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Manager, Ingredients - Fruits & Juices
The Manager, Ingredients – Fruit and Juice supports the Sr. Manager – Crops - Ingredients Procurement to develop sourcing strategy (cost modeling, market analysis, business need assessment) and perform analytics (bid events, supplier negotiations and contract analysis) related to assigned categories. This position owns end-to-end analysis of categories and the supply base to determine lowest landed cost. The role requires constant engagement with suppliers and internal stakeholders in the Business Units to drive supplier performance KPI’s, resolve quality issues, and generate market intelligence. This person will work closely with Product Supply, Marketing, R&D, Quality, Operations, and Procurement in support of the assigned category. Primary focus will include category optimization, process improvement and delivering against individual and departmental goals.
Primary Responsibilities
- Works closely with factories, engineering, R&D, and broader procurement teams, while driving results and challenging internal and external stakeholders
- Generate new project ideas for categories based on strategic analysis by challenging existing portfolios and collaborating with external suppliers and internal business and operations
- Perform spend, contract and market analysis for assigned categories
- Conduct bid events, prepare bid analysis, make sourcing recommendations to strategic sourcing managers
- Generate materials in support of presentations, workshops and negotiations
- Provide necessary inputs for supply agreements and monitor compliance
- Manage supplier performance
- Ensure adherence and compliance to procurement processes and policies
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for assigned categories
- Stakeholder communication and management
- Supplier relationship management
- Deliver challenging productivity goals and create pipeline of projects
- Capacity planning and business continuity plans
- Ensure Supplier Quality Expectations compliance
- Support innovation projects through the commercialization process
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required (Supply Chain, Ag / Economics, Finance, or Engineering desired)
- Minimum 3 - 5 years of research, commodities and/or procurement experience required
- Fruit/Fruit Juice experience and/or knowledge, preferred but not required
- Outstanding analytical skills (statistics, economics, cost modeling)
- Organizational skills (handling workload and complexity)
- Ability to interface with a wide variety of business situations and all levels of management, trade groups, conventions, etc.)
- Negotiations and influencing skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Problem solving and decision-making skills
- Proficient in MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint
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