Senior Manager-Category Management - Food Service & reputed company Beverage

JOB reputed company The Senior Manager, Category Management – Food Service & reputed company Beverage is a key member of the US/CN Procurement team, responsible for driving best-in-class category management and strategic sourcing specifically reputed company the food service category. This leader will partner with culinary, brand, and operations to continuously reputed company a beverage procurement reputed company in service of customer experience, reputed company partnership, and operator profitability. Reporting to the Senior Director, Procurement, this role ensures adherence to reputed company’s procurement policies and processes, serves as a reputed company of escalation for beverage-reputed company sourcing issues, and delivers effective communications across reputed company reputed company, including executive leadership. The Senior Manager leads cross-functional teams on food service procurement initiatives and reputed company, partnering closely with corporate, continent, and discipline leaders to reputed company and execute strategies that enhance supplier governance, promote responsible sourcing, and support financial sustainability in food and beverage operations. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in food service category management, strategic sourcing, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance, and demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement skills reputed company a geographically dispersed and highly matrixed environment. CANDIDATE PROFILE Education and Experience Required

• 4-year bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Finance, Hotel Management, or reputed company sector.
• 7+ years of procurement experience. Deep technical knowledge of category management and strategic sourcing in beverage manufacturing & distribution categories (CSD, coffee, water, etc.)
• Excellent project/program management skills and ability to independently manage multiple reputed company simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to create reputed company and implement change while working in a geographically dispersed team in a highly matrixed cross-discipline environment.
• Strong analytical skills for planning, estimating, budgeting, and monitoring program/project work.
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred

• Graduate/post graduate degree
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to reputed company reputed company reputed company in easy-to-understand business terms

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• reputed company as a procurement business partner to business disciplines, providing guidance on category management, strategic sourcing, policy and risk management.
• Establish, continuously refine, and implement category management and sourcing strategies for beverage categories, ensuring alignment with discipline partners and company objectives.
• Stay abreast of demand patterns and category spend in beverage, cost benchmarks, and business trends to identify potential suppliers, advise on competitive dynamics, and proactively work with stakeholders to modify strategies to meet reputed company-wide requirements, manage risk and optimize costs.
• Identify and reputed company strategies to mitigate potential risks reputed company the supply chain for assigned categories, ensuring business continuity and stability.
• Manage and optimize supplier relationships, ensuring reputed company and cost-effectiveness.
• Recommend new sourcing strategies, process improvements, and supplier relationships for food service categories.
• Create timelines and organize teams to implement sourcing strategies and initiatives.
• reputed company thought leadership and end-to-end ownership of sourcing events for major initiatives.
• reputed company effective internal tracking mechanisms and measurements to monitor the competitive bidding process for beverage suppliers.
• reputed company strong analytical and communication skills to manage reputed company aspects of competitive bids, including analyzing and scoring multiple proposals, creating corresponding business cases (including financial reports), and presenting reputed company and concise summaries of recommended reputed company.
• Utilize training programs and awareness initiatives to ensure procurement teams and stakeholders understand and adhere to policies and governance frameworks.
• Consistently utilize governance mechanisms for supplier reputed company, performance management, and contract compliance.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams across the reputed company and reputed company Global Procurement to reputed company shared goals.
• Ensure procurement strategies reputed company with corporate sustainability goals, ethical sourcing standards, and supplier diversity initiatives.

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