Director, Direct Materials Procurement
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About the company:
WE BELIEVE THERE’S A BETTER WAY TO FEED OUR FUTURE.
By shifting from animal to plant-based meat, we can positively affect the planet, the environment, the climate and even ourselves. After all, the positive choices we make every day – no matter how small – can have a great impact on our world.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
At Beyond Meat, we started with simple questions. Why do you need an animal to create meat? Why can’t you build meat directly from plants? Thus, we make plant-based meats that allow families to eat more, not less, of the traditional dishes they love while feeling great about the health, sustainability, and animal welfare benefits of plant protein. Our goal is to bring exciting change to the plate—and Beyond.
Beyond Meat is focused on raising the bar on talent. We are dedicated to shaping an inclusive culture that drives excellence, innovation, and results by enabling talent acceleration and development, engagement, and employee experience.
The Director Direct Materials drives and supports the development of best procurement practices for direct materials (ingredients and packaging materials), including sourcing strategy definition, deployment, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of ownership savings and Procurement value contribution. Utilizes various practices from global end-to-end strategic category management to ensure best leveraging of our global scale and resources. Leads the team of Sourcing Managers and supports the target setting in alignment with procurement and cross functional leadership to enable the achievement of Procurement goals. Works in collaboration with regional cross functional teams, commercialization teams and innovation teams to understand business needs, regional market insights, risks and opportunities, and help drive company wide initiatives.
The Director Direct Materials drives Procurement value contribution to Beyond Meat while ensuring compliance with policies, strategies and takes ownership of procurement responsibilities related to critical business processes including procure to pay and procurement operations excellence. This is a critical leadership role in the Procurement team. This role manages a total spend of ~$300MM and growing.
The starting annual base pay for this REMOTE role is between USD $160,000 and $190,000. If the Candidate is based on-site in El Segundo, the starting annual base pay range will be adjusted accordingly. The actual base is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.
Beyond Meat is an equal employment opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, ancestry, veteran status, marital status, gender identify, sexual orientation, national origin, liability for military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If you are interested in learning the status of your application, please note you will be contacted directly by the appropriate human resources contact person if you are selected for further consideration. Beyond Meat reserves the right to defer or close a vacancy at any time.
Please note that Beyond Meat has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees. All U.S. employees who (a) physically enter a Beyond Meat facility in the United States, (b) represent Beyond Meat at work-related events, including but not limited to trade shows and product demonstrations, or (c) physically enter customer or potential customer sites in connection with their work for Beyond Meat must take all necessary steps to be Fully Vaccinated as a condition of employment, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved.
RESPONSIBILITY: Manage category strategy development, deployment and planning for direct materials
RESPONSIBILITY: Lead the Team of Sourcing Managers
RESPONSIBILITY: Manage stakeholder engagement, collaboration of teams, and supplier relationships
RESPONSIBILITY: Implement best practices for all direct material categories
RESPONSIBILITY: Deliver assigned KPI's, Targets, and Goals
QUALIFICATIONS: Educational, Technical Skills, and/or Previous Experiences
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