Senior Procurement Manager

Own a global category. Not a piece of one.

Talent ACQ is retained by a privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with manufacturing across the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe. They are hiring a Senior Procurement Category Manager to own global sourcing for a set of critical potato-product ingredients — edible oils, batter systems, and dry ingredients.

Today those categories are managed well regionally. Nobody owns them globally. That is the job: build the single strategy that ties the regions together and then go execute it — supplier consolidation, contract negotiation, specification harmonization, hedging and market risk, continuity planning.

This is a high-visibility seat. You will work directly with Regional Procurement Category Teams, R&D, Regulatory, Food Safety & Quality, Planning, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Treasury, and plant leadership on three continents.

• Global category strategy for edible oils, batter, and dry ingredients — built, socialized across regions, and executed
• Strategic sourcing and supplier selection: evaluation, onboarding, consolidation, and long-term partnership development
• Contract negotiation and commercial terms across multiple regions and currencies
• Cost competitiveness and Purchase Price Variance (PPV), including budget input and coordination on hedging and commodity market risk
• Specification harmonization across regions, in partnership with R&D and Food Safety & Quality
• Supply continuity and risk mitigation — geopolitical, agricultural, logistical, and supplier-specific
• Supplier performance management and the innovation and sustainability agenda inside these categories
• Market intelligence: reading commodity markets and turning that read into timing, coverage, and contract decisions

• 5+ years in procurement or category management, including direct-material categories supporting manufacturing
• Demonstrated ownership of strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation, and supplier relationship management on complex ingredient or commodity categories
• Experience working across regions or in a global matrix — you can influence people who do not report to you and who sit in a different time zone
• Fluency with procurement, spend analytics, and market-intelligence tools

• Food manufacturing, CPG, or agricultural commodity background — potato products, edible oils, batter and coatings, or dry ingredients especially
• Hedging, commodity risk, or PPV management exposure
  
  Track record in supplier consolidation, value engineering, or specification harmonization at global scale
• Experience partnering with R&D, Regulatory, and Food Safety & Quality on ingredient and supplier qualification
• Comfort navigating geopolitical and commodity-market volatility
• Location: Boise, Idaho headquarters. Relocation supported and discussed early.
• Travel: Up to 25%, including international.
• Reports to: Director-level procurement leadership.
• Compensation: Competitive base reviewed annually, plus an annual short-term incentive tied to company and individual performance.
• Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and HSA with employer contributions; employer-paid short- and long-term disability; employer-paid life and AD&D at 2x earnings; 401(k) with immediate 100% vesting on match, plus an employer-funded retirement contribution on top of it and 401(k) matching on student loan payments; deferred compensation eligibility; PTO starting at 160 hours and growing; 10 paid holidays; paid family building and bereavement leave;
  
  mental health program and education assistance.

Most global category roles inherit a strategy. This one builds it. You will have the scale of a global manufacturer behind you, direct access to senior stakeholders, and a category that touches cost, quality, innovation, and resilience at the same time — with room to move internally once you have proven it.