Global Procurement Lead – Oils, Batters & Dry Ingredients

Talent ACQ; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

HSA contributions

Disability insurance

Life insurance

AD&D insurance

401(k) with match

Student loan match

Employer retirement contributions

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Family leave

Bereavement leave

Mental health program

Education assistance

Job summary

Talent ACQ, based in Boise, Idaho, seeks a Senior Procurement Category Manager to own global sourcing for key potato-product ingredients—edible oils, batter systems, and dry ingredients. You will build a single global strategy, consolidate suppliers, and negotiate terms across regions and currencies.

You will work with regional teams across three continents to ensure continuity, risk management, and supplier performance while advancing sustainability and innovation in the ingredients portfolio.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in procurement or category management, including direct-material categories supporting manufacturing.
• Experience owning strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation, and supplier relationship management on complex ingredient or commodity categories.
• Experience across regions or in a global matrix with influence across time zones.
• Fluency with procurement analytics and market-intelligence tools.

Responsibilities

• 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 terms across regions and currencies.
• Cost competitiveness and PPV, including budget input and hedging and 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.

Skills

Global category mgmt

Negotiation

Cross-regional coordination

Spend analytics

Job description

Talent ACQ, based in Boise, Idaho, seeks a Senior Procurement Category Manager to own global sourcing for key potato-product ingredients—edible oils, batter systems, and dry ingredients. You will build a single global strategy, consolidate suppliers, and negotiate terms across regions and currencies.

You will work with regional teams across three continents to ensure continuity, risk management, and supplier performance while advancing sustainability and innovation in the ingredients portfolio.