Senior Manager, Procurement

Cuisine Solutions • Sterling, VA

5h

About The Position

The Senior Manager-Procurement will (learn to) understand business processes and systems as they relate to the Purchasing supply chain and develop improvement initiatives to drive operational efficiencies . The Company: Cuisine Solutions is looking for creative people who are passionate about food and excited to be working with a diverse team of talent. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, informality and bringing our whole self to work. Join us in a career of innovative solutions in the food business and creating products tailored to every customer with high regard for quality and reliability.

Requirements

• Ability to navigate through large complex data sets in PowerBI or other tools
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office products, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Project, Planner, Visio, and data visualization tools such as PowerBI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; excellent listener and interpersonal communicator
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to meet aggressive goals and pre-defined metrics requirements; demonstrated success is a requirement
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and utilizing project management applications.
• Strong propensity for spreadsheets, systems, and processes.
• Curious personality with a desire to understand "how things work" and "how things are related" with the goal of improving and streamlining current methods and processes
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, IT, Business, Finance, or related field

Nice To Haves

• Formal training in project management practices preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of category strategies for key raw materials, packaging, and indirect spend to support business growth and cost optimization.
• Conduct comprehensive category spend analysis, supplier segmentation, market assessments, and risk evaluations to identify opportunities for value creation.
• Partner with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Finance to align category strategies with product formulations, production requirements, food safety standards, and financial goals.
• Continuously monitor category performance, market trends, and commodity fluctuations to adjust strategies proactively.
• Primary point of contact for key account suppliers
• Provide planning and organization related to new product launches projects
• Supplier and RM Setup Systems
• NetSuite
• Implement Supplier Management system
• Implement new ticketing system to track Purchasing requests
• Microsoft 365
• Setup SharePoint file management
• Improve on existing communication structure
• Identify areas of departmental process digitization and partner with IT to implement
• Analytics
• Power BI Reporting
• Diversity Supplier Reporting
• Supplier Performance
• Tracking of dry goods
• Identify areas of departmental analytics to improve upon and partner with IT to implement
• Business Administration
• Coaching/Mentoring/Team Building/Training team members on new systems, reporting and SOP's
• Identify departmental organizational improvements
• Identify staffing and structure needs to support current and future growth
• Work with Vincent to hire and train new team members as needed
• Document departmental SOP's
• Project/Program Management
• Manage Projects and programs related operation and systems improvements
• Manage cross-functional IT projects related to supply chain operations and process improvement
• Present to, Negotiate, and Influence all levels of the organization from IC to Senior Leadership, across all Organizational Business Units, Functional Teams, and all Stakeholders as needed
• Responsible for all Program/Project Management activities to drive, deliver, and sustain all programs/projects that support supply chain operational efficiencies, Purchasing IT Transformation initiatives, and Business Process improvements through Re-Architecture, Re-Engineering, Re-Design, Productivity Improvements, Simplification, and Automation
• Continuous Operational Improvement
• Identify problems, issues, shortfalls and look to fix them to improve department operational efficiencies
• Reduce dry goods footprint and aging
• Develop an understanding of purchasing systems and processes to effectively drive improvement programs
• Interface with Planning, Logistics, Production, R&D, QA to identify gaps in systems, processes, and communication and work with the various teams to plan and implement operational improvements

What This Job Offers

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