Procurement Manager

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage the sourcing and purchasing of ingredients and edible commodities, including cocoa products, sugar, oils, dairy, nuts, flavors, colors, and inclusions.
• Manage purchase orders, inventory coverage, material requirements, and supplier deliveries to ensure continuity of supply.
• Proactively identify and resolve shortages, delivery issues, and other supply risks.

Commodity Management & Strategic Sourcing

• Maintain strong relationships with ingredient and commodity suppliers.
• Evaluate supplier performance across quality, delivery, service, and cost.
• Partner with suppliers to resolve performance issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Monitor commodity markets, pricing trends, crop conditions, and supply-demand dynamics to identify risks and opportunities.
• Provide market intelligence and cost forecasts to support budgeting, forecasting, and purchasing decisions.
• Develop sourcing and contracting strategies that balance cost, quality, service, availability, and risk.
• Lead supplier negotiations, RFQs, sourcing events, and ingredient supply agreements.
• Identify and execute cost savings, productivity, and value improvement opportunities.

Supplier Management

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with ingredient and commodity suppliers.
• Evaluate supplier performance across quality, delivery, service, and cost.
• Partner with suppliers to resolve performance issues and drive continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Planning and Operations to ensure material readiness and optimize inventory levels.
• Support R&D and Commercialization with ingredient sourcing for new products, reformulations, and product initiatives.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, Food Safety, Finance, and Commercial teams on sourcing and supply priorities.
• Participate in S&OP and material planning processes.

Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain spend analysis, supplier performance metrics, and procurement KPIs.
• Support annual cost reduction and productivity objectives.
• Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, supply reliability, and working capital.
• Maintain accurate procurement and supplier data within ERP systems.