Ingredients Buyer

About Upfield!

We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what's right for our people, our customers and the planet. At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that's free from plastic. We've got iconic brands like Country Crock, Violife, and Imperial that people all over the world know and love. We've been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we're only just getting started. Performance, Passion, and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners, and our world.

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mindset of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market, and obsessed with customers and consumers.

About the Role!

The Upfield Procurement team is responsible for developing, implement and executing best practice procurement principles, such as developing long term supplier relationships, key performance indicators, and sourcing procedures. The team identifies and implements solutions in alignment with the cross-functional teams. They constantly strive to implement efficiencies in their portfolio through end-to-end category management.

You are responsible for the North American ingredient and flavor portfolio, which entails about $25M in total spending. You will serve as the point person acting as the primary liaison between suppliers and internal business partners to support collaborative strategies. Financial analysis and Savings tracking are also key in your role. In addition, you will support innovation and supply continuity support to our spreads, cheese, and creams brands.

Your Main Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the strategic sourcing of various products across multiple business teams by leveraging the end-to-end sourcing and stakeholder engagement process.

• Develop a Supply Relationship Management program,

• Negotiation Total Cost of Ownership

• Develop and launch RFQs / RFPs (request for quotation/proposal) to select suppliers and distributors in targeted categories.

Establishing Business Continuity and Resiliency Plans.

• Leading Supply Agreements/Contract process, while closely working with internal and external Legal teams.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to continually improve supplier and material performance through effective agreements and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) management.

• Lead contributor in Value Creation Projects (VCP) for current products and new innovations.

• Responsible for communicating and stakeholder management during the innovation process.

About you!

This role is for the Procurement person at heart. Someone who enjoys researching, negotiating, and having ownership over a portfolio. The environment will always pose challenges and the business will expect this role to offer solutions. We work individually and as a team leveraging each other's knowledge to Upfield's benefit.

Your experience in a Global Corporate setting will help you excel in this environment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum 5 years of Procurement experience in a CGP or Pharma organization. Food or beverage experience a plus!

• Potential travel 25% - a Passport is required for some international travel.

• Experience with recognized ERP platform - SAP and Ariba preferred.

• Must be able to work independently and within a team environment with a global organization.

• Ability to cultivate strong collaborative working relationships and contacts within a work group, across other company functions and with external organizations.

• Proven ability to influence others and drive meaningful change results.

What's Next?

If you're interested and qualified, please apply!

A Talent Acquisition Manager will reach out to schedule and conduct a pre-screen call with you. If everything checks out, you will receive a confirmation with the next steps to start your interview process for the Ingredients Buyer, which could be up to 4 face-to-face interviews with the hiring team.

We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Upfield is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.

Upfield is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit and hire based on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviors, experience and knowledge. It is the policy of Upfield not to discriminate against any applicant for employment or any employee because of age, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender, disability, national origin, race, religion, veteran status or other protected class.

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