Associate Manager, Ingredient Procurement - Flavors
Company: Tropicana Products Inc
Location: Bradenton
Posted on: May 28, 2023
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Job Description:
About Tropicana Brands Group Tropicana Brands Group brings
together an exciting, global portfolio of some of the world's most
iconic juice brands including Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Dole,
Copella, and Punica. Established in 2022 as a joint venture between
PAI Partners and PepsiCo, the company aims to promote new growth
for its business, opportunities for its people and accelerate a
vision to quench the world's thirst for more delight and
nourishment. With a global footprint of more than 2,000 associates
that spans North America and Europe, we are proud of our
industry-leading capabilities in areas that include innovation,
R&D, manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing and
nutrition expertise.What's Your Role? This position is responsible
for the commercial ownership and sourcing accountabilities for all
Flavors, Colors and Protein ingredients for North America.This
includes the development, communication and execution of sourcing
strategies, supplier selection, negotiations, as well as supplier
and contract management. The position acts as a primary liaison
between Procurement and Supply Chain, Finance and R&D for the
category. Expectations are for this individual to have very good
analytical skills and good knowledge of the global food and
beverage ingredients landscape.This role directly manages the
assigned key category direct spend of approximately $60MM.Key
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Has full budget
accountability for the assigned category: Responsible for
developing price standards, forecasting and analyzing purchase
price variance, year-over-year and performance vs
market/competition.Assessment of the industry, political, economic
and agricultural forces at play to build advantageous sourcing
strategies for Tropicana Brands Group.Understand price and cost
structure and their associated drivers. Optimizes Total Cost of
Ownership through leveraging internal and external factors.Actively
supports the launch of innovation and commercialization of new
products by setting up cost efficient supply chains and ensuring
timely availability of ingredients.Ownership to deliver annual AOP
productivity for the assigned categoryQualifications /
Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Food
Science, Engineering or other related field.5+ years of work
experience in procurement, supply chain, or other relevant
experience.SAP and/or MS Excel fluency desired.Communication
SkillsCommunicates effectively to win support and supports a
collaborative culture. Proactively shares information, best
practices and is motivated to improve the business unit and
relationships with our business partners.Communicates persuasively
to win support, minimize barriers in the way of results and
leverages understanding of key business drivers in category to
achieve high level results.Analytical ThinkingAbility to formulate
and the translate strategies into plans that can be effectively
executed.Ability to quickly analyze data and transform it into
meaningful insights.PDN-99132244-bcc2-48f4-b7c7-dd26db2326ab
Keywords: Tropicana Products Inc, Bradenton , Associate Manager, Ingredient Procurement - Flavors, Executive , Bradenton, Florida
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