Sodexo began operations in Australia in 1982 and now provides on-site services at over 300 diverse locations throughout Australia. Today we have over 5,000 employees in Australia who are part of the global Sodexo team of 425, 000.

Sodexo designs, manages and delivers innovative integrated solutions that not only improve the way our clients businesses run on a daily basis, but enhance Quality of Life for our clients, consumers and employees.

Sodexo are currently searching for a new Head of Procurement – Food & Beverage to join our Supply Management team. Reporting into the Supply Management Director, this full-time role would lead the Food & Beverage direction for Sodexo Australia across every category within the portfolio, deploying sourcing strategies that realise the targets of: Quality, Cost, Delivery & CSR.

This role will see you responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Provide ‘off-shelf’ alternatives that form a differentiating offering, that enables an accurate and timely response to tenders
• Management of the source to contract process in the development of a procurement register that details all the engagements the team is undertaking and the relative status of all contracts.
• Manage contracts to ensure achievement of cost, quality and delivery requirements.
• Undertake detailed analysis upon pricing positions provided by suppliers to ensure variations are clearly understood and impacts acted upon. 
• Maintaining an accurate food sourcing cost model across all categories.
• Adhere to all process compliance requirements, ensuring all steps in the relative process are completed as defined.
• Conduct checks (in accordance to overall process validation activities) to ensure there are no deviations within the process compliance and potential risks identified.
• Provide authentic, honest and focused direction for the food sourcing team to ensure alignment and efficiency of the tasks to be completed

To be successful in this role you will require the following:

• Proven experience within a similar leadership role and minimum of 10 years working within a Procurement and/or Supply Management function
• Demonstrated experience of leading a range of food sourcing categories, with non-food categories being ideal.
• Ideally a Post-Graduate Degree in Business with a major in Supply Chain Management or Procurement
• Well developed skills to support the effective completion of the source to contract process
• Customer focused with excellent influencing and negotiation skills teamed with the ability to understand key stakeholder requirements and build strong relationships.
• Ability to communicate at all levels with good written, verbal and reporting skills.
• Ability to resolve issues with a sense of urgency
• Excellent time management and organizational skills including a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Self-motivated, self-confident, honest and flexible, professional work ethic

What’s next?

Sodexo offers a competitive salary package along with great employee benefits and a recognition program.

If this sounds like the right job for you, please apply via the link for a 5 minutes online applications.