Objective

This position is responsible for setting the strategic procurement path for the organization by ensuring processes and procedures to efficiently and cost effectively purchase the goods needed across the entire organization

Essential Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Procurement Managers and Procurement Analysts
• Execute the Monster Brewing Company’s leadership team’s vision and ensure procurement is aligned with their direction
• Institute policies and procedures for collecting and reporting key metrics that will reduce our overall expenses while increasing productivity
• Work directly with the Monster Energy procurement team to align strategies and goals
• Establish purchasing policies and ensure compliance across the network of breweries and co-packers
• Perform cost analysis and set appropriate benchmarks.
• Ensure supply chains are stable and performing well
• Develop new supply sources where vendors are inadequate
• Establishes account/credit and terms
• Approve the ordering of necessary goods and services
• Negotiates best vendor terms and pricing for business necessities
• Continually evaluate offers from suppliers
• Maintain updated records of purchased products, delivery information and invoices
• Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers and client
• Complies with safety and corporate guidelines on business ethics

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other related duties as required or assigned.

  Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of industry trends and the environment 
• Knowledge of purchasing and vendor practices
• Skill in effective communication and teamwork
• Skill in negotiation and networking
• Skill in responsible decision making
• Skill in analyzing data
• Skill in collaboration 
• Skill in leadership
• Skill in multi-tasking 
• Project driven
• Ability to prepare executive level summaries and recommendations
• Ability to demonstrate reliability
• Proficiency in SAP, Microsoft Office, especially Power Point and Excel

Physical & Mental Requirements

Must have the physical and mental strength and endurance to be able to perform duties, in at times extreme environments, as well as the ability to handle stressors of the position in operational and administrative situations. Required to frequently lift and move 10-40 pounds. Expected to stand, sit, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, bend, talk, hear, taste, smell, see, and operate objects, tools, and controls.

Position Snap Shot

Employment Type:   Full-Time

Job Type:   Exempt

Pay Type:   Salary, $95,000+ (Depending on Experience)

Supervisor:  SR Vice President of Brewery Operations

Manages Others:  Yes 

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree Required

Minimum Certification: N/A 

Minimum Experience: 8-10 Years

Age Requirement: 21 years or older

Required Travel: Less than 10%

Driving Requirements: No

Tools & Equipment Used: Standard Office Equipment

Diversity Statement:

Monster Brewing Company values a diverse and inclusive workplace and believes that a career in craft beer should be accessible to all people. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal opportunities to individuals of every race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

The employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position as a result of evolving business needs.