Aspire Bakeries

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

As a Procurement Analyst, Indirects, you will play a critical role in streamlining our non-Bill of Material (Indirect Procurement) sourcing data and provide excellent customer service to our Bakeries and internal department. This position requires strong attention to detail, organization, and communication and Excel skills to manage our SAP ECC and SRM database, Ariba Contracts, Ariba RFX, Ariba Marketplace to resolve issues, collaborate cross-functionally and run RFx’s. If you enjoy data analytics, engaging Vendors and relationship-building, this is an exciting opportunity to optimize our sourcing processes and create seamless experiences for our internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

SAP and Ariba Database Administration

• Apply knowledge and direction of SAP and Ariba work processes to manage database and RFX administration, manage Vendor administration and support conflict resolution, Vendor registration, Contracts and other Indirect Procurement support for Services and Capex for the Bakeries to ensure supply.
• Manage a variety of routine and non-routine daily contacts with multiple Vendors, Bakeries, AccountsPayable, IT, Engineering and others as needed to obtain information necessary to support using bakeries for their requirements. This information includes finding sources of supply, prices and timing requirements of availability.

Projects

• Support sourcing activities, projects, inquiries, basic negotiations, supplier follow-up, etc. as assigned and directed by Managers.
• Direct involvement with procurements software tools, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, IT and HR functions to requested deliverables.

Sourcing

• Supports with analysis and data entry for various procurement categories.
• Develop relationships with the Bakery contacts to support business needs and predict changes and updates needed for seamless ERP
• Assists with the administration of RFP / RFQ / RFI.
• Supports bakery with supply challenges.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Finance or Accounting preferred.
• Proficient in English (written and verbal).
• Superior critical thinking skills and ability to structure analyses to solve poorly defined problems.
• Solid communication, problem-solving, and research abilities are necessary.
• Solid Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Prior experience with SAP and Ariba are preferred.
• Central Time Zone 8AM to 5PM - Hybrid in office 3 days per week. (LA Time 6AM to 3PM)

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.