Group Purchasing Manager - Corrugated

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific has an opening for a Group Purchasing Manager supporting Strategic Sourcing & Procurement initiatives within the Corrugated group with both strategic and tactical purchasing experience.

Reporting to the Procurement Director - Packaging, this role will lead a team of eight direct reports responsible for purchasing operations.

The ideal candidate has strong leadership, supervisory and technical skills, builds positive relationships with customers and partners, and demonstrates a contribution mindset.

This is an onsite role based at GP Center in downtown Atlanta, GA or any Georgia-Pacific Corrugated facility, and will require ~30% travel.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities.

The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

What You Will Do



* Be a strong PBM Supervisor, including helping your team members self-actualize, fostering a positive and inclusive environment, and creating a high-performing team


* Connect to your role in and the value of achieving the visions and priories of SS&P and your customers, and work to ensure that your team members and stakeholders are equally connected.


* Contribute as a key member of both the Corrugated and SS&P leadership teams


* Develop, align, and lead strategic initiatives, commitments and supply chain strategies


* Be a champion of value-creating transformation, responsible experimentation, and of the change management required to make such efforts successful


* Work with a high level of positive, value-creating collaboration within and outside of your team, especially as it relates to working with other parts of SS&P and other capabilities.


* Lead and be accountable for purchasing operations processes across a large number of facilities


* Actively support the business' storeroom inventory efforts

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor's degree or higher


* Three years of purchasing or relevant operations experience


* Three years of supervisory experience


* Willing to travel ~30%

What Will Put You Ahead



* Bachelor's degree or higher in purchasing, supply chain, business, finance or engineering


* Supervisory experience including hiring talent into an organization and ability to coach and mentor employees


* MRO purchasing experience

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