Wholesale Partnerships Manager - Contract Employee

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Feeding America
Chicago, Illinois

Position Description

Develop, formalize, and rollout national wholesale partnerships to leverage the buying power, efficiency, and philanthropic resources of Feeding America’s largest supporters in the wholesale/retail food industry.  Use Feeding America’s network scale and position as the leading hunger relief organization in the country to lower food bank food costs while creating value for supplier partners.  Assist the VP of Supply Chain and COO with procurement strategy development, achieving board outcomes, and exploring new opportunities to partner with food and non-food industry leaders.

Job Responsibilities

• Build strategic relationships within the food industry and align member food banks to leverage collective strengths and abilities for securing additional products at lowest possible costs; reinforce Feeding America’s status as a preferred recipient of available donations, goods, and services.
• Manage Feeding America’s Wholesale Partnership Program.
• Identify, develop, and formalize scalable food purchasing partnerships with major national wholesale/retail food companies.
• Co-develop, with partner corporate staff, program rollout plans for Feeding America food banks with partner distribution centers.
• Execute rollout plans by promoting the program and directly coordinating with food bank and partner corporate and distribution center staff.
• Extend the program into local communities by working closely with partners to raise awareness of hunger in America and promote the significant contribution of our partners in combating hunger.
• Increase the effectiveness of the Feeding America Grocery Program by leveraging wholesale partnerships to get lowest possible manufacturer direct prices on high volume grocery products.
• Direct the development and promotion of training tools that assist members in working with wholesale and grocery partners.
• Build and maintain relationships with key trade associations.  Serve as department point person for retail/wholesale partners.
• Identify opportunities for Feeding America to enhance the effectiveness of our partnerships via strategic use of National resources such as technology, logistics capabilities, knowledge sharing, training, etc.
• Contribute to a team based, continuous improvement oriented work environment that is focused on providing legendary customer service to our member food banks.
• Define, set, track, and report on measurable departmental goals aligned with board outcomes and supporting strategies.

Application Qualifications

• BA/BS required.
• MBA or other relevant graduate education or equivalent experience preferred.
• 5 years experience including 2 years in management with a working functional knowledge of procurement, distribution, logistics, and/or supply chain management (CPG or retail food industry preferred).
• Demonstrated project leadership capability and credentials.
• Rigorous process management, planning and organizational skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple organizations and functions to achieve joint goals.
• Committed to organizational mission of ending hunger.

Deadline

Open

How to Apply

Application Contact

Human Resources

35 East Wacker Drive

Suite 2000

Chicago, IL  60601

jobopenings@feedingamerica.org

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