Sourcing - Intern

The role

The Sourcing Manager is responsible for providing the bridge between product and procurement teams managing the communications between local and international stakeholders. The role sits in local/regional teams and owns the process from new ingredient requests through onboarding. He/she will effectively manage the sourcing of new ingredients into their local market to drive innovation and improve our customer experience. Working in collaboration with the Category Managers, you will be responsible for identifying existing cross-market sourcing opportunities to onboard NID SKUs into the portfolio more efficiently. You will work closely with the local NID Manager/Ingredient Specialist, Culinary, FSQA and Supply Chain Operations (SCO) teams in your market to facilitate the onboarding of NID SKUs in the portfolio and act as the gatekeeper for all requests ensuring that they don’t add additional complexity to the operation.

The role, based in London, will report into the Intl Team Lead Sourcing & SKU Management, with a dotted line into the local Head of Procurement and Supply Chain with regular interactions with international stakeholders and peer SKU managers in other HelloFresh markets.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you’ll do

• Leads the project management for new ingredient requests between culinary, product, and procurement teams
• Owns workflow for new ingredient requests, once handed over from product operations them and acts as gatekeeper responsible for ensuring strict adherence to the standardized process ultimately managing the progression and or rejection of all new ingredient requests
• Aligning with the local NID/Ingredient Specialist to ensure all sourcing tasks are completed on time, in line with the critical path. Gatekeeper for all NID requests, ensuring only SKUs that pass Gate 2 (feasibility) progress to Culinary SKU testing
• Reviews all new ingredient requisition proposals in market for completeness before connecting with local suppliers or handing over to category managers for sourcing/tender if multiple markets are involved
• Manages stakeholder engagement and communications between local and international to ensure NID approach consistent with other markets
• Coordinates new developments with category managers, sensory testing mgmt, culinary, FSQA and other markets
• Facilitates speedy SKU onboarding, but also ensures new SKUs creation is coordinated across markets, which includes a review of potential suitable alternative SKUs already available in another markets’/global portfolio 
• Support SKU improvement initiatives with culinary and quality teams to tweak specifications or formulations that yield improved ingredient performance

 

What you’ll bring

• Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, and self-management skills with a strong focus on teamwork.
• Proficient in English, customer-oriented, and able to interact with business leaders and vendors at a senior level.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with a focus on continuous process improvement.
• Ability to lead and influence business partners, team members, and other stakeholders, present ideas effectively, and facilitate discussion with multiple inputs.
• Aptitude for establishing and sustaining trusting relationships amongst stakeholders across the organization in local and international tams
• Effectively manage timelines and myriad stakeholders’ expectations while delivering consistent and valuable results
• Preferably a Business/Engineering/Supply Chain degree with 1-2 years of experience in procurement and/or product/portfolio management

What we offer

● 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
● Company pension scheme
● Gym membership
● Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
● Electric vehicle scheme
● Bippit account - financial support
● Free professional development and coaching memberships
● Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
● Dog friendly office! (London site only)
● If in the office, enjoy a free breakfast every day
● Eye care scheme
● Cycle to work scheme
● Group Life Assurance

Location: The HelloFresh Farm, 60 Worship Street, EC2A 2EZ, London 

Work Schedule: Hybrid working - 50/50 remote working. We would require you work 2 days in the office per week.
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Next steps: Your application will be reviewed and if successful, a member of the Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch within 2 weeks.

You are required to cooperate with HelloFresh in all health and safety matters. You are responsible for ensuring you take reasonable care of your own health, and safety as well as others who may be affected by the work activities you undertake. You must report incidents immediately and actively raise health and safety-related concerns to your Line Manager.

If you are currently a HelloFresh employee, please make sure you have discussed your application with your Line Manager.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Up to 20% of time

Are you up for the challenge?

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days. 

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Last updated on Aug 28, 2024