Corporate - Purchasing Manager (CoMan and CoPack)

T. Marzetti Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corporation (NASDAQ: LANC), is a manufacturer and marketer of specialty food products for the retail and foodservice markets. Our retail brands include Marzetti^®, New York Bakery™ and Sister Schubert’s^®, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden^® dressings, Chick-fil-A^® sauces and Buffalo Wild Wings^® sauces. Our foodservice business supplies many of the top restaurant chains in the United States. 

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for identifying, supporting, and executing strategic sourcing activities for Contract Manufacturing (CoMan) and Contract Packaging (CoPack) spend at T. Marzetti. The categories can be complex and impactful from both a Supply Chain and overall company perspective. In this role, the Purchasing Manager will work with cross-functional partners in the ideation, development and launch of new products into Retail stores. The individual in this position should have a procurement background, with some sourcing experience or an ability to learn quickly. The individual should be detail oriented and have a drive to support the team to reach cost savings targets and ensure supply on categories impacting T. Marzetti.

• Support the Finding, Vetting and Qualifying of new Contract Manufacturers (CoMans) and Contract Packers (CoPackers)
• Working on Stage Gate initiatives to insure CoMan/CoPack is prepared to launch new initiatives
• Analyzing the Cost Models (Bill of Materials) to insure accurate and best pricing,

includes Qtr price updates – verify supplier invoices

• Support setting up new CoMans/CoPackers – costing, suppliers and manufacturing
• Working with Demand and Supply teams to coordinate the supply and inventories with the available capacity
• Looking a future pinch points when demand outpaces supply – manage on a monthly basis when future gap is identified
• Managing the attainment, throughput rates, CoMan/CoPack schedules and capacities to ensure production/supply is available for transportation and receipt into DCs
• Managing the CoMan/CoPack operations to avoid customer shortages – working cross functionally with Supply and Transportation Teams
• Lead the sourcing and negotiations at CoMans/CoPackers, as well as day to day supplier and SKU management
• Responsible for CoMan/CoPacker relationship management, includes detailed understanding of CoMan capabilities, contracts and capacity to help drive compliance and efficiencies
• Lead the KPI monthly meetings with CoMan/CoPacker, working cross functionally with QA team on quality metrics
• Support the CoMan/CoPacker innovation projects with sourcing, vetting and qualifying CoMan/CoPacker, includes site visits to fully understand operational and supply chain capabilities
• Key contributor for CoMan/CoPacker strategies including analysis, negotiations and long-term vision
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to lead contract negotiations with CoMan and Co-Packers; develop negotiation methods and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion.
• Support the Sr. Director of CoMan with cost savings opportunities, strategies, cash flow improvement, negotiations, vendor change management and alternate supplier initiatives
• This is both a strategic and a tactical position that requires forward vision and insight to be combined with data gathering and detailed step by step execution

We kindly request that recruitment agencies and staffing firms refrain from submitting unsolicited resumes to our company. Any resumes sent without a prior agreement and access to proper submittal into the ATS will be considered the property of T. Marzetti, and we reserve the right to contact those candidates without any obligation to pay a fee.

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• Preferred 4 years of purchasing experience
• SAP experience preferred
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills
• Ability to effectively negotiate and influence business decisions and change
• High results-orientation

       *Travel is ~30% of the role

Works in a normal office environment where the employee is regularly required to speak, see, hear, sit, stand, talk, type, walk and bend while moving about the facility. The noise level in the office is quiet. Occasional travel to plants or meetings is required.

Lancaster Colony Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary T. Marzetti Company are committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our goal to provide opportunities that nourish the growth of each individual team member.