Procurement Manager - Ingredients

Job description

Employment Type: Salaried Work Arrangement: Remote Position Summary: Proactively manage the direct raw material supply base to meet or exceed Ventura Foods’ 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 progress 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: - Lead 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, develop supply chain model, negotiate pricing and supply agreements, qualification,...