Your role
Increase business velocity by ensuring rapid and stable access to strategic lateral flow repositories. This position requires knowledge of industrial processes, food engineering, manufacturing best practices, and natural abilities in B2B strategy. You will focus on the early stages of our supplier lifecycle, more specifically, mapping, prioritizing and sampling products. Being the first point of contact with suppliers, you must also perfectly position Hubcycle for future collaboration, while maintaining a down-to-earth approach with your industry suppliers. Thus, the position includes mastering the negotiation process such as positioning, closing and B2B user experience in complex environments. Particular attention to suppliers constraints will allow you to achieve your objectives. This position involves great dedication to problem solving and excellent working relationships
The job
You carry out the mission of International Sourcing Manager, and report to the VP Procurement & Supply Chain.
Your position requires being in constant communication with all of the company's teams to guarantee customer satisfaction and the achievement of objectives.
As an expert, you build loyalty and develop your supplier portfolio, you ensure the quality of deliverables and the development of your product portfolio.
Tasks and duties
Sourcing
- Develop new supply chains for categories (new and existing) that will create a minimum of €100k of business.
- Suggest new partners that will match the selected finished product categories.
- Respond to new exploratory requests in real time and complete the Deposit List for each new candidate.
- Optimize sourcing procedures to achieve maximum efficiency.
- Actively participate in the construction of the procurement strategy and execute it within your scope.
- Ensure cooperation of parties involved to secure agreement on terms and procedures, maintaining long-term relationships with suppliers.
- Monitor supplier performance.
Operational
- Use and enrich the CRM for all communication and file processing : digitalized approach.
- Leverage existing tools to reach prospects/vendors and obtain inbound data to track.
- Participate in training and seek opportunities to improve operations.
- Establish strong and fluid internal collaboration with each department.
- Maintain excellence in the prospect/supplier relationship and be a force for proposing “best practices” in this area.
