Procurement Manager - SAP & Supplier Negotiations

Pilgrim; Elkhart (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

JBS Prepared Foods in Elkhart, IN, seeks an experienced Procurement Manager to lead the end-to-end procurement/purchasing lifecycle for materials, packaging, ingredients, services, and MRO, with a focus on SAP accuracy and cross-functional collaboration.

You will partner with global procurement, plant leadership, and R&D to optimize purchasing processes, negotiate with suppliers, and ensure on-time delivery and cost savings while maintaining plant efficiency.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of supply chain experience in purchasing, sales, planning, logistics, or manufacturing management.
• Superior analytic capacity and problem-solving skills.
• SAP or other ERP system in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Knowledge of purchasing, selling, scheduling, and production planning of perishable food products desired.
• Experience in a manufacturing company with broad knowledge of operations, distribution, sales.

Responsibilities

• Work with JBS Global Procurement team on projects and cost savings programs.
• Responsible for implementing and compliance with all JBS Procurement/Purchasing processes.
• Identify chronic quality issues and trigger problem-solving.
• Ensures delivery of requested materials from JBS schedulers, planners, and requisitioners.
• Ensures prompt, accurate, creation and maintenance of purchase requisitions and purchase orders.
• Ensures optimization of SAP to improve purchase process and accurate financial record documentation.
• Develop positive relationships with suppliers and keep in close contact regarding open orders and service levels.
• Works with finance team to resolve block invoice issue’s.
• Work with the plant leadership team to guarantee supply of all materials and services needed; collaborate with team to identify and avoid issues that would impact plant efficiency.
• Help process requisitions at the plant level.
• Support resolution of AP issues with SAP Workflow (i.e. Workflow, GR/IR Reconciliation).
• Works with plant management to improve overall purchasing processes, material management and optimize inventory while maintaining plant efficiency.
• Conversion of all purchase requisitions to purchase orders according to release strategies.
• Confirms all purchase orders in SAP within 48 hours.
• Processes and supports product claims with suppliers, brokers and plants to an agreeable resolution and reimbursement for issue dealing with packaging and ingredients.
• Support inventory activities (cycle counts).
• Work with corporate procurement to identify/setup/negotiate co-packers as needed for Culinary.
• Partner will plant teams to ensure correct materials are in place on a daily basis.
• Support optimization of SAP to improve purchase process and accurate financial record documentation

Skills

Analytical thinking

Negotiation

Team collaboration

Oral and written communication

Self-starter

Problem solving

Leadership

Tools

SAP

Job description

JBS Prepared Foods in Elkhart, IN, seeks an experienced Procurement Manager to lead the end-to-end procurement/purchasing lifecycle for materials, packaging, ingredients, services, and MRO, with a focus on SAP accuracy and cross-functional collaboration.

You will partner with global procurement, plant leadership, and R&D to optimize purchasing processes, negotiate with suppliers, and ensure on-time delivery and cost savings while maintaining plant efficiency.