Description:
The Global Procurement Director of Food directs all phases of national purchasing efforts for principal supply partners, spanning several Food Service product categories for the Global market. Cultivates national-level relationships with primary food service vendor partners/companies and leverages regional best-practices to the benefit of the global network of stores. The Global Procurement Director of Food supports the company goals by focusing on personal accountability, customer service and work efficiency.
Essential Job Functions
- Negotiates national food service, supply, and non‐retail food-related contracts (approximately $2 billion+ in aggregate annual purchasing)
- Delivers additional procurement synergies for the company’s global network, derived primarily from sku rationalization efforts, exploiting unleveraged scale opportunities, consolidating vendor partners and distribution points, and promoting business unit‐level marketing refinements
- Provides strategic and tactical category guidance on key categories, such as Food Service, based on national trends, internal and external best practices, and company performance objectives
- Establishes cross‐functional teams to diagnose, quantify and address regional and/or national‐level sales opportunities, emerging products and categories, and alternative revenue sources
- Unites the company’s autonomous business units around common value‐enhancing principles, partner and proprietary products, new programs and offerings, and relevant macro‐level opportunities
- Responsible for establishing and maintaining an effective, efficient, communication process to/for Division Vice Presidents, Directors, and Category Managers.
- Leads the effort to scale successful regional programs to multi‐region or national level status
- Supports the establishment of national merchandise category benchmarks, performance markers and objectives
- Supports the valuation of existing proprietary brand families and develop solutions for the enhanced delivery of those brands and affiliated partnerships
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Marketing, Economics, International Business, or related business discipline; MBA preferred. Other combinations of job related experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
- Minimum 10 years of procurement, product, or contract management experience, or similar combination of related marketing and/or merchandising experience in a chain retail environment.
- Multi-Category and/or marketing department leadership in convenience stores or related food service retail industry strongly preferred
- Multi-unit leadership experience in convenience store and/or foodservice merchandising, operations or related retail industry with management responsibility strongly preferred.
- Comprehensive knowledge of key financial management principles (internal) and macroeconomic (external) factors and cost drivers (ex: commodities indices)
- Advanced understanding of core marketing principles, including brand development/management, merchandising, pricing theory, and promotional strategies
- Advanced Experience with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word preferred.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor the message and delivery to a wide range of internal and external stakeholder groups
- Travel required
- Valid driver’s license required.