Procurement Category Manager - Ingredients
About The Position
This position builds, implements, and manages category spend and strategy for Idahoan’s ingredient spend, excluding raw materials and potatoes, across the Idahoan Supply Chain network. As part of the Procurement Team, the role identifies suppliers and resources that support business goals and customer needs, and contributes to the company’s growth, innovation, and sustainability ambitions. The role leads and contributes to sourcing projects for internal production, monitoring and driving performance indicators related to financial performance, quality, standardization across sites, Design to Value (DTV), and responsible sourcing, with a focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). It reports to the Senior Director – Sourcing & IBP and partners closely with R&D and Quality teams. The position is located in the Corporate Office and may require travel up to 10% based on internal and external business needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Logistics, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Food Technology, or a related discipline.
- At least 5 years of professional experience in Sourcing and Procurement, including sourcing key commodities such as dairy, fats and oils, starches, flavors, and spices.
- Collaborative team player and leader able to build a positive work environment.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, drive, and motivation.
- Ability to lead and influence change amid complexity and ambiguity.
- Effective relationship-building skills and ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 10% based on internal and external business needs.
Nice To Haves
- Procurement or Supply Chain accreditation, such as CIPS or CPSM.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement category strategies for all ingredient spend.
- Manage strategic sourcing initiatives, including preparing and executing RFP, RFQ, and RFI processes and conducting direct negotiations.
- Partner with R&D to identify alternate and innovative ideas and suppliers, provide business solutions, challenge requirements and specifications, and create competitive advantage.
- Develop qualified, competitive sources of supply through comprehensive financial and market reviews to support risk mitigation and commercial advantage.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and manage stakeholder engagement and alignment throughout the end-to-end sourcing process.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs, insights, risks, and opportunities.
- Support savings tracking, measure contract compliance, and monitor other key metrics to ensure targets are met and value is delivered.
- Manage the end-to-end contract process for ingredient contracts.
- Apply knowledge of sourcing and procurement best practices, external trends, global supply markets, and commodity hedging.
- Assist internal stakeholders with supplier relationships, supplier performance tracking, and communicating performance feedback to suppliers.
- Align with policies and procedures to drive process controls and compliance.
- Use an ERP system to transact and run reports.
- Lead employee engagement efforts for the team through regular communications, clear goals and priorities, and ongoing feedback.
- Complete special projects as assigned.
Benefits
- Bonus potential.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time team members.
- PTO, including vacation, sick, and holiday time, for full-time team members.
- 401(k) match.
- Company-paid disability and life insurance policies.
- Paid maternity and parental leave.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
