Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, but operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Pay Range: $115,000 to $130,000 per year

Purpose of Position:

To provide leadership and overall management of the company’s category spend in feed nutrition ingredients. Annualized spend in excess of $200 million. The individual is responsible for the comprehensive management and development of the feed nutrition ingredients category, leading the sourcing, contracting, ordering and logistics of supply for our internal feed milling operations located throughout the country. This includes supply security, supplier management & optimization, contracts, commodity risk management, market assessments, sustainability opportunities, and budgeting.

This position will manage a team of buyers and ensure that in all instances, they are positively contributing to the company’s sustainability and profitability through cost savings and continuous improvement projects, focused energy sustainability, regulatory management, inventory cycles and costs and through the elimination of waste as identified. These are to be achieved while ensuring that the premium quality products we require are available to our customers as needed and at a highly competitive value.

The role requires leadership, project management, initiative and a strong analytical/problem solver. The individual is expected to be flexible and willing to adapt to changing business and environmental demands and work well within cross-functional teams.

Essential Job Functions:

Responsible for the comprehensive development of Feed Ingredients strategies and sourcing management for meals, micro-ingredients, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, coccidiostats, feed fats additives, and other feed ingredients that drive cost reduction and usage optimization.

Investigate, assess value, and manage alternative fuel source and sustainability opportunities.

Manage a comprehensive commodity risk management program effectively across $100 million in commodities as part of the overall $200 million spend area. Develop financial forecasts, thorough market analysis, market risk strategies, budgets and reporting.

Oversee requests for proposals & quotes, evaluating benefits and financial analysis, create and author contracts, and negotiate terms for Feed Ingredients and other areas as required.

Provide purchasing support for ordering and budgeting for internal and external feed facilities. Support in the budgeting, planning, financial justification and acquisition of various products required for our feed mills and other feed ingredient facilities. Support business units as needed.

Support Commodities VP in the preparation and tracking of sourcing objectives, support special projects, and development of new initiatives, cross-functional team building, monitoring and development of standardized policies and procedures.

Research regulatory requirements, supply or contract issues, and make necessary improvements ensuring Foster Farms remains in compliance and at best advantage.

Oversee the evaluation and selection of suppliers. Establish performance guarantees for customer protection based on specifications; implement Supplier Management tools for buy spaces.

Supervise and manage 2 direct reports. Develop and ensure company and department policy compliance with respect to role responsibilities.

Additional Functions:

Special Projects as needed including reports RFP, RFQ’s and tasks in support of our total feed and nutrition areas.

May back up Grain Merchandizing team during vacations and time offs.

Individual will be a leader within the Commodities Sourcing Department and will be expected to drive department performance, cost savings, vendor consolidation and growth

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or equivalent required, MBA or Masters in Ag Econ preferred.

Must have five-seven years work experience in Sourcing with both material management and risk management of Commodities preferably feed ingredients, California experience a plus

Strong analytical skills, with highly proficient use of Excel

Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications: word processing, presentation, data base management

Experience in Creating Service and Supply Contracts.

Experience in procurement system operation, procedures and SAP

Demonstrated leadership and problem solving skills

Strong communication abilities, capable of simplifying complex data

Excellent Interpersonal and negotiating skills.

Strong accounting and some tax knowledge

Reports to VP of Commodities

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.