Sr. Manager, Global Procurement - NCA Energy (Sao Jose dos Campos Based)

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  • São José dos Campos - SP
  • Permanente
  • Período integral
  • Há 10 dias
Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.The Global Category Manager oversees the entire Ball Way of Procurement process developing and executing energy procurement strategies across the NCA region, ensuring cost competitiveness, supply security and resilience, and alignment with the company's sustainability and commodity risk management objectives. The role leads energy sourcing activities, manages supplier relationships and contract structures, and works closely with internal stakeholders across sustainability, engineering, operations, and finance. The role also plays a key part in global energy governance, supporting risk oversight, cross-regional coordination, and data integrity.Energy Procurement & Strategy
  • Lead and manage competitive tenders (RFPs) for electricity and natural gas supply contracts, including supplier engagement, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
  • Create, communicate, and implement energy category plans, including country/state-level purchasing strategies, risk management approaches, and budget inputs for electricity and natural gas, ensuring alignment between regional execution and the global energy strategy.
  • Monitor energy market developments and provide insights to inform procurement strategy, category plans, and budget assumptions.
Contracting & Commodity Risk Management
  • Manage contract procurement strategy, ensuring contract structures (physical & financial) and procurement timing are aligned with the commodity risk management framework, approved hedging approach, and commodity market horizons.
  • Develop and recommend when and how the organisation should hedge, including timing, structure, and volumes, in line with market conditions, exposure profiles, and corporate commodity risk policy.
  • Support the execution of approved hedging and risk mitigation strategies through appropriate internal governance and approval processes.
  • Ensure compliance with internal governance requirements, approval processes, and contractual obligations.
Supplier & Stakeholder Management
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with utilities, traders, and energy service providers.
  • Act as the primary energy procurement interface for NCA operations and regional stakeholders.
  • Partner with Finance, Sustainability, Legal, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting teams to ensure aligned outcomes.
Sustainability & Decarbonisation Support
  • Provide commercial and procurement support for plant-level energy solutions (e.g. BESS, microgrids, near / on-site private wire generation), in partnership with Engineering and Operations.
  • Support renewable energy sourcing initiatives (e.g. green tariffs, PPAs, certificates where applicable).
  • Contribute to decarbonisation and electrification initiatives aligned with corporate sustainability goals.
  • Track and report on energy-related KPIs, savings, and emissions impacts.
Governance, Reporting, Data
  • Prepare analysis and materials to present at Ball's quarterly Global Energy Commodity Risk Committee, providing clear market insights, risk exposures, and recommendations.
  • Work closely with other regions to harmonise energy data, reporting, and methodologies, ensuring consistency, transparency, and effective best-practice sharing across the organisation.
  • Support the management and continuous improvement of energy data management systems, ensuring energy, contract, pricing, and hedging data is accurately recorded, maintained, and governed.
  • Maintain accurate procurement documentation, reporting, and audit trails.
  • Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities in procurement processes, tools, systems, and reporting.
  • Manage and maintain oversight of non-commodity energy costs and related datasets, ensuring cost components, invoices, and regulatory charges are accurately captured and consistently categorised to support reporting, budgeting, and decision-making.
Minimum Education & Experience:
  • Completed Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Energy, or a related field.
  • Advanced (minimum) or Fluent Level of English
  • Experience doing Sourcing, Electricity, and Natural Gas.
  • Experience in Commodity Risk Management and Sourcing Commodities
Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.Job Grade: Global Grade 13

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