Director Strategic Contracts

Job Summary

Reporting to the VP of Supply Chain and Procurement, the position is responsible for all strategic contracts, RFQ’s, and market-based opportunity purchases. This position will also manage and negotiate the indirect spend for all of Kettle’s sites. You will participate in the budgeting process along with managing strategic vendor partnerships.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead, develop and align food ingredient strategies to support current and future business requirements.
• Drive team to develop deep market intelligence for strategic ingredient categories by monitoring the category supply base, industry dynamics, and underlying price indices.
• Develop aligned category strategies by understanding current/future business needs, with key stakeholder support.
• Deliver multiple strategic category plans annually.
• Lead the negotiations for Master Supply Agreements with selected strategic suppliers.
• Drive teams to create formula-based pricing agreements for food ingredients.
• Manage and lead supply and commodity risk strategy and mitigation plans for ingredient categories, including accountability for coverage strategy.
• Assist in annual budgeting process along with senior director of procurement and sourcing.
• Co-Manage purchase price variance (PPV) for the ingredients procurement team.
• Stay abreast of market trends, cost optimization, innovation, and latest technologies to identify new ingredient opportunities by analyzing industry research and attending trade shows.
• Develop and maintain senior-level relationships at strategic ingredient suppliers.
• Assist quarterly business reviews to review aligned KPIs with select, strategic ingredient suppliers.

LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY

Works independently. Determines long range, strategic direction of the functional area within confines of overall strategic plan. Influence action at a senior level including interactions with customers and vendors. Receives customer questions and responds within prescribed areas of knowledge. Position is responsible for planning and managing, directly and through direct reports, revenue generation and realization across the organization. Ineffective actions could have a major impact on the organization's public image or on the organization in terms of development, external relations, delays or attainment of organizational goals. Errors are often irreversible resulting in financial or public image loss extending over long periods. Supervisory Responsibilities Responsible for the work and results of employees within area of responsibility, influences others within organization.

Skill Required

• Bachelors degree.
• Requires 10-15 years of experience. 3-5 years’ experience in senior leadership role.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite.