Heartland Food Products Group

Procurement

• Provide day-to-day support to the Strategic Sourcing team by assisting with basic sourcing, reporting, market tracking, and supplier coordination activities.
• Help maintain organized data, improve visibility to packaging costs and supplier performance, and support ongoing sourcing projects across direct material packaging categories.
• Help gather and organize supplier quotes, bids, and pricing sheets for packaging materials.
• Track monthly market movements for key packaging inputs like resin, corrugate, paperboard, and aluminum.
• Maintain basic pricing trackers, savings logs, and PPV files.
• Update sourcing project trackers so timelines, owners, and status are current.
• Support RFI/RFP preparation by compiling supplier lists, bid inputs, and comparison tables.
• Support supplier scorecards by gathering delivery, quality, and service data.
• Prepare draft materials for supplier business reviews, including charts and summary slides.
• Follow up on open action items with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Assist with packaging specification files, version control, and document organization.
• Help coordinate packaging artwork, print proofs, and pre-press routing with suppliers and internal teams.
• Track milestones for new product launches to help ensure packaging is ready on time.
• Research potential secondary suppliers and organize basic capability information.
• Perform general data clean-up and file management for sourcing, supplier, and packaging records.
• Other duties as assigned.

Intern – Packaging Sourcing

Manager

• Support the Senior B2B Manager and R&D leaders, taking products from concept to production
• Collaborate with cross functional teams and provide supply chain solutions
• Champion and lead product development efforts
• Maintain the relationship and satisfaction of all contract manufacturing partners
• Work jointly with R&D, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain and Contract Manufacturing customers to source, justify, scope, scale up and commercialize new products
• Coordinate internal cross-functional team needs for product startup, trials, qualification, through steady state production
• Execute and maintain reporting for B2B category
• Achieve key business results including efficient manufacturing, impeccable quality and outstanding service to customers

Intern – Packaging Sourcing

Associate Manager, Business-to-Business