Director, Global Commodity Management & Analytics

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Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.

RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.

RBI is strengthening its global procurement organization by establishing a Global Commodities & Intelligence Centre of Excellence (CoE). The CoE will provide commodity intelligence, data, risk management, and commercial decision support to procurement teams across RBI’s brands and markets. It will act as the analytical backbone of the global procurement function, helping regional teams make faster, data-driven sourcing and negotiation decisions.

The Director, Global Commodity Management & Analytics will build and lead RBI’s newly established CoE, including its operating model, governance, analytical capabilities, tools, and team.

This is a newly created global role for a commercially minded commodity leader with deep market expertise, strong negotiation experience, advanced analytical capabilities, and an interest in using AI and data to improve procurement decisions.

The role will focus primarily on the following direct commodity categories:

Sugar, Wheat, Soy, Corn, Pork, Beef, Chicken, Paperboard, and Potatoes

The CoE will own market intelligence, forecasting, cost modelling, risk management, sourcing strategy, and upstream commercial negotiations for these categories, depending on the market.

The role will also provide advisory intelligence and risk support for selected indirect categories, including metals, steel, engineering, energy, maintenance, repair and operations, and industrial gases.

The CoE will lead or support negotiations for upstream raw materials, including raw meat cuts, agricultural commodities, and packaging feed stocks.

RBI follows a five-day, in-office work schedule to support collaboration. Candidates should be comfortable working onsite five days per week.

• Build and lead the Global Commodities & Intelligence CoE, establishing its operating model, governance, team structure, priorities, and ways of working with regional and global procurement teams.
• Define RBI’s global commodity intelligence strategy, including frameworks for market monitoring, price forecasting, risk assessment, scenario planning, and procurement timing recommendations.
• Develop and deploy AI-enabled intelligence capabilities, including forecasting models, real-time market monitoring, should-cost tools, scenario analysis, and executive risk dashboards.
• Own RBI’s global commodity risk management strategy, covering forward contracting, index-linked pricing, supplier diversification, pooling opportunities, hedging considerations, and spot, forward, and long-term supply arrangements.
• Lead upstream commodity negotiations across the direct category portfolio, from market analysis and strategy development through to supplier engagement and commercial execution, as appropriate by market.
• Lead RBI’s Global Contingency and Risk Management Programme, including supply-chain stress testing, inventory and business-continuity planning, geopolitical and weather-risk analysis, reporting, and…