Director, Supplier Partnerships & Performance

Naturally Network; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

FSA/HSA

Life Insurance

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Time

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)

Holiday Pay

Job summary

KeHE Distributors in Naperville, IL is seeking a Director of Supplier Management to lead a team focused on maximizing supplier profitability and performance. You will drive strategic supplier partnerships and collaborate with categories, supply chain, and finance to streamline processes and improve outcomes.

The role emphasizes leadership, negotiation, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration in a dynamic, employee‑owned distributor environment. Travel is required about 20% domestically.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field required.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience within the food and/or distribution industry required.
• Minimum 4+ years of leading and developing teams.
• Experience with data mining software (i.e., SAP, Cognos) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of Supplier Managers that identify, monitor, and track supplier profitability and operational performance opportunities for a subset of our supplier partners.
• Holds the team accountable to manage and improve supplier profitability and operational performance negotiations, execution of policies and procedures, deduction management, dispute resolution, on time delivery, and compliance of delivery.
• Sets expectations to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient processing of supplier questions and disputes by the team along with providing performance metrics, facilitating processes and supplier business improvement initiatives.
• Provide leadership to ensure suppliers are accountable for key profitability and operational performance indicators such as terms, spoils, value‑added programs, inbound fill rate, on‑time quality, and delivery.
• Proactively educates new and small suppliers on supplier policies and procedures, inbound routing guide, deduction management and dispute resolution.
• Hosts regular business reviews with subset of supplier partners to clearly outline profitability and performance expectations in comparison to actual experience, areas of improvement, and areas of opportunity.
• Creates and fosters a supplier friendly, relational environment of continuous improvement, accountability, and innovation.
• Leads a team of managers that support suppliers with root cause research and resolution on administrative aspects of supplier partnerships.
• Collaborate internally with cross‑functional teams to improve business processes that impact suppliers in their administrative and support activities with KeHE.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Skills

Team leadership

Negotiation

Effective communication

Data analysis

Relationship management

Microsoft Office

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Tools

SAP

Cognos

Job description

KeHE Distributors in Naperville, IL is seeking a Director of Supplier Management to lead a team focused on maximizing supplier profitability and performance. You will drive strategic supplier partnerships and collaborate with categories, supply chain, and finance to streamline processes and improve outcomes.

The role emphasizes leadership, negotiation, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration in a dynamic, employee‑owned distributor environment. Travel is required about 20% domestically.