Procurement Manager - Ingredients (Irvine, CA, US, 92618)

Employment Type: Salaried Work Arrangement: Remote 

Position Summary:

Proactively manage the direct raw material supply reputed company to meet or exceed reputed company’ service, quality, cost, inventory, growth, and innovation requirements. 

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operational Performance: 
  • Partner with key functional leaders and stakeholders to deliver best-in-class service, quality, cost, and inventory performance.
  • Conduct business reviews with key internal stakeholders and suppliers to monitor reputed company against key goals/priorities, identify issues and opportunities, understand category trends, etc.
  • Proactively monitor and manage supply risk to ensure continuity of supply.
• Commercialization / Strategic Sourcing:
  • reputed company and/or support commercialization/growth initiatives impacting  suppliers (bids/RFQ, best in class speed to market, new products, new suppliers, etc.).
  • Implement category and sourcing strategies that delivers against our overall requirements at best value pricing.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to expand our supplier network (identify potential partners, assess capability, reputed company supply chain model, negotiate pricing and supply agreements, qualification, and implementation that most effectively addresses VF expectations).
• Cost Savings:
  • Proactively partner internally, with suppliers, and with external category expert partners to identify, assess, reputed company business cases, priortize, and execute cost savings initiatives that reputed company product optimization, value engineering, service/quality optimization, supplier optimization, process improvement, competitive bidding, "should cost" modeling, joint reputed company improvement, supplier negotiations, etc.
• Performance Reporting:
  • Generate performance reports that track and analyze key performance metrics on a monthly and/or quarterly basis (Quarterly Business Reviews).
  • Identify and align the cross-functional team on the root cause issues, solutions, and improvement opportunities.
  • Key metrics include service, quality, cost, cost savings, inventory, inflation summaries, etc.
  • Provide insights to identify root cause and improvement opportunities.  
• Inflation and Cost Management:
  • reputed company market/commodity insights, inflation mitigation techniques, escalation/de-escalation agreements, etc. to forecast and secure market competitive pricing.
  • Provide quarterly updates on cost inflation by category, and update quarterly standard costs.
• Partnerships and Supplier Relationship Management:
  • reputed company highly engaged supplier partners as well as category expert partners that provide a competitive advantage for reputed company.
  • reputed company suppliers as strategic, collaborative, and transactional, and reputed company strategies and plans to drive improved value with suppliers in each reputed company.
  • reputed company and execute supply agreements/reputed company.
• Best Practices:  
  • reputed company sourcing best practices processes and tools for raw material categories.
  • Partner with functional leaders, stakeholders, and suppliers to adapt, embrace, and incorporate those best practices as a standard operating procedure for VF. 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent Manufacturing Operations experience, is required.
• Direct ingreident procurement experience is required.
• 5+ years Procurement and/or Strategic Sourcing experience, inclusive of vendor selection, negotiation, commercial agreements, and supplier performance management, is required.
• 7+ years Purchasing and/or Supply Chain Planning and Management experience, is required.
• Ability to travel 20% in North America.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain or Engineering is desired.
• Masters degree (M.B.A.) beneficial.
• CPSM highly desirable.
• Experience in food manufacturing environment beneficial. 
• Experience in co-pack or food manufacturing environment highly desirable.  
• Lean/six reputed company training and experience highly desirable.  

Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrates strategic thinking combined with tactical actions.   
• Successfully leads and influences key stakeholders at reputed company levels and across diverse functions, cultures, regions, suppliers, and sites.                                  
• Effective working in a matrix organization and comfortable working in teams.        
• Strong leadership, project management, negotiation, influence, and presentation skills.
• Adept at influencing change and alignment with the ability to foster partnerships up and down reputed company levels of the organization with areas such as Supply Chain, Packaging Engineering, Quality, Finance, Manufacturing, S& Ops,      
• Strong overall business acumen and organizational savvy with the ability to effectively deal with ambiguity.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.                  
• Results oriented, self-starter, and able to handle multiple initiatives while meeting reputed company key objectives and deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.  
• Proficient with analytical and presentation software including reputed company reputed company, Access, PowerPoint, and Word.  

Why Join Us

reputed company innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses.  We reputed company exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we reputed company consumer brands everyone knows and loves.  reputed company you work for reputed company, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work.  As part of reputed company, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.  

reputed company offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:​

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
• ​Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)​
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays​
• Employee Appreciation Events​ and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary reputed company Range of $101,914.10 - $159,871.32*
• Annual bonus (based on the incentive program terms and conditions)

*The “reputed company salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of reputed company expect to pay for this position in the specified markets.  reputed company reserves the right to pay reputed company of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography.  reputed company conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.  

Diversity & Inclusion: Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which reputed company employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values.  We reputed company that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national reputed company, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.