Sr. Analyst Procurement Analytics & Supply Planning

Job Title: Sr. Analyst Procurement Analytics & Supply Planning

Reports To: Director of Procurement

FLSA: Permanent, Full Time, Exempt

* Only local candidates will be considered*

About Us: Specializing in custom-crafted culinary solutions—from beverage bases and sauces to marinades and seasonings—ILLES Foods has partnered with food service chains, manufacturers, and retailers across the U.S. since 1927. Our Food Innovation expertise, creativity, and speed to market, combined with a laser focus on customer experience, make us a key partner in product development. As a family-owned, woman-run business, our growth is fueled by deeply held values: operating with integrity, maintaining intentional curiosity, and strong relationship building through the power of partnership.

At ILLES Foods, we strive to be the ingredient that elevates food and enriches the lives of our partners, internal and external.

Job Summary: The Successful candidate supports end-to-end analytics, financial modeling, and performance reporting for the Procurement Team.

This role serves as a strategic thought partner by developing insights, models, and tools that optimize supplier economics, inventory management, profitability and supports growth and new business development.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in data analytics, is highly skilled in modeling & forecasting, is curious and comfortable tackling abstract problems with minimal direction, translating complex data into actionable recommendations that influence cross-functional decision-making and drive measurable business outcomes. Partner conducts themselves in a manner that is aligned with Illes Foods Core Values:
Operate with Integrity, Stay Intentionally Curious, and Believe in the Power of the Partnership.

• Leverage analytics and create financial modeling to support procurement processes and new business development to drive efficiency, support growth and enhance decision making.
• Lead the development of tools, reporting and dashboards to support procurement processes and projects. Enhance or replace existing methods to improve inventory levels, availability, and alignment with production minimizing raw material shortages, excess inventory and write-offs.
• Create reporting to highlight supplier performance, spend and volume for business reviews, and annual planning. Develop dashboards to highlight supplier performance metrics, including pricing, supplier quality issues and timeliness. Develop tools for the procurement team to quickly answer inquiries on unique ingredients, raw material exposure, and other requests as needed.
• Own advanced material planning for seasonal demand and new projects ensuring alignment to the commercialization plan, partnering with sales to sync material lead times with customer timelines, and actively tracking and reporting status of material receipt dates.
• Support alternate vendor and raw material initiatives by completing material shortage analysis on finished goods incorporating forecast, demand vs available supply and developing potential allocation strategies to review with cross functional partners.
• Partner with Sales to develop new customer floor-stock agreements and evaluate existing agreements balancing lead times, shelf life, cost, and overall inventory risk.
• Establish a tracking system for contract compliance, balances and expirations to facilitate timely negotiations for contract renewals and annual volume requirements.
• Lead the development of an analytical framework to simplify vendors, materials and sku rationalization incorporating volumes, cost, purchase history, and supply risk to drive efficiency and ensure business continuity.
• Lead user acceptance testing for procurement supporting the…