Associate Category Manager

HelloFresh; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food industry is seeking an Associate Category Manager to enhance its sourcing and vendor management processes. In this role, you will drive cost optimization, ensure ingredient quality, and contribute to product innovation. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in supply chain or procurement, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to communicate effectively across teams. Join us in delivering great value to customers while feeding families across Canada.

Benefits

Competitive salary and health benefits

75% discount on HelloFresh weekly box

Opportunities for learning and growth

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in sourcing, supply chain, or operations.
• Strong analytical and data skills with ability to derive insights.
• Capacity to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support sourcing strategy development and execution.
• Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts.
• Collaborate with culinary and quality teams on product development.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, supply chain, or related discipline

Tools

Excel

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for an Associate Category Manager, Factor who will help us build out and improve our vendor network and continuously improve our end-to-end sourcing process for the Factor brand. Reporting to the Category Manager, you will contribute to and execute our strategic roadmap, manage vendor relationships, support negotiations, launch new ingredients and packaging, and streamline internal procurement processes. As part of the Procurement team, you will play a key role in improving our costs, ingredient quality, supply chain reliability, and product innovation - helping us deliver the best possible value to our customers.

What you will be doing:

• Support development and execution of our sourcing strategy and lead in:
• Cost: consistently optimize our cost base
• Quality: identify and reduce quality errors; build Ready-To-Eat specific solutions
• Reliability: ensure supply availability and proactively mitigate risk in the supply chain
• Customer offering: drive product innovation and create an unique competitive advantage
• Leverage large internal datasets and industry benchmarks to: report on team progress against objectives, identify and prioritize new opportunities, and drive continuous improvement
• Lead and/or support vendor negotiation and selection process for multiple commodity groups
• Manage new and existing vendor relationships, providing feedback on performance and collaborating on key initiatives
• Work with our in-house culinary team to prioritize and develop new products that deliver improved value for our customers
• Collaborate with the Food Safety and Quality team to ensure the highest quality product is consistently delivered to customers.
• Partner with the Supplier Quality team to ensure all selected suppliers comply with ready to eat Quality Standards.

At a minimum, you have:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, supply chain, or related discipline or
• 3-5 years of related experience in a hands-on, high performance environment (ideal backgrounds include: sourcing, supply chain, operations, or consulting)
• Analytical and data skills: able to dig through data independently and draw helpful insights / conclusions. Strong Excel skills are a must!
• Structured approach and communication style: ability to clearly and persuasively communicate with a large variety of stakeholders
• A love for solving complex, ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment with constant change and limited direction
• An ability to travel nationally to support business needs
• Bonus: Strategic sourcing experience; ideally across different steps of the sourcing process; comfortable managing negotiations with vendors
• Bonus: Experience in food purchasing

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and health benefits
• 75% discount on HelloFresh or Chefs Plate weekly box subscription
• High impact work to help feed thousands of families in Canada
• Opportunity to learn and grow
• Work with a hard-working and supportive team

Working Conditions:

It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.

If this sounds like you, please click the "Apply Now" button. If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, but you'd like to know more about joining the HelloFresh team, please visit our Jobs page to view our other vacancies. We'd love to hear from you!

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