Director of Supply Chain

At Fogo de Chão, we strive to give our guests an unforgettable dining experience of discovery while showcasing the Culinary Art of Churrasco. Our mission is to ignite fire and joy to care for our team, our guests, and our communities. We believe better futures start when we bring our best to the table every day to feed a Purposeful Future – starting with our team members.

We feed our teams with fulfilling job opportunities, making space around the table so everyone feels welcome. At Fogo, we’ll provide you with a fulfilling career with professional and personal growth opportunities at every level. Our values of teamwork, integrity, excellence, humility, and Deixa Comigo (we’ve got you!) are more than just words; they’re how we do things every day.

• Develop and maintain a high-performance culture, resulting in continued success meeting functional KPIs and improved levels of customer service to employees and customers.
• Strong negotiating skills are needed, able to work deals, find new suppliers, understand tariffs, surcharges, and be willing to challenge existing suppliers when challenges arise
• Identify and mentor key talent and help to ensure success of all individuals in the department.
• Assure our restaurants' continuous supply of products and services while maintaining optimal costs and consistent quality, service, and performance expectations.
• Maintain relevant knowledge of short/long-term related commodity markets and industry trends that affect products and services supply and innovation.
• Execute accurate data on changing costs, identify and forecast quickly and efficiently, minimizing risk to plan spend.
• Manage the tactical operations of the materials management and purchasing function.
• Collaborate with purchasing team to ensure accurate forecasting, and operations team to ensure alignment of activities and objectives.
• Work across a global, matrixed organization, sharing and learning best practices, and balancing global, national, and local needs and impacts.
• Develop, collaborate and maintain positive, productive relationships with all cross-functional internal and external customers, sharing and learning best practices.
• Ability to lead a team of direct reports as assigned to execute supply chain activities for both operations and our support center.
• Support as directed by SVP of Supply Chain as needed, including the ability to perform other projects as assigned.
• Understand business and financial concepts such as commodity markets, P&Ls, budgets, etc.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Identify vendor opportunities and challenges and partner with the purchasing team to ensure appropriate resolution.

• Visioning – Identify long-term goals and champion the implementation of different or alternative ideas.
• In-Depth Problem Solving & Analysis – Solve difficult problems through careful and systematic evaluation of information, possible alternative and consequences.
• Championing Change – Take action to support and implement change initiates effectively.
• Driving for Results – Challenge and push the organization and yourself to excel and achieve.
• Influencing & Persuading – Convince others to adopt a course of action.
• Managing Others – Direct and lead others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team to drive results.
• Organizational Savvy – Recognize and understand organizational politics and work within organizational dynamics to accomplish objectives.
• Business Acumen – Understand general business and financial concepts, understand the company’s business, and use both general and specific knowledge to be effective.
• Integrity – Uphold a high standard of…