Create a supply management strategy for the company and to build and manage a team. The selected candidate will report directly to plant manager and will develop a plan that integrates the needs of the company to ensure compliance with the requirements of customer shipments defining what actions are required in storage areas, exits, planning production and supply of production materials, including treatment of information relating to these areas.

Key responsibilities:
- Sets performance objectives to assigned suppliers (quality improvement, on-time delivery, lead-time reduction, cost reduction). Defines baseline, improvement targets and monitors progress through a regularly updated supplier scorecard.
- Prepares and leads quarterly management reviews (scorecards with main performance indicators, strategic positioning evaluation, 3-year business perspectives, and strategic product/market developments).
- Identifies and selects project teams for supplier development (involving Operations, Manufacturing, Sustaining and Quality) and seeks allocation of resources as appropriate.
- Ensures that that supplier capacity is aligned with the demand.
- Reviews and consolidates internal demand and arbitrates priorities.
- Prepares and manages negotiations in accordance with sourcing strategy. Ensures negotiated agreements are properly executed and complied with.
- Reports deviations to plan and takes appropriate actions to correct them.
- Identifies opportunities and implements action plans to continually reduce waste.

We are looking for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in supply Chain, engineering, Manufacturing or Business with a minimum experience of seven years in Supply Chain in a food industry.
Fluency in Spanish and English is a must, fluency in French is desirable.
As the Key User of the area the candidate will have proven experience in SAP R3.