Procurement Manager

**About Royal Nut Company**:
Royal Nut Company is a family-owned business, dedicated to sourcing, manufacturing and supplying the highest quality Nuts, Nut Spreads, Dried Fruit, Legumes and Grains, Health Foods, Confectionery, Snack Foods and Spices.

Royal Nut Company has been supplying the Australian food industry with quality food products for more than 30 years.
Being pioneers in this industry, we have always worked with passion, precision and dedication to satisfy our customers’ needs with the finest quality products. This has allowed us to build many long-term relationships with our valued customers and suppliers.

Our products are sought after by manufacturers, distributors, the finest restaurants, chefs, bakeries, chocolatiers, supermarkets, health and specialty food stores in Australia as well as overseas.

**About the role**:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding team of foodies and the RNC Supply Chain Leadership team.
We are looking for a person who:

- is passionate about food and food quality
- is skilled in liaising with suppliers and customers
- is driven to continually improve the processes and quality standards for the company
- is capable and thorough with technical documentation and data entry and analysis
- has knowledge of industry quality standards

The role will be based across our Melbourne offices.

**Responsibilities**:

- Formulate and implement the procurement business plan/ strategy in consultation with the Supply Chain Manager.
- Lead, set goals, hold to account and performance manage the Procurement team.
- Follow approved quality supplier program and product requirements.
- Driving exceptional supplier relationships.
- Actively participate in NPD process by suggesting new products based on market trends.
- Ensure RM availability for internal and external demand.
- Provide prompt responses to Sales & Customer Service team queries.
- Maintain margins and pricing.
- Negotiate best terms with suppliers.
- Continually seek cost savings.
- Maintain data of all transactions in the company system.
- Liaise with internal teams and suppliers to manage purchase to payment process.
- Meet Supply Chain budget and KPI’s.
- Periodic comms to sales teams on market trends, availabilities, price movement, etc

**Skills and Experience**
- 5 years experience in category management/ procurement in a similar role, demonstrating strong negotiation skills.
- Experience with nuts, legumes, spices, snack food, confectionary etc would be advantageous.
- FMCG - Food manufacturing experience.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively engage with internal and external stakeholders.
- Problem solving mindset with the ability to leverage data for decision-making.
- Proficiency in using information systems/ ERP and intermediate MS Excel skills for data analysis.

**Personal attributes**:

- Attention to detail
- Process orientated
- The ability to self-motivate
- Excellent written and oral communications skills
- Excellent ability to understand and adapt to market food trends

**Qualifications**:

- Studies in Supply Chain/ Business or similar

**Salary**: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus

Work Location: In person