiatives deliver long-term value and meet organizational needs.
• Lead category management for key spend areas, applying data-driven insights, market intelligence, and advanced procurement techniques to maximize value and minimize risk.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior business stakeholders, ensuring procurement is involved early in the sourcing process.
• Lead complex negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms and manage pricing strategies.
• Oversee supplier performance management across key categories, ensuring suppliers consistently meet performance, quality, and cost requirements.
• Ensure all procurement activities adhere to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and ethical standards.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the procurement function, ensuring alignment with annual targets.

Qualifications

• Adaptability
• Category Strategy
• Contract Management
• Cost Management
• Empathy
• Experimentation
• Market Analysis
• Procurement Strategies
• Procurement Systems
• Responsible Sourcing
• Risk Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Supplier Management
• Supplier Performance Management (PM)
• Taking Ownership
• Teamwork
• Understand Customers

Requirements

• Delivers timber-related projects identified by the global office on time.
• Help develop new sources of supply globally.
• Identify opportunities to partner with TIMO’s, REIT’s and Plantation Management Companies.
• Map the landscape of TIMO’s, REITs and Plantation Management Companies.
• Assess and recommend the selected suppliers for timber covering multiple regions in the Americas (USA, Canada, Central and South America).
• Support the execution of contracts or SLA with the chosen partners.
• Forestry and sawmilling project management.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model

Company Description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential.