Purchasing Category Manager- Bakery and Cold Beverages

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Purchasing Category Manager- Bakery and Cold Beverages. Terms and conditions vacancy

Summary

The Purchasing and Category Manager develops and implements strategic and tactical programmes to manage an assigned group of suppliers, optimise supplier expectations and build supplier relationships within designated Food and Beverage categories. The Purchasing Manager plays a key role in providing and communicating Supply Chain solutions to meet customers’ needs whilst maximising business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks of this Role

• Category Management of designated Food and Beverage categories including:
  • Build and maintain business relationships between McDonald’s and its suppliers
  • Negotiate with suppliers to achieve best value solutions for the McDonald’s System
  • Develop and implement category plans in conjunction with suppliers and the QA team under the pillars of assured supply, quality, value, food journey, innovation and people.
  • Engage with suppliers on joint strategic plans, agree supplier KPI’s, and conduct formal supplier reviews.
  • Periodic local and global reporting on category metrics
  • Forecast and reporting of into restaurant pricing
  • Ensuring continuous supplier improvement through KPI monitoring and management
• Supply planning in conjunction with our distributor:
  • Ensure un-interrupted supply of promotional and new product to all restaurants
  • Ensure effective contingency and capacity plans are in place
• Projections and Write Off Management:
  • Reduce system cost through improved forecasting and supplier collaboration
  • Work with our distributor internal teams to manage forecasting of permanent and promotional ingredients
  • Establish and manage internal reporting and analysis of forecast accuracy and write off performance
• Work within the ANZ Purchasing Team to manage key categories within designated Food and Beverage portfolios for McDonald’s restaurants
• Stay current with category trends via research and benchmarking (e.g. commodity pricing, finished goods pricing, plant efficiency, supplier KPIs etc.)
• Collaborates with Product Development and Quality Assurance to source best quality, least cost ingredients to support business growth
• Work closely with our Marketing Department to support National Marketing initiatives, identify suppliers within your Categories and ensure assured supply in time for product launches.

Success Profile

A successful Buying Category Manager will be:

• An experienced purchasing professional with demonstrated buying experience in food and beverage categories or related fields (experience with Bakery, Cold Beverages, Dairy and Sauces will be highly advantageous). 
• Experienced in Category/ Supplier Management
• Strong in commercial acumen
• Able to develop strong, cohesive partnerships between McDonald’s and our key suppliers as well as internal stakeholders
• A clear, confident and concise communication who is able to help all stakeholders understand informant (and sometimes technical) information
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a high level of demonstrated initiative to achieve work outcomes and develop professionally
• Able to ambitiously take the lead to manage categories and responsibilities to achieve successful outcomes within the team
• Well organised with demonstrated project management and time management skills; able to set and work to tight deadlines at a fast pace
• Knowledgeable in commodity markets (highly advantageous)
• Strong in negotiation skills and an exceptional influencers who is able to work with others to shape business outcomes
• Able to work independently with little supervision and collaboratively within a team environment whilst maintaining a positive ‘can do attitude’
• Able to provide constructive feedback that further adds value to the supplier relationship
• Ethical and responsible, understands and adheres to McDonald’s Standards of Business Conduct always

Other

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant equivalent will be highly advantageous but not essential
• Prior experience with Beverage and Bakery categories will be highly advantageous

We are looking for a passionate individual who has the ability to manage high spend categories through the development of strong supplier relationships, able to negotiate pricing agreement and coordinate new product launches whilst working and collaborating with global and local stakeholders on strategic sourcing strategies. In this role you will have strong stakeholder and time-management skills as you significantly support the overall success of Supply Chain and the broader business.

If this sounds like the role for you, please send your CV and application letter outlining your category management experience to Laura Saunders ([email protected]) by 20th July 2018.