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Providing strategic leadership across procurement, supply chain management, product development, and production strategies, encompassing meat blocks, ingredients, packaging supplies, process flow, and equipment. Spearheading sales and customer business development efforts. Overseeing corporate profitability objectives, focusing on yield and margin optimization while adhering to overhead and indirect labor goals. As a member of the C-suite executive team, driving corporate culture and value initiatives, fostering company growth, and creating value for shareholders and stakeholders.
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and serving as a key member of the executive leadership team, this role involves close collaboration with internal sales and manufacturing leadership teams. Regular interactions with external suppliers and customers are essential to ensure seamless operations and strategic alignment, fostering strong relationships and driving the company's goals forward.
Oversee the development and implementation of organizational procurement strategies, including short, mid, and long-term plans to achieve business profitability goals.
Analyze the sales mix and profitability of each item for customers, ensuring effective oversight within the supply chain.
Develop comprehensive procurement strategies for meat blocks, exploring industry options, vetting and testing possibilities, understanding raw material costs, and analyzing raw material characteristics.
Lead procurement contract negotiations, focusing on exposure capacities, price structures, leverage points, and incorporating BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) into the buying strategy.
Ensure specification compliance and enforce supplier accountability with clear consequences.
Develop, implement, and evaluate strategies for supply chain improvement.
Identify process challenges and implement solutions to streamline inefficiencies, achieving maximum productivity.
Serve as the company’s subject matter expert for production and sales, particularly regarding finished product initiatives.
Focus on specification development, process flow optimization, yield expectations, customer satisfaction, and company profit goals.
Strategically interface with sales teams and customers.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce costs and enhance profitability.
Develop and evaluate strategies to improve the supply chain, addressing process inefficiencies to boost productivity.
Enhance profitability by developing robust raw material strategies that result in high-yielding, high-performing products for both customers and production.
Understand the full scope of the production process and product mix to achieve optimal margin performance.
Benefits:
Competitive Health & Welfare Benefits
Company-Matched 401(k) Savings Plan
Award Program Potential
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Product Discount
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or Economics
Proactive and strategic thinking for developing long-term strategies for supply chain improvement.
Proven and visible leadership capability, with the ability to use a variety of leadership approaches in order to achieve results.
Clear, logical thinker, able to present a compelling business case supported by data and analysis.
Experience implementing asset management systems.
Diplomatic with excellent negotiating skills.
Proven project/program management experience.
Able to constructively challenge the status quo.