Foodbuy USA

The Category Development Manager is an exciting opportunity to accelerate your career in procurement within Foodbuy’s category team. In this role you will take responsibility for the day-to-day execution of assigned categories and the execution of business plans within a supportive, growth focused environment. There is plenty of new opportunity that we want you to be able to quickly uncover using data analysis, and you will apply your procurement expertise including negotiation, budgeting and forecasting, aligning customer needs with program opportunities, fostering supplier relationships and engaging cross-functional resources to deliver your strategies for growth. As Category Development Manager, you will also work closely with other team members to further develop your category expertise and broaden your knowledge of the business. This role includes strong project management, analytical and customer service components.

What You’ll Do

• Lead day-to-day tactics and operations of assigned subcategories.
• Develop a category strategy in collaboration with other departments that meets targeted business objectives and delivers strong financial results.
• Become the subject matter expert for assigned subcategories, including knowledge of your suppliers’ contractual terms, market intelligence, and innovation and R&D trends.
• Develop and manage long-term, strategic supplier relationships to bring incremental value.
• Negotiate with suppliers to drive savings opportunities for customers and mitigate any adverse market conditions.
• Establish and monitor price benchmarks to maintain high portfolio value for customers.
• Manage term sets to ensure data releases to distributors are accurate and timely.
• Set annual budgets for your categories with monthly tracking and forecasting.
• Prepare supplier and category analyses and deliver presentations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Work cross-functionally to manage the implementation process for new contracts or program changes, including coordination of actions and deliverables across multiple teams.
• Manage response process for requests for additional information about products and resolution of supply issues.

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of category management and procurement experience.
• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• A great attitude – flexibility, optimism, resourcefulness and transparency.
• A proven track record of delivering results delivery while being self-motivated and driven.
• Strong analytical skills to extract insights from complex data sets, data dashboards and reports.
• Strong ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in addition to multiple stakeholders, while meeting deadlines.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail and exceptional work quality.
• Strong networking skills, ability to influence and get things done through informal as well as formal channels including conflict resolution.
• Good knowledge of budgets and forecasting.
• Strong negotiation experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to engage both suppliers and internal leadership, including presentation skills.
• High proficiency level with MS Office applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint required.
• Experience in the foodservice disposables category is advantageous.
• Travel rarely required, but could be up to 5% annually.

Foodbuy USA

Join Foodbuy as a Product Manager and unleash your passions to be creative, develop relationships, and solve complicated problems. This position offers a unique opportunity to gain exposure to and drive impactful enterprise-wide business initiatives through the management of multiple technology products. A successful candidate will focus on the delivery of business value through the build of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products to achieve strategic business goals. They will partner with stakeholders to understand problem statements and develop the Product Vision, Roadmap, and Features required to meet these needs. Within their value stream, they will work closely with Product Owners and technology teams to deliver solutions.

This position is based in our Charlotte, NC office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a thorough understanding of the product landscape, business stakeholders, and value stream to identify, develop, and effectively communicate product strategies and roadmap
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business technology needs and problem statements, building the product roadmap to achieve strategic business goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders, Product Owners, UX, Architecture and other delivery team members to translate business goals and problem statements into products and solutions
• Build epic hypothesis statements and lean business cases for approval through the lean portfolio management process to ensure the right products are being built at the right time, and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is measured against expected results
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) pre-planning and planning by creating, maintaining, and prioritizing feature backlogs that are aligned with the strategic roadmap
• Collaborate with other product managers to ensure alignment across products and value streams
• Get products and solutions “off the shelf” and operational within the business and ensure they are supported
• Build strong internal and external business relationships vital to the success of the product including, stakeholders, delivery teams, members, and customers
• Develop and execute customer centric product management planning and documentation, including the product roadmap, stakeholder mapping, customer journey and empathy mapping, and personas
• Partner with other product managers and delivery team members to foster ideation and innovation, encouraging the sharing of creative ideas and learnings from failures

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3+ years work-related product management or equivalent experience
• Experience with SAFe or scrum agile development methodologies
• Experience in design, development and implementation of product plans
• Experience in working with a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills needed to communicate with various levels of the organization
• Proven ability to develop strong relationships with business stakeholders
• Proven ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Proven business analytical capabilities to solve complex business issues
• Travel as needed (less than 25%)

Foodbuy USA

We have an exciting opportunity for a Category Program Manager to work in a fast-paced high volume environment. If you are looking for a great company culture, free food, hybrid work schedule and awesome leadership then this might be a position for you.

Job Summary

The primary duty of this position is the day-to-day execution of assigned suppliers within assigned tactical category spend outside of major & strategic categories as designated within department and assists with successful delivery of results on all other categories as assigned. This role will not only be leading a portfolio of initiatives to drive supplier programs but also ensuring income is recognized and received for the products and/or services of each supplier. Responsible for establishing and executing against a category plan that achieves growth targets as outlined by the organization. The role also requires working collaboratively across each function of the organization to ensure internal and external stakeholder business plans align with supplier capabilities both now and in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day tactics and operations of assigned categories to achieve intended business objectives

• Execute category strategy in collaboration with your manager that offers targeted business objectives that deliver strong financial results, improvement opportunities and recommendations

• Review and refine analyses, communicate sourcing trends and present results for assigned categories to stakeholders and other interested parties

• Capture direct savings on assigned categories by building strategies which enable cost reduction while ensuring that user needs for the assigned categories are met

• Maintain expertise in the assigned categories through price benchmarking and relationships with suppliers and market experts

• Participate in vendor management activities with internal business teams, as needed; this may include following-up on performance against contract (compliance) and resolution of any constraints or issues

• Responsible for mitigating price increase with suppliers

• Develop business relationships with key internal stakeholders and external suppliers including routine enhancements to agreements, communication of demand/volume changes, updating contracts and sharing end-user feedback

• Responsible for department/assigned category & supply base Accounts Receivables (ARs), on time payments, aging analysis, provide follow-up and action proposals to senior team for improvements

• Suggest to manager and influence annual budgets for your categories with monthly tracking and forecasting

• Work cross-functionally to manage the implementation process for new contracts or program changes

• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 4+ years supplier management experience

• Bachelor’s degree strongly recommended or equivalent work experience

• Experience of broader aspects of supply chain, as well as providing evidence of a broader business perspective such as balancing cost, value, risk & opportunity

• Ability to extract insights from complex data sets using advanced excel skills

• Adaptable to change and thrives in a dynamic environment

• High attention to detail and exceptional work quality

• Strong networking skills, ability to influence and get things done through informal as well as formal channels

• Evidence of an ability to work cross-functionally and influence at senior levels

• Good knowledge of budgets and forecasting

• Strong negotiation experience

• Outstanding presentation skills

• High proficiency level with MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint required

• Travel rarely required, but could be up to 5% annually

Who is Foodbuy?

We are the industry leader in procurement and supply chain solutions. We are the subsidiary to the 6th largest company in the world (Compass Group PLC), yet Foodbuy has the feel of a small entrepreneurial Company. We pride ourselves on our ability to source and provide a variety of products and services that help our customers more easily, and cost effectively, run their businesses. We work with clients in the Hospitality, Restaurant, Healthcare, Education, Entertainment, and Gaming industries, and of course we support Compass Group– which is the world’s largest contract food and support services provider.

Why Foodbuy?

We care about our associates, our clients, and our community. We think big, encourage innovation and debate, and seek out game changers. Our benefits and PTO offerings are strong. Our compensation packages are competitive. And we are constantly growing, and we want our associates’ careers to grow along with us. We have an open and modern work environment, believe in flexibility, and promote a collaborative open door environment.

Additionally, we follow a value system called FORT, which stands for Flexibility, Optimistic, Resourceful, and Transparent. FORT is the foundation for everything we do at Foodbuy. It is how we behave and interact with our clients, business partners and fellow associates.

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Qualified candidates must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Disclaimer: this job post is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all essential responsibilities, skills, tasks, or requirements associated with this position. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position posted, the Company reserves the right to modify or change the essential functions of the job based on business necessity. *Los Angeles applicants: Compass Group will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban the Box ordinance)

Associates At Foodbuy Are Offered Many Fantastic Benefits.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance/ AD
• Disability Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Time Off (varies by site/state)
• Associate Shopping Program
• Health and Wellness Programs
• Discount Marketplace
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Commuter Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

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