Position Title: Category Manager, Direct Materials
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Scarborough
Requisition ID: 33763
About McCain.
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Why join the McCain family.• Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.• Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.• Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.
About the role.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
We are looking to hire Category Manager, Direct Materials To strengthen our GB Procurement and Supply Chain function, and to further support our businesses during times of growth and change, the focus is sourcing for our direct raw materials and packaging across the GB region.
Reporting into the Director, GB Procurement, this position is part of the broader procurement team for the Central Europe & Great Britain region and the broader McCain Global Procurement organization. This role will involve core procurement activities across edible oils, diary, batters and coatings plus packaging. The qualified individual will play a key role in the procurement team, participating in the implementation of the organisational road map, identifying saving opportunities, managing projects, and enabling us to increase the maturity level of the GB Procurement function.
Key Accountabilities• Partners and works with all McCain GB plants in the day-to-day operations, aiming to develop a consistently high performing, cost competitive, consistent and reliable raw material supply base.• Identifies, drives, and delivers opportunities on sustainable cost advantage, to support annual procurement and business targets and protect profit margins.• Implements a strong and sustainable commodity strategy to ensure long-term cost and cash performance.• Is responsible for managing relationships with existing and developing new ones, with key raw material suppliers in the region. • Ensures market intel sharing with key stakeholders and internal business partners. • Delivers key targets of procurement organization on cost, cash, cost avoidance. • Project management, as needed, when it comes to new material qualifications, cost saving initiatives, implementation of new supply chains and introducing new suppliers to McCain
Strategy implementation:
• Implement the existing commodities & materials strategy across the direct materials category.• Work with both the GB and CE Procurement Directors, and their teams, to refine the existing strategy and then execute it in ways that supports current business and its future growth. • Own and report on the category's procurement functional performance metrics.
Relationship Management
• Develop strong relationships with stakeholders and leadership team across the business. • Deliver outstanding service to key stakeholders with a view to becoming the regional subject matter expert for direct materials.
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
About You:
• Experienced in Food Procurement/Direct Materials • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written• Ability to work in a team environment and be equally comfortable working independently. • A positive attitude even in intense situations with tight deadlines. This does not mean this is common practice within the business.• Superb organizational skills, thinking ahead on tasks to anticipate future needs and/or potential challenges that may arise, with ability to prioritize.• Ability to problem solve, exercising sound administrative judgement with a sense of urgency and in absence of supervision.• Strong knowledge of Windows and the Microsoft Office suite of products and be willing to, and be adept at, learning new software programs like SAP, Coupa (Procurement Platform), Sedex (Sustainability Platform), PowerBi (Analytics Tool) & others• An adaptable and collaborative style respecting the needs and contributions of others. • Analytical skills, results oriented, stress resistant and flexible.
Where will I Work?
Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working. This means we don't have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office - however we do encourage our full-time, office-based people to connect in person with others for around half of their working time as that's the best way for us to build and maintain our connections. Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough - 1.5 hours away from Leeds City Centre, and about an hour from York. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!) and because hybrid really does mean hybrid at McCain, they get the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues when they're in the office, and balance that with working from home to ensure they get a good life-work balance.
The Benefits of Working for McCain.
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in 'chips'. For working hard, you'll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
• A generous Car Allowance • An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance. • An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay• Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year• Optional health cash plan• Cycle to work scheme• 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
The McCain experience
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually-your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we're better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Procurement
Division: Global Procurement
Department: GB Procurement
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
