Strategic Sourcing Buyer

The Strategic Sourcing Buyer supports the Strategic Sourcing team by helping execute sourcing initiatives, maintaining supplier and market data, coordinating procurement activities, and supporting cross-functional projects across Operations, Innovation, Quality, Manufacturing, Finance, and Planning.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to build their career within supply chain by gaining a wide array of hands-on experience at a fast growing company!

What You'll Do

Procurement & Sourcing Support

• Support sourcing projects across ingredients, packaging, and selected indirect spend categories.
• Assist with supplier qualification and onboarding activities for new ingredients and suppliers.
• Coordinate requests for proposals (RFPs), supplier documentation, pricing updates, and contract administration.
• Maintain supplier records, pricing files, contracts, and procurement documentation.
• Assist in preparing sourcing recommendations and business cases for leadership.

Supplier & Commercial Support

• Build productive relationships with suppliers through day-to-day communication and follow-up.
• Coordinate supplier samples, documentation, certifications, and commercial information.
• Track supplier performance metrics, pricing changes, and service levels.
• Support supplier business reviews and maintain action item tracking.
• Monitor commodity and ingredient market trends and summarize findings for the sourcing team.

Innovation & Cross-Functional Support

• Partner with Innovation, Quality, Manufacturing, and Planning to help commercialize new ingredients and suppliers.
• Coordinate ingredient evaluations, tasting samples, and commercialization milestones.
• Support reformulations, packaging changes, and new product launches.
• Maintain inventory of innovation ingredients and supplier samples for development work.
• Assist with supplier visits, facility audits, and sustainability initiatives as needed.

Analytics & Process Improvement

• Prepare spend analyses, pricing comparisons, and sourcing reports.
• Maintain procurement dashboards and reporting tools.
• Identify opportunities to improve sourcing processes, documentation, and data quality.
• Help ensure procurement documentation remains organized, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Support special projects as the procurement organization continues to grow.