Strategic Food Supply Chain & Procurement Lead

Support Center; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tim Ho Wan is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to lead end-to-end operations across North America for restaurants and commissary. You will drive strategic sourcing, procurement, logistics, inventory planning, and supplier management to ensure cost efficiency and reliability.

Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Quality, JWS, and partners to support new restaurant openings and network expansion, while building scalable processes for sustained growth across a celebrated brand.

Qualifications

• Five to eight years of progressive experience in supply chain, procurement, sourcing, logistics, or distribution.
• Experience supporting multi-unit restaurant, food manufacturing, commissary, retail, or distribution operations.
• Strong supplier negotiation and vendor management experience.
• Experience managing food and packaging categories.
• Experience in inventory planning and logistics coordination.
• Experience supporting growth and operational expansion.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for food, packaging, equipment, and operating supplies.
• Lead supplier selection, negotiations, contract management, and strategic partnerships to deliver sustainable cost improvements.
• Manage food and packaging cost performance by identifying savings opportunities and monitoring commodity markets.
• Develop secondary sourcing strategies and mitigation plans to reduce supply risk.
• Support menu innovation, new product launches, and evolving sourcing requirements.
• Lead supply planning, replenishment, and inventory optimization to maximize product availability while minimizing stockouts and waste.
• Oversee supplier-to-store and commissary-to-store distribution, warehousing, and third-party logistics operations.
• Ensure timely order fulfillment and monitor logistics service levels and delivery performance.
• Develop scalable logistics processes and distribution capabilities to support network growth.
• Develop strategic supplier partnerships through qualification, onboarding, performance management, and regular business reviews.
• Monitor supplier quality, food safety, service, and compliance to ensure operational excellence.
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks by establishing contingency plans for critical categories.
• Drive supplier innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead the supply chain workstream for restaurant openings, ensuring sourcing, inventory, logistics, equipment, packaging, and opening orders are ready for launch.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure successful opening readiness and execution.
• Support market expansion, commissary growth, and future distribution network development.
• Develop scalable supply chain processes, systems, reporting, and infrastructure to support long-term growth.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Procurement

Cost management

Logistics management

Vendor management

Negotiation

Inventory planning

Supply chain analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management

Bachelor's Degree in Logistics Management

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

Bachelor's Degree in Purchasing & Procurement

Bachelor's Degree in Operations Management

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Food Technology

Bachelor's Degree in Related Business Discipline

Job description

Tim Ho Wan is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to lead end-to-end operations across North America for restaurants and commissary. You will drive strategic sourcing, procurement, logistics, inventory planning, and supplier management to ensure cost efficiency and reliability.

Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Quality, JWS, and partners to support new restaurant openings and network expansion, while building scalable processes for sustained growth across a celebrated brand.