Procurement Specialist managing vendor relationships and supply chain strategies at Aramark. Providing strategic direction and ensuring compliance with purchasing guidelines, data tracking and vendor relationships.
Responsibilities
Manage vendor relationships, communications, product allocations, substitutions, and order guide accuracy while collaborating closely with Supply Chain, nutrition, culinary, marketing, and frontline teams.
Represent Aramark Food Services in strategic partnerships, and provide vendors with projections, trends, and strategic direction.
Ensure all products being purchased are in compliance with all guidelines.
Build relationships with vendors by communicating in a timely effective manner.
Maintain all purchasing aspects of food production software.
Track and report vendor data in a way to reduce expenses, improve effectiveness, improve on-time product delivery into unit, and decrease product substitutions.
Cost analysis of products purchased.
Manage commodity entitlement spend and regularly, proactively communicate to all stakeholders.
Create public presentations around commodity usage, inventory, spend, distribution, etc.
Forecast average usage of products and communicate any changes to vendors.
Respond to and resolve vendor/purchasing issues from the field.
Reports to Business Process Director.
Manages Procurement team including scheduling, performance evaluation, structure, and daily responsibilities.
Identify current approaches and methods of procurement and what can be done to create value with existing tools, including Policy, People, Process and Technology.
Focus on the Five Ps of Food Production and ensure operational excellence.
Determine what actions can be taken to better leverage Aramark purchasing power.
Establish and align Aramark procurement strategies with strategic supply base.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree Required
Understand supply/demand dynamics
Understand USDA Commodity dynamics/align business with internal partners
The ability to identify, evaluate and mitigate supply risk
The ability to evaluate supply market trends, disruptors and available price risk management tools
Food service management experience a plus
Mastery of Microsoft Excel and Google applications
Proactive communication skills
Data-driven decision making experience
Benefits
medical
dental
vision
work/life resources
retirement savings plans like 401(k)
paid days off such as parental leave and disability coverage
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