Teams at Illes Foods

Manage strategic procurement, sourcing, supplier relationships, material planning, negotiations, and supply continuity for food manufacturing raw materials. Lead RFPs, supplier quality initiatives, cost optimization, vendor rationalization, and 3PL freight reviews. Partner with R&D, Quality, Finance, Operations, and Materials Handling on new product development, risk mitigation, forecasting, purchase orders, and procurement data within Product Vision.

Leads procurement analytics, financial modeling, forecasting, dashboards, supplier performance reporting, material planning, inventory optimization, contract tracking, vendor and SKU rationalization, and procurement master-data management. Partners with Sales and cross-functional teams on supply planning, shortages, new business, supplier negotiations, and floor-stock agreements. Supports AI and digital-tool implementations through user acceptance testing and provides operational support for purchase orders and procurement processes.