Procurement Supervisor
$85,000–$95,000 year
On-siteNorth Hollywood, California, United States
Job Summary
Oversee sourcing and supply management for green coffee, packaging, and ingredients while negotiating contracts and managing costs to ensure uninterrupted material availability. Enforce disciplined inventory management across raw materials and ancillary items, balancing stock levels with working capital objectives and leading cycle count schedules. Supervise company buyers and purchasing administrators, ensuring execution accuracy while training team members on planning logic and ERP usage. Collaborate with Production Planning, Sales, and Finance to align supply commitments with demand forecasts and proactively recommend mitigation plans for identified risks. Manage vendor records in the ERP system, support annual budgeting, and analyze supplier performance to drive cost-reduction initiatives and maintain acceptable margins.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business, or related field—or equivalent professional experience
- 4–7 years of experience in procurement or inventory management within CPG or manufacturing
- Direct experience managing cost-of-goods materials, including ingredients, packaging, and co-manufactured products
- Prior experience leading or supervising purchasing or planning staff
- Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems
- Food & Beverage or regulated manufacturing experience
- Strong understanding of demand planning, MRP, and inventory optimization
- Proficient in office productivity applications, with advanced skills in Excel or equivalent spreadsheet software
- Analytical mindset with strong cost and margin awareness
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced production environment
- Excellent cross-functional communication and leadership skills
- High attention to detail with strong execution discipline
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Can breakdown work into process steps; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks
- Effective verbal communication skills to convey and receive information and instructions clearly, in person or by phone
- Visual acuity for detailed work, color recognition, data and document review, equipment operation, and observation of surroundings
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 25 pounds
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move items over 50 pounds
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