Procurement Specialist
- Execute sourcing projects across the Food & Beverage category within allocated timeframes, ensuring project trackers, documentation, and reporting tools are updated in line with specified timelines.
- Support RFX administration, supplier communications, response management, bid analysis, follow-up activities, and preparation of stakeholder-ready summaries and recommendations.
- Support execution of select contract renewals, amendments, supplier onboarding activities, and procurement documentation as required.
- Maintain supplier, contract, pricing, program, and procurement records, ensuring accurate documentation, tracking of key dates, data integrity, and accessibility for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Provide suggestions and input as to how Food & Beverage products, services, programs, and processes could be improved or delivered more effectively, and provide assistance with service reporting as appropriate.
- Respond in a timely manner to stakeholder and supplier requests, serving as a primary point of contact for routine procurement inquiries and escalating issues as appropriate.
- Support building online events for supplier information, e-auctions, and online tendering, ensuring RFX events are run effectively and seamlessly for both internal customers and suppliers.
- Analyze supplier proposals, spend, pricing, compliance, and program performance data to support sourcing decisions, reporting, issue resolution, and category insights while meeting established project timelines and deliverables.
- Provide insight on supplier submissions and pricing files to simplify the review process for internal customers and support savings validation, issue resolution, and category insights.
- Assist with supplier relationship management by preparing business reviews, tracking action items, supporting performance monitoring, and coordinating service or reporting follow-up.
- Coordinate pricing implementation activities, including tracking approved submissions, effective dates, system updates, exceptions, and issue resolution with internal teams and suppliers.
- Perform quality checks on own work and for team members where requested, with emphasis on accuracy of supplier, pricing, contract, reporting, and implementation details.
- Maintain regular and appropriate communications throughout the sourcing process, both internal and external.
- Prioritize workload to ensure timely delivery of projects, reporting, and procurement support while contributing to continuous improvement, process documentation, and knowledge management.
- Bachelor's degree in procurement, supply chain, business, hospitality, analytics, foodservice management, or a related field of work, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
- 3-5 years progressive work-related experience preferred, including:
- Supporting procurement, sourcing, supplier management, contract administration, reporting, pricing administration, or foodservice/hospitality operations.
- Proficiently executing multi-step sourcing and procurement projects and processes, including RFX support, supplier communications, tender/event administration, and stakeholder follow-up.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze RFX submissions, pricing files, spend, compliance, and supplier data, and present clear findings that simplify review and decision-making for internal customers.
- Track record of supporting procurement projects that deliver value to the business, such as savings, cost avoidance, rebates, compliance improvement, supplier performance, or operational readiness.
- Strong procurement technical skills, including Excel, reporting, process documentation, supplier records management, and concise preparation of stakeholder-ready summaries or presentations.
- General understanding of category management methodology, procurement processes, contract terms, amendments, Statements of Work, supplier onboarding, and supplier management activities.
- Effective project management skills, with the ability to prioritize workload, manage multiple competing deadlines, and consistently deliver high-quality work within established timelines.
- Effective communication, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to work across matrixed teams and build productive supplier relationships.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment with a strong work ethic, sound judgment, and high attention to detail.
- Awareness of responsible sourcing, sustainability, supplier diversity, procurement compliance, food safety, brand standards, or hospitality operations is a plus.
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