Associate Category Manager, Grocery

S'more about the team: We are looking for an Associate Category Manager, Grocery who will help us build out our vendor network and continuously improve our end-to-end sourcing process. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing (Grocery), you will contribute to and execute our strategic roadmap, manage vendor relationships, support negotiations, launch new ingredients, and streamline internal procurement processes. As part of the Procurement team, you will play a key role in improving our costs, ingredient quality, supply chain reliability, and product innovation - helping us deliver the best possible value to our customers. Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for: Support development and execution of our sourcing strategy for the category, driving improvements and supply chain performance in: Cost: consistently optimize our cost base Quality: identify and reduce quality errors Reliability: ensure supply availability and proactively mitigate risk in the supply chain Customer offering: drive product innovation and create a unique competitive advantage Leverage large internal datasets and industry benchmarks to report on team progress against objectives, identify and prioritize new opportunities, and drive continuous improvement Support vendor negotiations and selection process, and lead any vendor onboarding/ offboarding as required Lead projects that drive innovative and sustainable packaging solutions Manage new and existing vendor relationships, manage