Manager, Supplier Management

Overview

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

Responsibilities

The Supplier Manager is responsible for monitoring, measuring, and maximizing supplier profitability and operational performance, identifying areas opportunity, and managing the business relationship with a subset of our supplier partners. The teams’ overall goal is to establish strategic connections with our supplier partners and ensure supplier partner success and a positive experience around ease, cost, and speed of doing business with KeHE.

The Supplier Manager is responsible for collaborating with Category Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Pricing, and Freight to optimize business processes and positively impact their supplier relationships from an administrative perspective.

Qualifications

• 4-year bachelor’s degree in business or related field of study.
• Experience within the food and/or distribution industry with 3+ years.
• Successful negotiator and ability to drive influence and change.
• Articulate and persuasive communication skills. Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
• Ability to synthesize information and make clear, concise recommendations on course of action.
• Strong relationship management skills and ability to guide at senior management level both internally and externally.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, budget and proactively manage profit drivers such as gross margin %, promotional spend, spoilage, fees, and other program expenses.
• Demonstrated skills transferring information gained through analysis to fact based, action-oriented presentations for delivery to both internal and external stake holders. Need to provide examples of PowerPoint, Excel and other tools used to transfer this product and program knowledge.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Possess a sense of urgency and attention to accuracy and detail.
• Ability to effectively manage a wide variety of tasks simultaneously and often with minimal direction or time conflicting pressures.
• Willingness to travel domestically, occasionally over weekends (about 20%).