Senior Procurement Manager - Glass Packaging

Senior Procurement Manager – Glass Packaging

Sazerac Company

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Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family‑owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award‑winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Traveller, and Sazerac Rye.

Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Svedka, Wheatley, Buzz Ballz, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka. Our Louisville office is named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” four times, and our Buffalo Trace Distillery has earned the title of “world’s most award‑winning distillery.”

Whether you’re a recent graduate or an experienced professional, Sazerac provides extraordinary opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, entrepreneurial industry.

• Assist the accounting teams and VP, Procurement to ensure that bills of materials are developed accurately and that information is supplied as needed to stakeholders to assure continued data integrity.
• Work closely with the manufacturing teams to achieve objectives – cost, quality, service and inventory turnover – and drive supplier quality improvement and accountability.
• Support the marketing teams to deliver New Brand and Brand Renovation projects, ensuring on‑time, quality, on‑cost targets are achieved.
• Assist the Accounting and Procurement teams to ensure that costs are accurately captured, reported, and budgeted using the best available market knowledge and analysis, providing relevant and accurate information to allow timely decision‑making concerning commodity pricing.
• Monitor the assigned commodity and category contracts, plan, execute sourcing events and ensure contracts are executed accordingly.
• Analyze demand and supply chains to facilitate proper reorder points of goods, maintain full operational support, proper safety stocks, and reduce excess inventories, allowing operational functionality while maintaining inventory levels that do not tie up company resources in storage and dollars.
• Identify, develop and implement cost improvement strategies with key company suppliers, build long‑term strategic relationships and look for joint improvement opportunities.
• Maintain a list of goals and desired outcomes for personal and professional development, including a 6 month, one year, and 5 year plan, and use the FYI book and the Sazerac Talent Development System as a guide.
• Lead and direct proactive management and an understanding of industry best practices and technology trends for the assigned commodities and categories, ensuring benchmarking is in place and providing insight.
• Support initiatives that achieve results, work closely with manufacturing leadership on various in/outsourcing, cost reduction and performance improvement initiatives, driving supplier quality improvement using the SNCR / DMR Process and ensuring accountability.
• Ensure all supplier qualification are completed and maintained and support and further develop the regular department management and reporting process.
• Assist with the development, implementation and use of the VIR system and develop and implement a set of prospective VE efforts with manufacturing teams, internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Secure information from suppliers and provide needed information to comply with the Bioterrorism Act to the Sazerac internal team.

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years relevant experience
• Packaging experience (glass, metal, corrugated)

• Wine and spirits industry experience
• 5+ years’ experience with development and management of vendor relationships including contracts
• 2+ years’ experience in purchasing materials for food/beverage or packaged goods…