Senior Manager, Raw Material Procurement

1 month ago

Markham, Ontario, Canada Sofina Foods Inc. Full time
Senior Manager, Raw Material Procurement

At Sofina Foods Inc., we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager, Raw Material Procurement to join our team. This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining strong relationships with global third-party suppliers, ensuring compliance with food safety and regulatory requirements.

The Senior Manager, Raw Material Procurement will focus on sourcing fish, beef, pork, and chicken, as well as managing the strategy for chicken and turkey quota usage and sales. This role will also monitor and support Sofina's plants to ensure that meat formulation substitutes are minimized and that freezer inventory levels remain low unless strategic inventory is necessary due to economic or demand fluctuations.

The key responsibilities of this role include:

  1. Establishing and maintaining relationships with global suppliers for fish, beef, pork, and chicken substitutes, ensuring compliance with food safety and regulatory standards.
  2. Developing and implementing a strategy for managing and selling chicken and turkey quota to maximize value.
  3. Monitoring and supporting plant operations to minimize the need for meat formulation substitutes and ensure that freezer inventory remains at optimal levels, with exceptions made for strategic inventory decisions.
  4. Managing co-cutting subcontractors to ensure timely delivery and product quality.
  5. Proactively addressing and managing any quality or delivery issues with suppliers and driving continuous improvement in supplier performance.
  6. Collaborating with internal teams to optimize the poultry value chain, enhancing efficiency and cost-effectiveness across the full value chain.
  7. Developing and overseeing strategic inventory management to mitigate risks and accommodate demand surges while maintaining low inventory costs.
  8. Using world-class ordering processes and methodologies to ensure that orders are placed economically, minimally, and in a manner that mitigates potential risks.
  9. Developing a process of exception handling that minimizes occurrences of future exceptions and provides advance warnings, so exceptions do not negatively impact operations.
  10. Developing processes and tools that provide the demand signal to our suppliers in a low-touch and accurate manner.
  11. Working with the suppliers to resolve all tactical quality, delivery, and pricing failure modes and tracking supplier performance and corrective action responses.
  12. Proactively and ongoingly communicating with the operations to ensure a high level of on-time-delivery.

Requirements:

  1. A bachelor's or master's degree in management, business, procurement, or a related field, or prior experience.
  2. Minimum of 5 years of experience in customer or relationship management in the meat industry.
  3. Proven ability to manage global supplier relationships and negotiate complex supply agreements.
  4. Experience in quota management for poultry or other regulated commodities.
  5. Strong analytical and decision-making skills with a track record of optimizing inventory and sourcing strategies.
  6. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
  7. Travel is required 25% of the time across Canada to suppliers and plants.

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