WHO WE ARE

Baldwin Richardson Foods, Co. is a global manufacturer of custom food and beverage ingredients and one of the largest African-American family-owned and-operated businesses in the food industry. The Company has strong supply relationships with some of the world’s largest Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and Food Service customers. Iconic, global food brands entrust Baldwin Richardson Foods as their partner to deliver the highest quality products that exceed industry standards. The Company also manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson’s Ice Cream Toppings and Nance’s Mustards and Condiments. Baldwin Richardson Foods has manufacturing locations in Macedon, NY and Williamson, NY; Corporate Offices in Oakbrook Terrace, IL and Food Innovation Center Westmont, IL. This hybrid role is in our Macedon, NY facility.

WHAT WE NEED

This position will play a critical role in the company’s ability to deliver high-quality, cost-effective products to our customers by effectively sourcing contracting direct materials (traded and untraded) on a timely basis at the lowest total cost, consistent with forecast requirements. This role has full-cycle ownership of the procurement process for assigned contracts and/or vendors. The Sourcing Specialist will institute strategy to manage and mitigate cost/risk for market driven categories.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• You will actively gather information from third part sources, resolve issues, support new product development, negotiate outcomes, and prepare negotiation strategies for review and implementation.
• Supports and leads process, analytical analysis, metric, and systems development initiatives from ideation through implementation.
• Implement strategy and target to drive cost out of controllable spend (negotiable inputs, processing, waste).
• Create competition within categories to drive bottom-line impact and risk mitigation by sourcing from multiple suppliers including RFP development, implementation, analysis of bid submissions, award of contracts as required according to documented sourcing strategy.
• Participate in developing annual budgets for categories of responsibility.
• Develop Supplier engagement plan based on category strategy.
• Manage suppliers based on metrics collected via scorecard across BRF disciplines.
• Understand supplier’s out-going quality assessment process.
• Execute and manage all approved contracts. Ensures accurate maintenance of contracts in SAP to reduce invoice referrals and ensures timely review and return of invoice referrals.
• Develop at least one new diversity spend opportunity in alignment with the corporate objectives for the diversity spend program.

Required Education/Experience:

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  Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university in business-related discipline (i.e., business, economics, finance, accounting, supply chain)
• A minimum of three (3) years of manufacturing industry experience in a sourcing or procurement role with direct responsibility for supplier management and pricing/costs decisions.
• Must have direct sourcing experience of categories related to a manufacturing environment.
• Must possess strong supplier management skills, have had responsibility for industry assessments, financial analysis, negotiating contracts and cost modeling.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven experience overcoming challenges in manufacturing as related to the procurement process.
• Ability to consistently perform risk mitigation in the commodity supply chain.
• Proven ability to implement process improvement initiatives within the procurement supply chain.
• Analytical and adept at MS Suite including Excel and PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio a plus.
• Ability to think strategically, convert strategy into action and be workflow and process driven.
• Knowledge of OSHA, FDA, and safety regulations preferred.
• Ability to independently prioritize and multitask.
• Due to SQF regulations, all employees must be able to fluently read, write, and converse in the English language. Required for every posting

• Computer Skills: Systems proficiency with SAP desired. Experience with an ERP system required. Experience with Business Information query Tools preferred.
• Language Ability: Must be able to read, write, converse, and comprehend in the English language. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Math Ability: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Generous benefits package, including low premium and out-of-pocket medical/dental/vision costs, vacation, sick, 401k with matching, holiday, birthdays off, designated holidays and floating holidays.