About the Role
We are seeking a Procurement Manager to guide Siete's sourcing efforts, ensuring our foods reach grocery shelves. This role involves meticulous attention to mitigating supply risk and building strong supplier relationships.
Responsibilities
- Lead execution of sourcing strategies across assigned Procurement vertical (Ingredients or Packaging), while maintaining ownership of select strategic categories, suppliers, and manufacturing partner relationships.
- Oversee sourcing initiatives including RFPs, contract strategy, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and category roadmaps, providing guidance and support on the team's most complex sourcing activities.
- Serve as an escalation point for manufacturing partners, supplier negotiations and supply constraints.
- Translate market intelligence into cross-category sourcing strategies, business recommendations, and annual planning.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate supply risks across the network, including geopolitical events, capacity constraints, and single-source dependencies, while communicating risks and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Lead enterprise Procurement initiatives that extend beyond assigned category ownership to improve Procurement capabilities and cross-functional alignment.
- Oversee Procurement contracting standards, templates, ensuring agreements remain aligned with business needs while guiding the team's contract development efforts.
- Partner cross-functionally with Planning, Finance, R&D, Quality, Commercialization, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Legal to align procurement strategies with business objectives.
- Lead Procurement performance reviews by synthesizing quarterly pricing activities and key procurement KPIs to drive actionable insights.
- Develop team capabilities through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and guidance on category ownership.
- Drive consistency across Procurement by standardizing tools, reporting, contracting approaches, supplier governance, and best practices across categories and manufacturing partners.
- Develop cross-category tools, dashboards, reporting, and planning resources that improve Procurement execution and decision-making.
- Oversee Procurement's commercialization and material transition strategy by aligning artwork implementation, inventory runout, supplier readiness, and obsolescence planning across categories and manufacturing partners.
- Design inventory management strategies when needed to address risk, service, or cost concerns across the network.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, or Supply Chain within the CPG or food manufacturing sector required.
- Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- ERP systems
- Procurement platforms
- TraceGains
- Spend analytics
- Business intelligence tools
- Power BI
- Tableau
- RFP software
Work Type
- 15% travel annually
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Siete Foods is a mission-driven company focused on providing high-quality food products.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
- EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents
- PepsiCo EEO Policy
- Pay Transparency Statement
