Senior Procurement Specialist

6 days ago


Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada Unified Purchasing Group (Canada) Inc. Full time

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Procurement Specialist to join our team at Unified Purchasing Group (Canada) Inc. in this exciting opportunity to lead the procurement of commodities and categories for our iconic brands: KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut.

About the Role

As a Senior Procurement Specialist, you will play a key role in optimizing costs, managing risk, and delivering value to our Franchisee partners. You will be responsible for developing commodity and category plans and strategies, purchasing to optimize costs, managing risk, ensuring continuous supply, building strong relationships with suppliers, brands, and Franchisee community to drive stakeholder value.

You will utilize your expertise in futures markets and technical commodity data to provide strategic purchase recommendations and informed decision-making. Additionally, you will identify and report on market data and trends for key agricultural commodities, including oil, flour, pulp & paper, cheese, beef, chicken & resins in support of categories owned and for other Category Managers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute buying and distribution strategy for assigned categories
  • Primary researcher on key commodities, including trends, data analysis, understanding new season production, global supply and demand, stock to use ratios, carry-over stocks
  • Provide reports/documents/graphs in support of procurement strategies (e.g., Spend analysis, Contracts Coverage, Market intelligence)
  • Ensure components contract prices are properly managed and tracked
  • Support Procurement team members to build the cost bars on strategic purchases and help with breaking down the Supply Chain into its component parts
  • Provide recommendations on upside/downside risk within a commodity to be used by the Procurement Team and Management
  • Lead supplier discussions related to negotiations and/or issues pertaining to the contract terms
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will require:

  • ~6+ years' experience in a similar capacity, preferably in either food manufacturing or food service industry
  • ~ Solid understanding of commodity, food and/or packaging sourcing is an asset
  • ~ Supply Chain Management Professional, SCMA or equivalent is an asset
  • ~ Intermediate to Advanced computer skills with entire Microsoft platform
  • Community College Diploma or University degree in Business or equivalent work experience
About the Salary

The estimated annual salary for this position is $120,000-$150,000 CAD, based on industry standards and location.



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