Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Job Type

Full-time

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As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family‑owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award‑winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta,
President specialty cheeses and butters,
Kraft natural and grated cheeses,
Break stone’s cottage cheese,
Cracker Barrel
, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s,
Stonyfield Organic
, Brown Cow
, Oui
, Yoplait
, Go‑Gurt
, :ratio
, Green Mountain Creamery
, and Mountain High
, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun
, Gopi
, and Arz
.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—
Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity
. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION
, your STORY
, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing based in Bedford, NH, Chicago, IL, Buffalo, NY, or Minneapolis, MN.

• Supporting global strategy & negotiation initiatives led by the global procurement team by providing information such as pricing specifications and vendor listings, market intelligence and negotiating at local level for finalisation. Then implement set strategies and initiatives at a North American level.
• Developing and leading local short‑ and medium‑term sourcing strategies by using in‑depth knowledge and analysis of key cost drivers.
• Developing, maintaining, and implementing with the support of the global team a sustainable category purchasing strategy at zone level.
• Accountable for the management of all contracts for the Category at the zone level, including qualifying vendors, tendering, negotiating, and implementing all contracts.
• Leading cost and supply risks for key material supplies within category by maintaining up‑to‑date knowledge of market changes to alert on the risk, contracting in advance of the concern or contracting low and long if it is a price risk, and finding and qualifying alternate vendors or alternate materials.
• Ensuring that purchased materials, suppliers and services are following the company’s requirements.
• Evaluating and ensuring that all plants are following proper purchasing procedures and communicating changes in purchasing policies and procedures as required.
• Identifying and executing negotiation cost savings initiatives on category managed by incumbent, and on escalated contracts from team with senior leadership at supplier end.
• For the categories the incumbent directly manages, identifying and executing value analysis and vendor transfer savings opportunities as a cross‑functional effort to deliver cost reduction targets and optimise other performance measures such as on‑time delivery & lead time on purchased goods and services, without jeopardising quality, flexibility, and supply continuity.
• Participating as an active cross‑functional team member by providing insight to the leadership within Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Quality, R&D, Sales and Marketing and other key functional areas of the business for effective project execution such as new launches, line extensions, and process optimisation. The scope includes sourcing, pricing, as well as sharing process improvement ideas provided by the vendors.
• Being responsible for hiring and leading a high‑performing team of purchasing professionals.
• Leading and managing direct reports by establishing goals and priorities, providing work…