Value Chain: Build and maintain a robust and transparent food supply chain including but not limited to the coordination with suppliers to ensure adequate supply, the maintenance of quality specifications and the establishment of theoretical pricing on all items. Appropriate inventory must be secured from production into distribution.
Product: Manage all supply side aspects of our wholesale food items. This includes our current programs as well as new products. Categories to be maintained currently include grocery, dairy, and equipment & supplies.
Food Safety: Coordinate with our Food Safety team to provide any valid vendor information pertaining to the function of making our food safe to serve to our guests.
Sustainability: Advocate for sourcing related decisions that further our commitment to building a new food system, which includes designing a radically transparent supply chain.
Services: Manage the supply side of all supportive national services including but not limited to linens, chemicals, and knife sharpening.
Three years of Supply Chain management including relationship management with suppliers and distributors, sourcing new products and suppliers, spec creation, price and service negotiation, and inventory management.
Involvement in building an ingredient innovation pipeline: advocacy for innovative and sustainable ingredients, creation of ingredient specifications, maintenance of all vendor related data and certifications, strong vendor relationship development, and independently solving problems as they arise.
Ownership of a thorough network of national ingredient sources who are committed to both sustainability and food safety.
Multiple examples of RFP involvement that went beyond selecting the vendor partner for quantity, quality, and price.
REQUIRED TRAIT – Commitment to building a more sustainable food system.