About Us

Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches food suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.

Primary Responsibility :

Improve Americold’s competitive advantage by leading and managing assigned spend categories and preferred Supplier Relationships through building partnerships with the Strategic Sourcing Director, Vice President Distribution Support ANZ, Procurement, Facility Services, Engineering, Finance and Operational Business Units to conduct opportunity assessments, execute sourcing projects, negotiate contracts, manage spend categories and report metrics.

What You’ll Do :

• Support of strategic category business plans
• Analyze current spend categories and identify savings opportunities
• Develop and Manage Vendor relationships and optimize supply base
• Support Americold’s business units to implement and maintain profitable and effective sourcing programs
• Recommend, Educate and train sourcing and procurement processes and policies with business processes and business unit associates
• Reporting Sourcing and Category Management metrics and scorecards

Evaluate vendor performance for profitability and service level standards
• Perform market research to identify best available and relevant products and services to enhance Americolds market advantage
• Maintain Americold industry knowledge
• Incorporating best practices of the time into Americold’s business
• Provide support for the Vice President Distribution Support ANZ
• Perform other duties as required.

What Experience and Education You Need :

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of business-related work experience preferred.
• 2+ years of work experience in Procurement or Category management or related environment
• Subject-matter expert in relative industries such as distribution, retail, warehousing , supply chain or logistics preferred
• Category experience in MHE or indirect supplies and services preferred
• Experience in vendor negotiations
• General knowledge or experience with E-Procurement systems knowledge required (such as Ariba, GeP, etc).
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications with intermediate to advanced skill level in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel an average 25% of the time

What Could Set You Apart :

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to communicate with all levels of the business.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Acts with a flexible, team and goal-oriented approach
• Excellent customer service skills
• Demonstrated analytical capabilities
• Demonstrates uncompromising level of integrity and code of ethics
• Must be highly organized and demonstrate a high sense of urgency
• Ability to listen and negotiate through conflicting demands

Physical Requirements :

• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
• May require travel by automobile and airplane up for business
• May require a visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing
• May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 10 kg
• Requires the use of various electronic tools
• Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes
• Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management

Work Environment :

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What We Offer :

Our associates know the answer to the question What’s in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.