Procurement Category Manager, Food & Agriculture

Procurement Category Manager, Food & Agriculture

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The Clorox Company seeks an experienced and dynamic Procurement Category Manager for Food Ingredients and Agricultural Products to join our Global Procurement team. In this strategic role, you will lead global sourcing strategies for a $140M–$170M raw material portfolio that fuels multiple brands within segments exceeding $3 billion in sales. As the category expert, you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive supply continuity, value optimization, innovation, and sustainability using market intelligence and supplier relationships to inform sourcing and risk mitigation strategies.

Key responsibilities include commodity hedging and forecasting, supplier negotiations, and leadership of cross‑functional sourcing initiatives to enable growth and resilience in a dynamic global marketplace.

• Lead, support, and drive procurement strategies for the Food Ingredients & Agricultural Products raw material category across brands, including Cost, Supply Robustness, Innovation, and Sustainability.
• Translate business strategies into an aligned procurement category strategy. Act as the category subject matter expert.
• Interact with internal senior management and external personnel at all levels of the organization on matters requiring coordination between organizations (includes creating/maintaining strategic supplier relationships, managing/resolving systemic supplier issues, assessing suppliers’ capabilities, and presenting risk, etc.).
• Actively lead the design, execution, and implementation of procurement tools and techniques to deliver value for the organization.
• Lead the identification and execution of projects to improve value delivery across the spend portfolio.
• Lead key strategic relationships with suppliers by providing insights on how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities to meet business needs.
• Proactively identify continuous improvement opportunities to advance the category such as design‑to‑value, cost models, and process mapping.
• Monitor market dynamics, supplier competitive landscape, standards, and pricing/costing strategy for categories to understand continuous improvement opportunities and to influence business direction.
• Act as the liaison between R&D and Procurement, ensuring the needs and wants of the business are reflected into the category strategies and executed as planned.
• Support actions required to address P2P issues, such as payments and invoices.

• 4+ years of experience in a global, matrixed environment sourcing direct materials (Raw Materials, Packaging).
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, preferably Business, Agribusiness, Economics/Agricultural Economics, Food Science, Engineering, Natural Sciences, or related fields.
• Experience operating in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience providing recommendations and updates to/interacting with senior leadership.
• Experience with sourcing/procurement tools and methodologies, including RFPs, cost models/should cost/clean sheet, negotiations, and contracts.
• Working knowledge of commodity hedging (preferably agricultural commodities).
• Leadership – demonstrated experience driving positive results through teams in a challenging and fast‑paced environment. Assertive and diplomatic, self‑directed, able to manage up and down the organization effectively, and willing to hold self and others accountable. Ability to drive change and breakthrough performance improvement across a team. Sets or influences direction beyond own area of responsibility. Drives performance improvement across company.
• Commercial acumen – ability to leverage procurement tools to deliver financial results.
• Analytical thinking/problem solving – sorts through complex issues and proposes path to solution. Integrates information from different sources and…