Senior Procurement Manager

Role Overview

As a Sr. Procurement Manager, Raw Materials and Packaging, you will be responsible for designing and implementing strategic sourcing strategies focused across a diversified portfolio of raw materials and packaging. You will operate as a player coach, balancing hands-on execution with team development, and serve as a Key partner to BU leadership.

What You Will Do

Enhance visibility into spend, market dynamics and risk exposure. Navigate commodity volatility, including hedge strategy across key raw material markets. Lead the development and implementation of strategic sourcing practices, achieving optimal savings, quality standards, and service levels.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will direct projects with significant financial and strategic impact, manage critical external relationships with key suppliers, and develop comprehensive engagement and communication strategy to foster enthusiastic participation from functions across the company.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of progressively responsible management experience in a complex food-manufacturing environment
• Developing and executing multi-site strategic sourcing initiatives with demonstrated success managing direct spending
• Previous people management experience
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to speak, read, and write English fluently
• Purchasing concepts and techniques
• Food processing concepts, principles and practices
• Strategic sourcing and category management concepts and best practices
• Contracting and commercial legal practices, laws, regulations, etc.
• Strategic planning and forecasting concepts and approaches
• Project management concepts and techniques
• Budgetary concepts and procedures
• Drive collaboration within the company
• Develop and implement successful sourcing strategies
• Sophisticated, multi-year contract negotiations
• Contract management systems
• Achieve targeted cost savings, safety, quality results
• Prepare and deliver presentations to the highest-level management, customers, and other representatives of external organizations
• Use of various PC-based word-processing, spreadsheet, analytical programs
• Work effectively in a general business environment, with a focus on high levels of quality and customer service

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities
• I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification
• Passing the urinalysis drug screen
• Education verification
• Satisfactory reference and background checks