Tate & Lyle

Procurement

• Serve as the primary procurement partner for BioSolutions projects and future acquisitions, joint ventures, and growth platforms.
• Align sourcing and supplier strategies with BioSolutions business objectives, commercialization efforts, and capital investments.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing events, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, competitive bidding, and commercial negotiations.
• Develop sourcing strategies and lead supplier selection decisions for materials, services, capital equipment, engineering, and technology providers.
• Negotiate and manage contracts, service agreements, and strategic supplier partnerships.
• Manage procurement activities supporting PDO, EDA-funded initiatives, and future BioSolutions ventures.
• Support EDA-funded and government-supported projects by ensuring procurement activities meet funding, compliance, documentation, reimbursement, and audit requirements.
• Maintain procurement governance and ensure adherence to company policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Drive procurement best practices, process improvements, and capability development across the BioSolutions portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and create long-term value through strategic procurement initiatives.

Business Partner – BioSolutions CAPEX Procurement

Application Support

• Deliver day-to-day technical support for business and manufacturing software applications while maintaining a strong customer service mindset and timely communication with end users.
• Oversee upgrades, vulnerability management, and monthly Windows updates to ensure applications remain current, secure, and high performing.
• Support and enhance interfaces to ensure seamless data flow across systems.
• Collaborate with internal teams and assist with project updates, and ongoing support needs across departments.
• Provide responsive, professional, and solutions-oriented support to business users by listening to their needs, communicating clearly, resolving issues timely, and ensuring a positive service experience.
• Assess manufacturing systems for performance and efficiency, identifying opportunities for improvement and optimization.
• Oversee outsourced vendor performance by reviewing SLA and CSAT metrics and ensuring adherence to support standards.
• Act as the primary advocate for users, addressing escalations and working to continuously improve customer satisfaction.
• Ensure all assigned audit tasks are completed on time and that applications meet compliance and documentation standards.
• Contribute to application lifecycle management by collaborating with Strategy and Innovation teams.
• Maintain a safe working environment and remain available for critical incidents impacting manufacturing systems and business integrity.

Senior Application Support Lead, Manufacturing Systems

• Manage Procurement Strategies
• Build and implement multi-year sourcing strategies that deliver cost savings, risk mitigation, and long-term value aligned with business objectives
• Establishes the strategic vision and guiding principles for the category across all regions
• Lead Strategic Sourcing and Negotiation Activities
• Lead high level, complex bids, and contract negotiations to secure best total value, quality, and performance across suppliers and regions
• Manage Supplier and Partner Relationships
• Establish performance review cadences with key suppliers to drive accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Provide Market and Risk Intelligence
• Lead market and risk intelligence for the category by delivering forward-looking insights on market dynamics, commodity pricing, and supply chain vulnerabilities
• Provide strategic guidance that empowers executive and operational decision-making
• Ensure Compliance and Contract Management Excellence
• Oversee contract lifecycle management to ensure adherence to legal, safety, sustainability, and ethical standards
• Manage sourcing strategies for process chemicals, ingredients, and commodities in volatile markets
• Oversee price risk management, including hedging exposure through OTC financial tools
• Partner with R&D, Quality, and Production to align materials with formulation and process needs
• Engage and Align with Key Stakeholders
• Collaborate across business units and functions to align category strategies with organizational priorities and operational needs
• Lead and Drive Performance
• Set clear expectations, monitor results, and hold the team accountable for delivering against goals
• Develop Talent and Capability
• Coach and support team members to build skills, enhance performance, and enable long-term growth

Manager, Chemicals Procurement

Manager

• Support the Director of Innovation Optimization by building and maintaining the tools, analyses and knowledge assets that underpin innovation prioritization, governance and value delivery
• Turn data into decision-ready insight, standardize ways of working across regions/platforms
• Ensure key learnings, benchmarks and playbooks are captured and reusable
• Develop, maintain and improve core innovation optimisation tools (e.g., templates, scorecards, prioritisation models, dashboards)
• Translate the Director’s governance principles into clear workflows, guidance and training materials; support adoption across regions and platforms
• Prepare materials for innovation forums, capture decisions, and ensure updates are reflected in the relevant systems and reporting
• Run recurring and ad-hoc analysis to support prioritisation, resource allocation and de-prioritisation decisions (e.g., value pools, sensitivity scenarios, capacity vs. demand, milestone risk)
• Partner with FP&A and Analytics to compile inputs for ROI views (e.g., investment, benefits, probabilities, timing) and to surface risks/assumptions in a transparent way
• Support creation and maintenance of the “one source of truth” datasets and visualisations (e.g., cube/game boards), ensuring version control and clear audit trails
• Prepare decision-ready synthesis for stakeholders: concise summaries, recommended options, and implications for portfolio shape and strategic objectives
• Build and maintain the innovation optimisation knowledge base (e.g., playbooks, FAQs, benchmarks, best practices, post-launch learnings, decision logs)
• Standardise and curate reusable assets (templates, examples, coaching materials) to reduce rework and improve quality of submissions into the pipeline funnel.

Business Partner – BioSolutions CAPEX Procurement

Senior Application Support Lead, Manufacturing Systems

Manager, Chemicals Procurement

Innovation Optimization Manager