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The Strategic Supply Manager develops and maintains supplier relationships to maximize business opportunities, negotiates contracts, monitors performance, and leads annual Demand Plan process.

Key Responsibilities:

Supplier Management

• Develops trusting relationship with suppliers, evaluates business initiatives, and recommends appropriate courses of action.
• Monitors supplier performance to assess ability to meet quality and delivery performance.
• Facilitates communication as needed between SFI’s team and supplier’s team (logistics, quality and food safety, accounting, etc) for an effective transaction flow.
• Leads annual Demand Plan process in collaboration with Sales Department.
• Evaluates risk and advises payment or payment hold to Accounting and Management; ensures resolution of supplier accounting matters.
• Prepares reports and attends onsite supplier visits as scheduled.

Supply Driven Opportunities and Contract Management

• Assesses current market conditions and negotiates contracts to maximize business opportunities and return.

• Manages Master Contracts, ensuring suppliers understand and comply with terms of agreement.

• Provides relevant information in Sales Priority Meeting to enable Business Managers to make decisions on shipment priority and communicate agreed sales priorities to suppliers.

• Negotiates packaging payment terms with suppliers.

• Recommends options to Sales Driven Opportunities with adequate supply options and pricing.

Program Management

• Plans and manages programs by commodity per growing season and origin; leads Annual Demand Plan per commodity to promote sales and opportunities.

• Maintains knowledge of seasons per commodity and shares crop status with the team (beginning of crop, product availability, and constricted items).

• Publishes information on Crop Report and Business Highlights distributed to customers.

• Publishes shipping schedules based on supplier capability/capacity and adjusts shipping schedules based on sales needs.

• Leads weekly key supplier meetings to review programs and crop status, conducts supply meetings and program reviews with sales staff when relevant.

Required Skills and Experience:

• BS in International Business, Biologic Sciences, Agribusiness, or Supplier Management or 5+ years related experience
• Bilingual English and Spanish skills
• Basic proficiency in Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Skilled problem solver with the ability to exercise good judgment with minimal work direction
• Well organized, self-starter with the ability to multitask and work effectively with conflicting priorities and changing deadlines
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of personalities and strong team spirit; good sense of humor a plus
• Requires up to 20% travel domestically and internationally

Compensation:

The target hiring range for this position is: $55,000 - $80,000 per year. Compensation is based on a variety of relevant factors, including prior work experience, skills, professional qualifications, and internal pay equity.

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