Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

Job Type
Full-time

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,
Président® 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.

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.

The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing is a key member of the Purchasing Team North America (NA), responsible for developing and implementing short‑ and medium‑term purchasing strategies, purchasing policies, practices, and systems. The incumbent will have a strong collaborative working relationship with the Company’s global procurement team, local (Canadian and US) internal stakeholders throughout the organization. The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing will also lead a team to ensure that the overall goals of the organization are being met, including total cost and supply objectives.

• 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 finalization. Then implement set strategies and initiatives at a North American level.
• Develop and lead local short- and medium-term sourcing strategies by using in-depth knowledge and analysis of key cost drivers.
• Develop, maintain, and implement 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 qualify vendors, tender, negotiate, and implement all contracts.
• Lead 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.
• Ensure that purchased materials, suppliers and services are following the company’s requirements.
• Evaluate and ensure that all plants are following proper purchasing procedures and communicate changes in purchasing policies and procedures as required.
• Identify and execute 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 managers, identify and execute value analysis and vendor transfer savings opportunities as a cross-functional effort to deliver cost reduction targets and optimize other performance measures such as on-time delivery & lead time on purchased goods and services, without…