Manager, NA Freight & Logistics Procurement

Position Title: Manager, NA Freight & Logistics Procurement
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace
Requisition ID: 33776
About the role.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
Our Manager, Freight & Logistics NA Procurement role is responsible for participating in the sourcing of $340 million in NA freight, storage and logistics spend for the McCain Foods company. This includes creating and maintaining relationships with key freight, logistics and warehousing suppliers on behalf of McCain. Consolidate and maintain the supporting information used for sourcing activities including competitive bidding and contract negotiations. Support supplier relationship management and governance including monitoring performance versus expectations, including the creation of key performance indicators (KPI). Will also be required to recommend, approve and implement business allocations.
Bring leadership on market knowledge, influencing business needs and commercial results to the company. Must have in-depth knowledge of: • Procurement Skills and Best Practices• Freight and Logistics• Supply Chain Operations
Communications and Interactions - The person will manage multiple internal and external organizational relationships. They will lead several supplier relationship management engagements for the spend area, ensuring proper commercial treatment of suppliers by reinforcing policy, ethics and our strategic approach with suppliers and with other company departments.
Engage and collaborate with cross region with peers and other team members of the F&L category to deliver best practices and accelerated results.
This role can be in Oakbrook, IL, Florenceville, NB or Toronto, ON office location.
Accountabilities:
Build reporting and KPI scorecards by working with the operators and IT team to create reporting
Build supplier relationship program for the relative markets to deliver significant value for McCain Foods
Ensure company purchases in the spend pool comply with company internal controls requirements
Build strong client relationships with the McCain team in the freight and logistics category.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Business or Engineering. A master's degree would be an asset
Must have a minimum of 3-5 years of freight and/or logistics experience, preferably in Procurement
Skills:
Core Procurement Experience & Skills
o Linking business needs to leverage scale
o Sourcing strategy development
o Strong supplier management skills
o Negotiating / Influencing skills
o Client relationship management
o Financial analysis skills
o Industry analysis skills• Capacity: Proven ability to plan, organize and manage multiple priorities• Business thinking: Able to connect business needs with external capabilities• Organizational Leadership: Able to lead the organization and supply base to maximize results• Collaboration: Regarded as a constructive team player and have a strong sense of partnership behavior• Analytical thinking: Disciplined and data oriented to gain competitive advantage• Strategic thinking: Able to think strategically and plan for the long term• Communication: Ability to communicate objectives clearly both in writing and orally• Creative & Flexible: Able to evaluate opportunities and respond to changing requirements • Ability to work independently when needed, to make sound business decisions, and can accurately balance risks with business needs• Diversity mindset: Ability to manage in a matrix organization and across regions and cultures
About McCain.
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually-your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we're better together.
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Compensation Package : $91,000.00 -$131,400.00 USD annually + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
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Job Family: Procurement
Division: Global Procurement
Department: Freight and Logistics
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.