Hybrid Procurement Engineering Senior Buyer - Corporate Office (Austin, MN) presso Hormel Foods Corporation

PROCUREMENT ENGINEERING SENIOR BUYER -  CORPORATE OFFICE (AUSTIN, MN)

Hormel Foods Corporation 

To save time applying, Hormel Foods does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas for this position at this time.

ABOUT HORMEL FOODS — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ 

Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minnesota, is a global branded food company with approximately $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, Skippy^®, SPAM^®, Hormel^® Natural Choice^®, Applegate^®, Justin’s^®, Wholly^®, Hormel^® Black Label^®, Columbus^®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named one of the best companies to work for by U.S. News & World Report, one of America’s most responsible companies by Newsweek, recognized by TIME magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Independently oversees critical engineering commodity investment, such as equipment and capital spend, as the primary supplier relationship owner with deep category expertise. 
• Interfaces with a broad stakeholder team (>140 engineers) to drive alignment to business decisions. Takes long term strategic view for future needs, contract and price negotiations, N+1 Supplier coverage, and drives productivity. Balances cost, quality, and service, supported by diverse supplier expansion and sustainability.
• Develops procurement strategies for the engineering commodity spend, aligns with cross functional leadership and develops strong contracts that protects Hormel's interest, maintains contract updates, oversee equipment life cycle, and manages effective vendor relationships. Responsible to oversee strategy implementation with direct reports and engineering team with minimal oversight to drive cost savings and containment.
• Purchase all capital equipment, capital project supplies/services and all associated corporate engineering purchases.
  • Negotiate and assist Corporate Engineering in all purchases for equipment, Capex, infrastructure and supplies obtaining the desired costs, terms and conditions relating to the scope of the purchase and project. Annual spend in the excess of $300MM. 
  • Negotiate and execute the sale of all processing and operations equipment.  
  • Facilitate and manage all quality, service and non conformances for corporate engineering
• Negotiate and manage master supply agreements for preferred engineering partners.
  • Negotiate supply agreements for preferred Mechanical, Electrical, CEM, Environmental and Equipment partners. Maintain agreement adherence, resolve non conformances, and settle claims. This position will also manage all engineering terms and conditions/service agreements. This includes working with all suppliers, engineering and legal. 
• Strategic Sourcing
  • This position will provide strategic spend oversight and proactively build supplier relationships for engineering. 
• Engineering Services
  • This position will assist engineering to manage all engineering service agreements across the enterprise. These service agreements include both mechanical, electrical, software, and environmental opportunities. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required

• Broad procurement and business knowledge, as demonstrated by previous work in engineering and/or procurement.
• 7+ years of work experience in Procurement or Engineering, or Supply Chain, leading improvements, and leveraging change management skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to both work independently and in cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills with high resiliency and speed of trust.
• Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and negotiation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.
• Must be a Citizen or National of the United States, a lawful, permanent resident, or have authorization to work in the United States.
• Applicants must not now, or in the future, require sponsorship for an employment visa.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field: Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management or a related hard science/business field.