Procurement Manager - Food Manufacturing

Taylor Farms • Tolleson, AZ

49d • $100,000 - $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Procurement Manager leads strategic sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, and materials planning to ensure continuity of supply while optimizing cost, quality, service, and working capital. The role develops category and supplier strategies for direct materials, packaging, ingredients, commodities, and indirect goods and services; partners cross-functionally to support production, customer requirements, and profitable growth; and builds a high-performing, data-driven procurement team.

The position is with Taylor Farms Arizona in Tolleson. Work is primarily performed in a professional office setting, with regular interaction with production, warehouse, receiving, inventory, quality, and supplier-related areas. Periodic time may be spent on the production floor, in refrigerated areas, loading docks, or storage areas where temperature variation, noise, forklift traffic, wet floors, and food-safety controls may be present. Required safety, food-safety, GMP, visitor/vendor control, and personal protective equipment requirements must be followed in operational areas. The role involves prolonged sitting, computer work, reviewing data and documents, meetings, and communication by phone, email, and in person.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Procurement, Finance, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive procurement, strategic sourcing, purchasing, or supply chain experience, including experience in a manufacturing, food production, assembly, distribution, or consumer products environment.
• Minimum 3 years of people-leadership experience with demonstrated success developing teams and managing priorities.
• Proven experience leading supplier negotiations, sourcing initiatives, cost-reduction programs, and supplier performance management.
• Strong knowledge of purchasing, materials management, inventory planning, logistics, contracting fundamentals, and sales and operations interfaces.
• Strategic and commercial acumen; negotiation and supplier influence; financial and analytical capability; decisive problem-solving; cross-functional collaboration; clear written and verbal communication; change leadership and execution; organization, resilience, and attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Excel; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI, SAP, Oracle, or comparable platforms.
• Professional certification such as CPSM, CSCP, CPIM, or equivalent.
• Experience in regulated food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods.
• Demonstrated use of analytics and visualization tools to support procurement decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute procurement and category strategies aligned with business goals, customer requirements, production needs, and profitability targets.
• Lead sourcing events, supplier evaluation and selection, competitive bidding, negotiations, contract administration, and renewal planning.
• Deliver sustainable savings and cost avoidance through market analysis, supplier consolidation, value engineering, demand management, and total-cost-of-ownership decisions.
• Monitor commodity, capacity, lead-time, geopolitical, and supplier risks; establish practical business-continuity and alternate-source plans.
• Build strategic supplier relationships and conduct regular business reviews using scorecards, corrective actions, and improvement plans covering cost, quality, delivery, service, and compliance.
• Partner with Operations, Planning, Warehouse, Transportation, Quality, Finance, Sales, and Product Development to maintain material availability and support launches and customer commitments.
• Optimize inventory policies, safety stock, order quantities, lead times, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory, and working capital in coordination with planning and operations.
• Ensure purchase orders accurately reflect approved pricing, quantities, delivery schedules, terms, specifications, and conditions; maintain disciplined approval and change-control practices.
• Own procurement analytics, forecasts, budgets, dashboards, and executive reporting, including purchase price variance, realized savings, supplier performance, and material availability.
• Standardize procurement policies, procedures, systems, master data, and transaction methods; identify automation and continuous improvement opportunities within ERP/MRP workflows.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable quality, food safety, security, ethical sourcing, contractual, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop the procurement team by setting priorities, clarifying accountability, balancing workload, evaluating performance, and building succession capability.
• Perform other related duties and strategic projects as assigned.
• Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, training, and performance management for procurement and purchasing personnel.
• Establish team objectives, service expectations, standard work, development plans, and accountability for measurable results.

Benefits

• Vacation and sick time after 90 days.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage available the first of the month following 60 days.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• Voluntary disability coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• 401(k) match: 100% match up to 4%, available the first of the month following 6 days.
• 100% vested immediately.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager