Senior Procurement Manager

At Russell Stover, not only do we love chocolate, but we love our jobs! Every day we go to work exhibiting our values of excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and collaboration. Working at Russell Stover you’ll be part of the leading manufacturer of boxed, seasonal, and sugar-free chocolates. For over 100 years, Russell Stover Chocolates, Whitman’s, and Pangburn’s have been crafted with the finest ingredients to bring happiness to generations. Today, we produce over 55 million pounds of chocolate annually, and our legacy brands can be found in 13 company-owned stores and over 9,000 wholesale accounts. Join our team and let’s continue making chocolate lovers happy! A day in the life… As a Sr. Procurement Manager, Raw Materials and Packaging, you will be responsible for designing and implementing strategic sourcing strategies focused across a diversified portfolio of raw materials (Chocolate, Dairy, Sugar, etc…) and packaging (Flexibles, Corrugate, Displays, etc…). As a leader, you will operate as a player coach, balancing hands-on execution with team development. You will serve as a Key partner to BU leadership, including Operations, FSQA, Finance, R&D, and Marketing. You will be responsible for developing organizational capabilities, working with collaboratively with the Vice President of Procurement and key stakeholders which include other members of the senior executive team. The primary responsibilities will be setting and attainment of saving targets, while maintaining quality, timeliness, safety and customer satisfaction while driving increased financial performance and growth goals. You will direct projects with significant financial and strategic impact as well as manage critical, highly sensitive external relationships with key suppliers. What you will be doing… Enhance visibility into spend, market dynamics and risk exposure. Navigate commodity volatility, including hedge strategy across key raw material markets (Chocolate, Sugar, Dairy, and other raw materials) . Partnering closely with the VP of Procurement and CFO. Lead the development and implementation of strategic sourcing practices. Achieve optimal savings, quality standards, and service levels, as well as commercialization of new products. Gain advantage on spend consolidation, specification standardization, and other procurement strategies as appropriate. Develop and maintain external high-level business relationships, including key supplier relationships, participation in relevant and regular meetings, conferences with key suppliers, customers, and other relevant activities to ensure constructive supplier and customer relationships and the maintenance of the Company’s continued good standing with existing and prospective suppliers and customers. Develop comprehensive engagement and communication strategy to foster enthusiastic participation from functions across the company in broad-based sourcing initiatives and centralized category management of identified spend categories. Provide high-level procurement support to regional operations when requested by Vice President of Procurement. Active contributor to the overall strategic direction of the procurement organization to support the projected growth, profitability and customer service goals for the nearer- and longer-term market challenges and opportunities. Disseminate information and forecasts regarding pricing trends and assured supply issues to sales, operations management and, where appropriate, customer’s purchasing teams with timely and accurate information for effective decision-making. Attract, develop, and retain top procurement talent with a keen eye on succession planning within the team. Guide trading strategy, pricing, and supply continuity in a fast-moving market. If visiting our manufacturing plants, you will be expected to: Adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to ensure product quality and maintain compliance with food safety standards. Complete and follow FSQA t…

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