The Company
Founded in 1986 by Terry and Rose Ann Hall, California Custom Fruits & Flavors (CCFF) is a leading developer and manufacturer of custom-formulated specialty ingredients and flavors. CCFF delivers tailored solutions to a diverse group of customers, retailers, and co-manufacturers across numerous food products and channels. With world-class facilities in California and Indiana, CCFF has served as a leading partner and innovator of industry-leading flavors and formulations for nearly four decades.
CCFF is at an inflection point in their growth journey. As a family run business for 30 years, CCFF has built their reputation on superior product quality and customer service and has longstanding relationships with blue-chip and high-growth brands, retailers, and co-manufacturers.
In March of 2024, Peak Rock Capital acquired CCFF with a plan to expand the organization both through organic investments and strategic acquisitions. In the last year, CCFF has expanded its leadership team to position the business for scale, with a plan to double the size of the business in the next 2-4 years.
The Role
To support their continued growth, CCFF is seeking to hire a Procurement Manager to professionalize and expand their strategic sourcing function. The Procurement Manager will play an essential role in augmenting and standardizing the supply base, overseeing suppliers, managing contracts, and building a high-performing strategic sourcing function.
Experience & Requirements
• At least five years of sourcing experience in the procurement function
• Mastery of modern strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies for direct categories
•Expertise in negotiations and contracting: including e-sourcing, should-cost models, leveraged agreements, multi-year contracts, complex terms and conditions, performance incentives, and management of corporate risk
•Expertise leading and extracting measurable value from design-for-manufacture and value engineering initiatives
•A distinctive track record of year-over-year delivery of value and implemented savings on a TCO basis
•Strong financial, quantitative, and analytical skills; embraces fact?based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling
•Strong project management skills, including stakeholder, timeline, and meeting management skills
•Able to manage internal customers; skilled at institutionalizing stakeholder communications for input and alignment
•Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external audiences
•Able to connect with team members at all levels of the organization, i.e., plant operations, management, and executives
•A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual
