Onsite Procurement Specialist

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About the role

  • 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

Job title

Procurement Specialist

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$65,000 - $85,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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