Job description

MJC Sourcing, LLC

MJC Sourcing is a fast growth niche procurement consulting company that helps clients with all aspects of procurement and strategic sourcing. We hire top Procurement and Strategic Sourcing professionals with 20-30+ years of Procurement experience. We can attract these professionals because we offer unique opportunities to work in challenging, fast paced environments that offer flexibility and remote working assignments at competitive rates. The benefits for our clients are that they can get experienced professionals who can come in, hit the ground running, require minimal supervision, and quickly deliver transformational results at the most competitive value in the industry. MJC Sourcing Consultants consistently deliver substantial improvements to our clients in supplier cost, service, support, quality, and innovation across all categories of spend, including direct and indirect. We have expertise in all areas of procurement, including strategic sourcing, procurement transformation and training, supply market research, category management, and procure to pay.

We are seeking a full-time procurement and strategic sourcing professional with 10-15+ years expertise at a multinational consumer goods company with Food/Ingredients sourcing experience to develop and execute a strong consolidator/distributor strategy designed to bring numerous Essential Raw Materials together under one or a few distributors.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

The Senior Procurement Consultant – Essential Ingredients Distributor Program Leader will develop and execute a strong consolidator/distributor strategy designed to bring numerous Essential Raw Materials together under one or a few distributors. They will be expected to be a catalyst in this space, executing the program over the course of 6 months from RFI/RFP through contracting and program launch.

Managing security of supply/predictive risk mitigation, supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing, and cost management will be key deliverables for distributors. It will be critical to the program for these expectations are measurable and strongly defined in the contract as SLA with KPIs.

Critical requirements for this position are a proven track record delivering transformational strategic sourcing change efforts (supplier consolidation, contract terms improvements, senior stakeholder engagement, etc., across a large number of suppliers) in the Essential Ingredients category, including but limited to, chemicals, additives, flavors, starches, sweeteners, etc. The category is made up of hundreds of ingredients spread across numerous suppliers, with many simple contracts managing small amounts of spend. It is more important now to have strong, well-defined contracts with accurate contract quantities/seasonality forecasts in place, as well as reliable supplier business continuity plans. These relationships are more service oriented and must have good KPIs and Performance measures in place.

Over the past two years the Essential Ingredients market has become increasingly constrained due to a variety of factors brought on by the pandemic. The market, which used to have a relatively high level of Supply vs. Demand, is now shifting to having a very high level of Demand with a very limited level of Supply. As Essential Ingredient suppliers are recovering, they are moving to more of a produce-to-order model and is holding customers to a very strict allocation against their contracts with no additional materials available for spot purchases. This is forcing a very close management of Essential Ingredients where it used to operate as readily available tail spend categories.

Accountability:

This position will work with a team of internal and external Sourcing Managers and provide strategic leadership for Ingredient supplier consolidation.

Principal Activities:

• Developing and executing Consolidator/Distributor strategy, value leadership, supplier relationship management and innovation.
• Be an integral part of the Essential Ingredients team to help manage category strategy and innovation within the bounds of this program.
• Utilizes strategic sourcing methodology to develop category strategies, source, negotiate and manage suppliers to deliver total lowest cost services and materials and mitigate the supply risks. Intimately understands the category markets and cost drivers and develops annual budgets for the Region.
• Initiates investigations opportunities in the sourcing of ingredients, as well as the cost/risk analyses.
• Proactively works with suppliers to ensure the delivery of continuous improvement and technology which ultimately leads to competitive advantage and working capital reduction opportunities where applicable.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for cross-functional partners across the region, relative to sourcing activity.
• Works closely with Quality on development and monitoring of supplier performance. Partners with Supplier Quality Assurance to deliver MQM standards. Ensure the suppliers to comply with the Social Responsibility Audit and the Quality Audit.
• Work together with the Productivity Team to identify and implement the cost improvement initiatives.
• Security of supply, consolidate distributors, and flawlessly execute key initiatives.

Requirements:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics/Materials Management, Finance, Economics, and/or the equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10-15+ years of sourcing experience in a similar role and progressive procurement environment at a multinational consumer goods company. Food/Ingredients sourcing experience preferred.
• Strong experiences in strategic sourcing methodology, e-sourcing, state-of-the-art risk management tools and supplier management programs.
• Strong contracting knowledge and experience.
• Strong negotiations experience.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Power Point); experience in Ariba and SAP is a plus.
• Effective communicator; excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills (experience presenting to senior management a plus).
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving.
• Strong interpersonal skills and leadership skills enabling the incumbent to influence across and work effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Strong project management experience.
• Strong people management skills.
• Working out of Eastern Time Zone.

Benefits:

• 100% Remote Position, possible travel 10%.
• Independent Contractor, Full Time, flexible work environment.
• Pay - $75-$125/Hour depending on experience.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $75.00 - $125.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Will you be working out of the Eastern Time Zone?
• How many years of Procurement experience do you have?
• How many years of Ingredients experience do you have?
• Have you completed the following level of education: Bachelor's Degree?

Work Location: Remote

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