Strategic Sourcing Manager II - Indirect Spend-Remote

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

 

PEOPLE.    PRODUCTS.   CUSTOMERS.

 

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

 

Job Purpose and Overview  

The Strategic Sourcing Manager II works under general supervision negotiating & managing contracts, creating strategies to leverage opportunities while managing risks to optimize results to benefit DFP. 

 

This is a remote with up to 25% travel. The successful candidate will reside in the EST or CST time zone.

 

What will you do as a Strategic Sourcing Manager II at Dawn Foods? 

Category Leadership

• Responsible for all aspects of category management including developing the category strategy and executing competitive events. Conducts category spend analysis and supplier segmentation. Conducts the RFI/RFP/eRFx process from requirements gathering to contracting and savings tracking.
• Leads the process of supply market understanding, supplier search and due diligence, negotiations, supplier selection and contract strategy. Works with legal to finalize contracts.
• Manages multiple sourcing projects concurrently across the organization.
• Develops a deep level of understanding of global supply base. Develops and leads the strategy and execution to drive cost, innovation, risk management and other value-added elements of supplier relationships including supplier diversity and sustainability.

 

Driving Value to the Organization

• Achieves year-over-year benefit targets for the category developed with supervisor.
• Benefits can include savings, cost avoidance, payment term extension and continuous improvement efforts among others.
   

Supplier Relationship Management

• Manages and develops strategic supplier alliances with a select group of suppliers to assure a preferred status in the presentation of new opportunities, while creating an advantaged cost position for Dawn.
• Supports supplier relationship management activities as needed.

 

Senior Leadership Support

• Supports senior leadership team members. Maintains a high level of professionalism while supporting organization. Demonstrates an understanding of business needs and requirements.
• Works in partnership with key stakeholders to ensure their requirements are being met by contracted suppliers, contingency plans exist, and additional sourcing opportunities are presented.
• Partner with Finance, Margin Management, and other cross functional teams to improve existing processes for savings/value generation capture and realization.

 

Operational and Indirect Team Support

• Supports other category management activities as needed within the indirect procurement team including PO management activities.
• Works closely with manufacturing plant contacts, SMEs, corporate & sales office representatives.
• Supports other indirect categories based on team needs.

 

 What Does It Take to be a Strategic Sourcing Manager II at Dawn Foods?

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or related field with 5 years of work experience in the indirect procurement space or 10 years of related work experience in lieu of a degree. 
• Experience within an SAP-based ERP environment, experience in a S2C, P2P, or S2P software a plus (Jaggaer, Coupa, Ariba etc.) highly preferred.
• Manufacturing & Supply Chain Spend/Category Knowledge: Freight, Commercial Supplies, Material Handling, Contract Labor, Utilities, Facilities Management, MRO (Maintenance Repair, Operations)
• Support Office Spend/Category Knowledge: Marketing (Agency, Fleet, Professional Services (i.e. Consulting), Finance & FinTech, Travel, IT knowledge: (have a base of knowledge related to IT hardware, software, consulting, outsourcing, offshoring and managed service contracts; have a desire to continually learn about evolving