Own a global category. Not a piece of one.
Talent ACQ is retained by a privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with manufacturing across the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe. They are hiring a Senior Procurement Category Manager to own global sourcing for a set of critical potato-product ingredients edible oils, batter systems, and dry ingredients.
Today those categories are managed well regionally. Nobody owns them globally. That is the job: build the single strategy that ties the regions together and then go execute it supplier consolidation, contract negotiation, specification harmonization, hedging and market risk, continuity planning.
This is a high-visibility seat. You will work directly with Regional Procurement Category Teams, R&D, Regulatory, Food Safety & Quality, Planning, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Treasury, and plant leadership on three continents.
What you'll own
- Global category strategy for edible oils, batter, and dry ingredients built, socialized across regions, and executed
- Strategic sourcing and supplier selection: evaluation, onboarding, consolidation, and long-term partnership development
- Contract negotiation and commercial terms across multiple regions and currencies
- Cost competitiveness and Purchase Price Variance (PPV), including budget input and coordination on hedging and commodity market risk
- Specification harmonization across regions, in partnership with R&D and Food Safety & Quality
- Supply continuity and risk mitigation geopolitical, agricultural, logistical, and supplier-specific
- Supplier performance management and the innovation and sustainability agenda inside these categories
- Market intelligence: reading commodity markets and turning that read into timing, coverage, and contract decisions
What you bring
Required
- 5+ years in procurement or category management, including direct-material categories supporting manufacturing
- Demonstrated ownership of strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation, and supplier relationship management on complex ingredient or commodity categories
- Experience working across regions or in a global matrix you can influence people who do not report to you and who sit in a different time zone
- Commercial judgment under incomplete information; comfort making calls in volatile markets
- Fluency with procurement, spend analytics, and market-intelligence tools
Preferred
- Food manufacturing, CPG, or agricultural commodity background potato products, edible oils, batter and coatings, or dry ingredients especially
- Hedging, commodity risk, or PPV management exposure
- Track record in supplier consolidation, value engineering, or specification harmonization at global scale
- Experience partnering with R&D, Regulatory, and Food Safety & Quality on ingredient and supplier qualification
- Comfort navigating geopolitical and commodity-market volatility
- Location: Boise, Idaho headquarters. Relocation supported and discussed early.
- Travel: Up to 25%, including international.
- Reports to: Director-level procurement leadership.
- Compensation: Competitive base reviewed annually, plus an annual short-term incentive tied to company and individual performance.
- Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and HSA with employer contributions; employer-paid short- and long-term disability; employer-paid life and AD&D at 2x earnings; 401(k) with immediate 100% vesting on match, plus an employer-funded retirement contribution on top of it and 401(k) matching on student loan payments; deferred compensation eligibility; PTO starting at 160 hours and growing; 10 paid holidays; paid family building and bereavement leave; mental health program and education assistance.
Why this one is worth the move
Most global category roles inherit a strategy. This one builds it. You will have the scale of a global manufacturer behind you, direct access to senior stakeholders, and a category that touches cost, quality, innovation, and resilience at the same time with room to move internally once you have proven it.
