Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

• Developing sourcing strategies for the goods you have been assigned to buy (raw, pack, co man)
• Identifying potential suppliers, assessing their capabilities and capacity, and issuing RFP’s to support competitive bidding processes
• Working to provide the best total value for Eagle (cost, cash, terms, quality, service) and meet production needs
• Acting as bridge between the Eagle supply planning teams and suppliers as those teams work to identify:
  • Required ordering/release lead times
  • Optimal inventory strategies/safety stocks to ensure no production disruptions inclusive of leveraging the ability of a supplier to hold inventory
  • Optimal order quantities to deliver best total value thru the lens of cost tiering but also obsolescence risk (aka Economic Order Quantities)
• Constantly seeking cost savings opportunities and presenting them to the business for consideration (supplier changes, material changes, down weighting/gauging, etc.)
• Supporting innovation and change management needs by working upstream with marketing and R&D, sitting on innovation teams, and partnering with suppliers to identify affordable material solutions that will bring R&D and marketing concepts to life reliably and affordably
• Coordinating change management activities with the supply planning teams, plants and suppliers to ensure changes are delivered on time, at cost, with no service disruptions and minimal obsolescence
• Supporting quality assurance team members in their efforts to ensure suppliers meet all pertinent regulatory requirements for use in our products.
• Providing second level support to the plants on material quality or service issues via our dispute resolution/escalation protocol
• Developing the annual material budget and managing cost to budget/PPV thru the year
• Setting up suppliers in M3
• Providing price projections to finance monthly and supporting quarterly reforecasting efforts
• Supporting accounts payable in resolving invoicing issues
• Staying connected with industry trends by identifying and participating in a limited number of industry groups/associations
• Setting up mechanisms to stay connected to market trends
• Manage and develop direct any report/s to deliver objectives and grow their contribution to the business

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or supply chain/logistics preferred.
• 5 years of procurement experience
• Experience on both tactical buying but also strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management
• Experience leveraging supplier capabilities to support innovation
• Experience managing commodities and a hedge program a plus
• Experience building an annual budget and managing cost vs. budget
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically strong in Excel.
  • Consumer products experience preferred.

Specific Competencies

• Sourcing and negotiation skills
• Dispute resolution skills – an ability to get in the middle of a situation and leverage facts and data vs emotions to come to a reasonable outcome
• Data and Analytics – experience personally building dashboards to regularly assess operational performance and identify loss recovery opportunities. Strong desire to manage thru metrics and data.
• Innovative – an out of the box thinker who strives for excellence.
• Act with Intensity – must be urgent and positively engage others, be visible and confident.
• Display Influence – able to lead others that do not directly report to you to positive outcomes for the business
• Continuous Improvement – never satisfied with the status quo. Always seeking to identify and drive further opportunity for improvement.

Additional Items

Travel: must be able travel to visit plants and suppliers as needed, typically short trips, with a max of 1-2 trips per month

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.