Junior Sourcing Manager

**The role**: The Junior Sourcing Manager is responsible for providing the bridge between product and procurement teams managing the communications between local and international stakeholders. The role sits in local/regional teams and owns the process from new ingredient requests through onboarding. He/she will effectively manage the sourcing of new ingredients into their local market to drive innovation and improve our customer experience. Working in collaboration with the Category Managers, you will be responsible for identifying existing cross-market sourcing opportunities to onboard NID SKUs into the portfolio more efficiently. You will work closely with the local NID Manager/Ingredient Specialist, Culinary, FSQA and Supply Chain Operations (SCO) teams in your market to facilitate the onboarding of NID SKUs in the portfolio and act as the gatekeeper for all requests ensuring that they don't add additional complexity to the operation. The role, based in Paris, will report into the Intl Team Lead Sourcing & SKU Management, with a dotted line into the local Head of Procurement and Supply Chain with regular interactions with international stakeholders and peer SKU managers in other HelloFresh markets. Above all, we are looking for people who will **make HelloFresh better**. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences So even if you don't "tick all the boxes" but think you'd thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you. **What you'll do**: - Leads the project management for new ingredient requests between culinary, product, and procurement teams - Owns workflow for new ingredient requests, once handed over from product operations them and acts as gatekeeper responsible for ensuring strict adherence to the standardized process ultimately managing the progression and or rejection of all new ingredient requests - Aligning with the local NID/Ingredient Specialist to ensure all sourcing tasks are completed on time, in line with the critical path. Gatekeeper for all NID requests, ensuring only SKUs that pass Gate 2 (feasibility) progress to Culinary SKU testing - Reviews all new ingredient requisition proposals in market for completeness before connecting with local suppliers or handing over to category managers for sourcing/tender if multiple markets are involved - Manages stakeholder engagement and communications between local and international to ensure NID approach consistent with other markets - Coordinates new developments with category managers, sensory testing mgmt, culinary, FSQA and other markets - Facilitates speedy SKU onboarding, but also ensures new SKUs creation is coordinated across markets, which includes a review of potential suitable alternative SKUs already available in another markets'/global portfolio - Support SKU improvement initiatives with culinary and quality teams to tweak specifications or formulations that yield improved ingredient performance **What you'll bring**: - Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, and self-management skills with a strong focus on teamwork. - Proficient in English and native French, customer-oriented, and able to interact with business leaders and vendors at a senior level. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with a focus on continuous process improvement. - Ability to lead and influence business partners, team members, and other stakeholders, present ideas effectively, and facilitate discussion with multiple inputs. - Aptitude for establishing and sustaining trusting relationships amongst stakeholders across the organization in local and international tams - Effectively manage timelines and myriad stakeholders' expectations while delivering consistent and valuable results - Preferably a Business/Engineering/Supply Chain degree with 1-2 years of experience in procurement and/or product/portfolio management **What we offer**: - Competitive compensation and plenty of room for personal growth - A vibrant & international environment with a great culture & DNA - Delicious reductions on our HelloFresh boxes - A guaranteed steep learning curve & boost for your career - A passionate, proactive and dynamic French team - Employees perks (Mutuelle Alan Blue, reductions on transport, sports and yoga classes, training budget) **Are you up for the challenge?**: