Aramark

Procurement Specialist

Aramark

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Springfield • Massachusetts • United States

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Salary

💰 $65,000 - $85,000 per year

About the role

  • Manage vendor relationships, communications, product allocations, substitutions, and order guide accuracy while collaborating closely with Supply Chain, nutrition, culinary, marketing, and frontline teams.
  • Represent Aramark Food Services in strategic partnerships, and provide vendors with projections, trends, and strategic direction.
  • Ensure all products being purchased are in compliance with all guidelines.
  • Build relationships with vendors by communicating in a timely effective manner.
  • Maintain all purchasing aspects of food production software.
  • Track and report vendor data in a way to reduce expenses, improve effectiveness, improve on-time product delivery into unit, and decrease product substitutions.
  • Cost analysis of products purchased.
  • Manage commodity entitlement spend and regularly, proactively communicate to all stakeholders.
  • Create public presentations around commodity usage, inventory, spend, distribution, etc.
  • Forecast average usage of products and communicate any changes to vendors.
  • Respond to and resolve vendor/purchasing issues from the field.
  • Reports to Business Process Director.
  • Manages Procurement team including scheduling, performance evaluation, structure, and daily responsibilities.
  • Identify current approaches and methods of procurement and what can be done to create value with existing tools, including Policy, People, Process and Technology.
  • Focus on the Five Ps of Food Production and ensure operational excellence.
  • Determine what actions can be taken to better leverage Aramark purchasing power.
  • Establish and align Aramark procurement strategies with strategic supply base.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree Required
  • Understand supply/demand dynamics
  • Understand USDA Commodity dynamics/align business with internal partners
  • The ability to identify, evaluate and mitigate supply risk
  • The ability to evaluate supply market trends, disruptors and available price risk management tools
  • Food service management experience a plus
  • Mastery of Microsoft Excel and Google applications
  • Proactive communication skills
  • Data-driven decision making experience
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • work/life resources
  • retirement savings plans like 401(k)
  • paid days off such as parental leave and disability coverage
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cost analysisdata-driven decision makingfood production software managementsupply risk evaluationsupply market trend evaluationcommodity entitlement managementforecastingvendor data trackingorder guide accuracystrategic procurement
Soft Skills
proactive communicationrelationship managementproblem resolutionteam managementperformance evaluationcollaborationstrategic thinkingpresentation skillsorganizational skillseffective communication
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree