Position Snapshot

Location: Panama City, Panama

Company: Nestle Global Procurement

Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent contract

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. Learn more here
• 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 with a focus on the Latam Market. You will act as a trusted co-pilot helping to drive and deliver sustainable and competitive cost advantage to the businesses. You will also lead the reporting process 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

• Proactively influence and facilitate strategy formulation and communication of the concerned spend category
• Drive the monthly price forecasting process, challenging assumptions and highlighting variances
• Manage transfer pricing and be responsible for spend category P&L
• Consolidate financial inputs and critically assess risks & opportunities to engage in scenario planning
• Review and validate proposed savings initiatives along with project owners
• Implement and increase 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, actively supporting procurement transformation initiatives by bringing strong financial acumen  

What will make you successful

• A formal financial qualification of appropriate level in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
• Proven experience in Accounting / Finance function – preferably in a Costing and/or Operations Controlling role
• Attention to detail and ability to extract and summarize information quickly when faced with large datasets
• Ability to articulate financial aspects clearly and concisely to various stakeholders in a network organisation
• Experience in working across time zones with the extended team present in the 3 Global Procurement Hubs
• Prior experience in food ingredients or food manufacturing companies a plus
• Proficiency in the English language is essential. String knowledge of Spanish is considered a definite asset.
• 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.

Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.