Procurement Specialist - Soft Commodities - Cocoa & Chocolate
The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Procurement Specialist - Soft Commodities - Cocoa & Chocolate
The role involves supporting the development and execution of sourcing strategies for European Cocoa & Chocolate at the world's largest ice cream company. The Procurement Specialist will manage supplier contracts, negotiations, and commodity price risk, while driving sustainability and innovation initiatives. Candidates need a bachelor's degree, over 3 years of procurement experience, and strong analytical and communication skills.
Procurement Specialist - Soft Commodities - Cocoa & Chocolate
The role involves supporting the development and execution of sourcing strategies for European Cocoa & Chocolate at the world's largest ice cream company. The Procurement Specialist will manage supplier contracts, negotiations, and commodity price risk, while driving sustainability and innovation initiatives. Candidates need a bachelor's degree, over 3 years of procurement experience, and strong analytical and communication skills.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Support in development and execution of the portfolio strategy in line with both short term and long-term business objectives
- Lead and contribute to portfolio initiatives to unlock gross margin and operational efficiency
- Lead & support contract negotiations, including RFQ processes, e-tenders, data management and in-depth analysis of supplier submissions
- Build and manage a forward-looking savings and cash pipeline through market intelligence, strategic levers and price risk management principles
- Excellent contract life cycle management and reporting, ensuring 100% coverage of contracts on time in full
- Ensure compliance with Supplier Quality and Responsible Sourcing policies
- Identify and mitigate sourcing risks with cross functional team
- Partner with Commodity Risk Management to define and deploy optimal hedging strategies
- Collaborate with Finance and Strategy & Insight teams to deliver accurate price forecasts, market analysis, and budgeting inputs
- Integrate local market intelligence into contracting cover strategies and supplier flows
- Ensure full hedge compliance across categories and supplier contracts
- Enable innovation through close collaboration with R&D, leveraging supplier intelligence, capacity insights, and market trends
- Support the development and execution of partnerships and projects required to meet sustainability targets
- Lead all reporting and monitoring requirements for Cocoa sustainability programs and initiatives