Senior Procurement Manager - Ingredients

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Our client is a leading international food company, creating well known, loved and sustainable brands that Australian generations have grown up with. They are committed to end-to-end value, innovation and best-practice food manufacturing.
This is a unique role. The Senior Procurement Manager - Ingredients, is an integral member of the procurement function and makes a strong contribution to this high performing team. Our client is looking for a candidate with an entrepreneurial mindset, value-savvy shrewdness, innovation, creativity and exceptional expertise in ingredient procurement. This is an end-to-end role across the full value chain, sourcing quality ingredients at competitive price points.
This role is an opportunity to create and evolve the ingredients procurement function of a major player in the sector. Career development and growth, including international potential, are inevitable for the right candidate.

EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Significant experience in the procurement of a wide range of ingredients in the food industry with a diverse supplier base
• Thorough understanding of trading and commodities pricing
• Operate with speed and alacrity
• Excellent commercial and financial acumen
• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (Procurement, Business, Agricultural)
• Ingredients category management and strategic sourcing
• Strong internal and external stakeholder management
• Excellent technical, strategy, leadership and influencing skills
• Supplier Performance Management
• Strong data and reporting
• Strong knowledge end-to-end supply chain drivers

• Category Management planning
• Unlock value across the supply chain
• Key stakeholder engagement
• Deliver value-add projects
• Drive innovation and transform cost structure
• Conduct Procurement Risk Assessments
• Conduct market assessment, local and international, current and future state
• Define ‘go to market’ strategy
• Drive the procurement sustainability program and operational effectiveness
• Contract governance
• Ongoing performance and benefit tracking
• Waste elimination
• Analyses of historical spend behaviour and all related data inputs
• Drive EBIT growth in all markets
• Monitor supply chain vulnerabilities and own, and resolve, risk
• Know the marketplace and understand where the finished products fit into the market