Associate Category Manager

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada HelloFresh Full time

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.
- About this role

Location: (ON, AB, BC)

Schedule: Monday - Friday 9AM - 5PM

We are looking for an Associate Category Manager, Grocery, who will help us build out our vendor network and continuously improve our end-to-end sourcing process. Reporting to the Senior Category Manager, Grocery, you will contribute to and execute our strategic roadmap, manage vendor relationships, support negotiations, launch new ingredients, and streamline internal procurement processes. As part of the Procurement team, you will play a key role in improving our costs, ingredient quality, supply chain reliability, and product innovation - helping us deliver the best possible value to our customers.

What you will do
- Support development and execution of our sourcing strategy for the category, driving improvements and supply chain performance in:

- Cost: consistently optimize our cost base
- Quality: identify and reduce quality errors
- Reliability: ensure supply availability and proactively mitigate risk in the supply chain
- Customer offering: drive product innovation and create a unique competitive advantage
- Leverage large internal datasets and industry benchmarks to report on team progress against objectives, identify and prioritize new opportunities, and drive continuous improvement
- Support vendor negotiation and selection process
- Lead projects that drive innovative and sustainable packaging solutions
- Manage new and existing vendor relationships, providing feedback on performance and collaborating on key initiatives
- Work cross-functionally within the organization to prioritize and develop new products that deliver improved value for our customers
- All other duties, as assigned

At a minimum you have
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, supply chain, or related discipline
- 3-5 years of related experience in a hands-on, high-performance environment (ideal backgrounds include sourcing, supply chain, operations, or consulting)
- Analytical and data skills: able to dig through data independently and draw helpful insights/conclusions. Strong Excel skills are a must
- Structured approach and communication style: ability to clearly and persuasively communicate with a large variety of stakeholders
- A love for solving complex, ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment with constant change and limited direction
- Bonus: Strategic sourcing experience, ideally across different steps of the sourcing process; comfortable managing negotiations with vendors

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here- Box Discount_
- Amazing discounts on 1 box per week 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box- Health & Wellness_

Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, and unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs.- Vacation & PTO_

Time off is also an important part of self-care We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance.- Family Benefits_
- A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents- WFH Allowance_
- A one time fund to help you set up or improve your home office- Growth & Development_
- We support your career progression, provide development opportunities, and invest in your continued learning through our organization wide L&D fund- Work Hard & Have Fun_
- From team socials to HQ Wellness Wednesdays, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives_
- With impactful ERG’s like HelloChange and Women Empowerment, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts- Food Puns_
- this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names

Flexible Hybrid Approach

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience.

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how oft

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