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• Manage the analysis and reporting of direct purchase item spend in EMEA on materials and FX, inbound freight, and duty. Work with commercial and FP&A teams to ensure accuracy and transparency.

• Manage quarterly forecasts, budgets, and long-term planning within the region.

• Provide key insight EMEA procurement budget, including decisions on costs related to raw materials, packaging, co-packing, freight and duty, FX, and rebates.

• Track, report and validate EMEA direct and indirect CCI projects. Provide rigour and consistency to projects presented by the EMEA buyers, the CCI team, R&D and ensuring that the projects are correctly integrated into the respective forecasts.

• Lead business partner to the Consumer Solutions commercial and commercial finance teams in supporting the delivery of profit targets and commercial strategy.

• Manage information process for pricing negotiations with key customers, with direct effect on pricing/NSV.

• Provide informal support to analysts across our European countries.

• Support indirect procurement projects.

• Work with McCormick Center of Excellence on enhancements to reporting systems.

• Provide analytical & decision support to enable efficiencies in work capital (AP & Inventory).

• Ensure that SOX controls are completed on time and ensuring timely and accurate preparation of balance sheet reconciliations.

• Manage and develop a Procurement finance Analyst based in Poland and support a Supply Chain Finance Controller based in D&A.

• Maintain contact with Global procurement finance to ensure standardisation of process and policies.

• Strong business partnering and influencing skills.

• Ability to craft and communicate a story for complex situations in a clearly articulated manner backed up with appropriate insights.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work across multiple professional levels, cultures, and languages.

• Growth mindset on how to drive innovation, efficiencies and be a champion for Change as we evolve to the dynamic needs of the business following principles of McCormick Growth behaviours.

• Commercial Mindset with the ability to think strategically and understand business impact.

• Proactive approach to problem resolution with an ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.

• Ability to adapt and be flexible in the fast-changing FMCG environment.

• Strong analytical skills with an ability to handle complexity and achieve results.

• Strong interpersonal skills, with proven ability to build and sustain relationships at all levels of the organisation as well as leading and supporting an informal team.

• Demonstrable knowledge of ABC (Activity based costing).

• Strong IT skills: Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables), experience in working with a fully integrated financial/ERP system (SAP), good experience using Power BI advantageous.