We’re not in the wing business. We’re in the flavor business. It’s been our mission to Serve the World Flavor since we first opened in 1994, and we’re just getting started. 1997 saw the opening of our first brand partner operated Wingstop location, and by 2002 we had served the world one billion wings. It’s flavor that defines us and has made Wingstop one of the fastest growing brands in the restaurant industry.
Above all else – our success is largely due to our people and our core values, or what we call The Wingstop Way of being entrepreneurial, service-minded, fun and authentic. We believe having a strong people foundation centered on these collective values creates a crave-worthy culture and talented team, as well as ensures our brand is poised for accelerated growth. We all win together.
YOUR IMPACT
Lead with us as a member of the Global Supply Chain Procurement Team by driving efficiency, effectiveness and continuous improvement in the Global Foods procurement process. While you are at it, you’ll be building your network and expertise in a thriving environment of professional development and teamwork. And together we’ll shape a stronger future for Wingstop and your career.
What You’ll Do
In your role as a Director Supply Chain of Global Categories at Wingstop, you will be part of our success by:
Manage Supply for a spend of approximately $500+ million spanning Poultry distributed within the Wingstop Restaurant system. Accountable to meet organizational financial goals, including cost savings, purchase price variance and market advantage targets set annually. Engage internal business partners to positively influence product development or product changes based on best practice procurement processes, and leading-edge supply solutions achieved through strategic supplier relationships. Must possess strong financial analysis skills and are responsible for industry assessments, financial analysis, negotiating contracts and cost modeling. Maintain vigorous and in depth understanding of commodity markets for assigned categories. Identify new supply solutions/services required for new products or product changes not on contract, rationalizing requirements or items, and identify on-contract alternative or replacement to satisfy requirements; Identify new supplier entrants, offerings and leverage-ability for Wingstop sustainable advantage.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Category Management
Internal Demand Analysis - Category planning and value analysis
Industry/Competitor Analysis-Benchmarking, Financial Metrics Analysis, and develops contingency plans to address potential impacts of events within industry
Supply Market Analysis - multiple subcategories spread across restaurants, and finished products
Continuous Improvement -Using Lean principles and identifying improvement opportunities by analyzing Total Cost of Ownership
Utilize exchange traded futures and options through the various Boards of Trade as well as through suppliers
Commodity Buying utilizing category strategy, risk management tools while actively monitoring market and historical information to support buying decisions
Business alignment and scenario planning of hedge coverage - aligns coverage with pricing horizon
Monitor market fundamentals of supply/demand factors & technical analysis to adjust or renew strategies required to maintain financial reporting integrity
Supplier Management, Integration, & Business Alignment
Innovation-take a lead role in the discovery, implementation, execution, and tracking of innovations and cost savings projects within the Wingstop system as well as at the suppliers’ facilities utilizing a continuous improvement process
Take lead role to support, and manage on-going supplier management strategy, including business reviews, scorecard development with relevant KPIs, benchmarking, and market condition updates in partnership with business unit leaders to drive marketplace growth
Address and resolve issues related to material quality, price, service, and delivery
Responsible for the implementation and coordination of supplier transitions with cross-functional teams and matrix resources tied to strategic sourcing activities (including overseeing on-line qualification trials, sample testing, and distribution testing)
Who You Are
A leader within the Supply Chain Team driving assigned team management, efficiency, effectiveness, and continuous improvement in the supply chain and procurement process. While you are at it, you are building your network and expertise in a thriving environment of professional development and teamwork. You are the Ideal Team Player shaping a stronger future for our company, your career and espousing our Wingstop Values as follows:
Humble
Ongoing learner; exhibits insatiable curiosity and an interest in self-improvement.
Hungry
Acts to surpass goals, seizing opportunities to push the envelope.
Sets continually higher goals that are ambitious but realistic for self and team, geared to organizational objectives.
Smart
Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach, where both act as true peers and decisions are shared.
Spends time identifying all stakeholders necessary and meets or connects with all of them, neglecting no one to shape a collective consensus.
Identifies opportunities to build relationships that will help others achieve their objectives and reaches out to those people or new people.
Service-minded
Ensures Supply Chain delivers valued service to the business, quality goods and services on-time and at competitive costs while adhering to standard purchasing practices.
Identify and implement process improvement projects designed to improve delivery performance, lead time, logistics optimization, operational efficiency, reliability and profitability.
Entrepreneurial
Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure alignment and key strategic objectives are met for company goals.
Focuses on new business opportunities that enable business development targets to be exceeded.
Authentic
Promote and maintain the good name of Wingstop Restaurants while conducting business in an ethical and professional manner to ensure growth of the chain in the future.
Fun
Ability to form strong working relationships with Wingstop team members, supplier partners and the brand partner community.
Engage and energize a crew of over 180 enthusiastic team members supporting more than 270 franchise groups and 1500+ restaurants through a culture of empowerment and inclusion from the Global support Center based in north Dallas.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Mgmt., Business, Economics or related field, MBA preferred
5 to 8 years’ experience in procurement, trading, strategic sourcing or related field
Systems proficiency with ArrowStream, Power BI, and intermediate technical skills in Microsoft Applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
Ability to develop, analyze and negotiate business agreements
A role at a major agricultural trading & processing firm or a CPG food company in purchasing
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and communicate at a high level across multiple functions
Demonstrates leadership experience in one or more of the following areas: Procurement, Cash & Futures agricultural markets, Supply Chain, Operations, or Finance
This position requires that candidates have food procurement/agricultural commodity experience
This Director will work closely with suppliers to improve cost, quality, and service key performance measures as well as work with the Supply Chain and Marketing teams to execute product improvement and growth initiatives
Should show a strong understanding of operational aspects of the company from raw materials through delivery to the customer
Working knowledge of sourcing and hedging various USDA, and CPG commodities such as protein, and ingredients
Lean manufacturing principles and the effective implementation continuous improvement techniques
Job requires travel time of approximately 10%
Wingstop provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Restaurants
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