Procurement Category Manager

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Even after celebrating our 10-year anniversary, we continue to see this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.

**Job description**:
As Procurement Category Manager - Protein, you will report to the Category Lead, and you will lead the strategy setting, act as a point of escalation and drive process improvement initiatives across the category.

We are looking for an ambitious, confident, entrepreneurial and high-spirited procurement professional with both the analytical and soft skills to tackle tough challenges and work with suppliers in our procurement process.

**You will**:

- Help develop and optimise our supplier network country-wide for the category
- Provide procurement advice, price updates, reporting, replenishment, compliance & tenders
- Work closely with suppliers to build strong long-term strategic relationships
- Work with suppliers to ensure on-time, on-spec deliveries or discuss shortages/missed deliveries
- Research and develop relationships with new suppliers
- Assist with cost reporting, invoice validation and supplier database maintenance
- Solve problems on-the-go in a fast-paced environment
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and improve workings between Procurement and other teams
- Create ongoing data analysis & category reviews to drive performance strategically within your category and achieve ambitious targets
- Lead process improvement initiatives across the category, leveraging various Procurement levers, optimising and standardising cross-category where possible
- Look to develop and optimise our supplier network as well as new or alternative suppliers
- Lead and influence a variety of stakeholders within the business
- Support new product and concept launches through procurement lens

**You have...**:

- Preferably knowledge and interest in food - protein industry knowledge highly desirable but not required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business / Masters in Supply Chain / Procurement (or equivalent)
- Ideally working within a similar environment and sector (FMCG/Consumer goods)
- 3+ years of strategic procurement / supply chain / commercial consulting experience, (ideally in food but not a must)
- Experience with supplier relationship management and driving continuous improvements within a category
- Quantitative and analytical experience, including solid comfort with Excel
- Strong communicator both written and verbal including solid comfort with Powerpoint
- Proactive, flexible, ambitious, and assertive: you take ownership of your work
- Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload in a fast-paced environment
- Entrepreneurial and can make things happen, sense of urgency

**What you’ll get in return**
- The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing global food technology companies in an exciting growth phase
- Company discount - 70% off HelloFresh boxes
- Flexible working arrangements
- Egoless environment, constant learning with room for personal growth
- Free access to Headspace
- HelloFresh Academies - monthly internal learning & development
- A diverse and vibrant international environment, with offices in 18 countries

Start Date: Immediately - can wait a notice period

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Duration: Full time role

Location: Chippendale Head Office - currently working a hybrid model #LI-Hybrid

**About HelloFresh**:
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work

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