Position Snapshot
Location: La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Company: Nestlé Global Procurement Division
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent role
What we offer at Nestlé:
- Exciting opportunities to develop your career your way; across different brands, businesses, functions, and regions.
- Flexible working arrangements - facilitating creativity and collaboration.
- A culture of respect, with diversity, equity and inclusion at its core.
- A dynamic international environment empowering you to learn, develop and grow.
Don’t hesitate to connect with us during the recruitment process to learn more.
Position Summary :
As a Procurement Controller, you will be part of the Group Procurement Controlling team responsible for Services and Indirect Materials (i.e. Marketing, IT, Corporate Services, Technical Equipment and Logistics).
You will support the senior procurement controller in advising the Global Category Leads for the spend in scope as a trusted co-pilot driving the development and implementation of the global sourcing strategy to deliver sustainable and competitive cost advantage to the businesses. You will also handle financial reporting providing end-to-end visibility around costs through relevant analysis for informed decision making.
Global Procurement at Nestlé:
As a strategic partner to our businesses, we drive sustainable growth and unlock long-term value. With over 40 different nationalities based across our three dynamic hubs in Switzerland, Panama, and Malaysia, we operate on a truly global scale. With a strong focus on innovation and deep commitment to sustainability, we’re shaping the future of procurement. Our diverse teams lead with purpose, ensuring value creation through responsibly sourced supply across a broad range of direct and indirect categories. Join us and Be a Force for Good.
A Day in the Life of a Procurement Controller:
- Support the Procurement controlling team in financial reporting and forecasting activities.
- Help and proactively facilitate strategy formulation and communication of concerned spend categories.
- Consolidate financial inputs and assess risks & opportunities to engage in scenario planning.
- Review and validate proposed savings initiatives along with project owners.
- Enhance ESG controlling and reporting capabilities.
- Provide functional support to Market / Business Procurement Controllers.
- Ensure compliance towards internal Nestlé Standards and Guidelines
- Drive continuous improvement and best practices.
What will make you successful:
- A formal financial qualification of appropriate level in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration.
- A first experience in Accounting / Finance function – preferably in Costing and/or Operations Controlling.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to extract and summarize information quickly when faced with large datasets.
- Ability to communicate financial aspects clearly and concisely to various stakeholders in a network organization.
- Willingness to work across time zones with the extended team present in the 3 Global Procurement Hubs.
- High level of proficiency in English, both oral and written.
- Extensive knowledge of SAP, MS Office applications (esp. Excel & PowerPoint) and data visualization tools.
If your profile matches our needs, we look forward to receiving your application in English.
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At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win. We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
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