Manager Procurement

About the role

This role is a key partner to the Sr. Manager and serves as the center of excellence leader for the Procurement operating model. The role includes building upon existing models to enhance performance management, efficiency, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Make processes more efficient and scalable, ensuring the highest quality of operations and minimizing operational risk.
• Manage the development and execution of sourcing strategies for each category, incorporating customer requirements, product requirements, market conditions, business risk, and supplier capabilities.
• Guide team members to provide global and domestic industry assessments for all assigned categories to ensure BRF considers all elements impacting the source of supply and competitive advantage.
• Handle and guide team through procurement urgent issue resolution and escalations.
• Guide team to develop clear delineation between controlled and uncontrolled spend to institute strategies for managing and mitigating costs and risks for uncontrolled spend.
• Develop supplier management programs, scorecards, supplier quality, supplier financial health, and management of top strategic suppliers.
• Lead projects related to target operating model design, process design, and governance.
• Drive a strong communication style with internal customers to ensure understanding of business objectives, expectations, and specific requirements.
• Guide team to create competition within categories to drive bottom-line impact and risk mitigation.
• Use key reports and consultants to obtain market intelligence, including long and short-term market drivers.
• Implement strategy and targets to drive cost out of controllable spend (negotiable inputs, processing, waste).
• Collaborate with internal business stakeholders to drive innovation and build efficiencies for the operation.
• Manage and guide team to develop annual budgets for assigned categories.
• Manage suppliers based on metrics collected via scorecard across BRF disciplines.
• Mentor employees in alignment with BRF’s values.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in business-related discipline (e.g., business, economics, finance, accounting, supply chain), preferred.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of procurement experience, including supplier quality, engagement, program governance.
• Minimum of five (5) years of people management experience in procurement.
• Manufacturing industry experience required, preferably with high mix, high volume product lines.
• Strong supplier management skills, including responsibility for industry assessments, financial analysis, negotiating contracts, and cost modeling.
• Strategic commodity procurement experience, preferably with understanding of tracking of futures and reading market reports.
• Ability to welcome and embrace ambiguity and collaborate across teams to develop procurement approaches and cost-saving initiatives.
• Inquisitiveness that drives you to understand the business, identify bottlenecks and opportunities, and create solutions.
• Past experience being managed and managing to cost-savings objectives.
• High level of process improvement and willingness to drive business forward.
• Experience with an ERP system required.
• Systems proficiency with SAP desired.
• A drive and desire to solve problems with data.