John Larkin Email & Phone Number

Hayward, California, US

- Track, recommend and execute purchasing of key ingredient and packing items for Sugar Bowl Bakery. Primary categories include dairy, egg, grain, oilseed, plastic and corrugate based inputs.- Manage vendor relationships for key ingredient and packaging items.- Analyze and report key financial metrics including forecasting, budgeting and PPV for key.

- Development and implementation of regional sales strategy for conventional & organic flour.- Large, medium & small customer account management. - New customer prospecting and development. - Organic flour product line management including strategy, plannining and sales. - Research and provide market updates and guidance for customers.

Schlieren, Zurich, CH

• Lead Procurement team in supporting ARZYTA sales efforts with key customers such as Subway, McDonald’s, Tim Horton’s and Dunkin Donuts. Tasks include commodity market updates, insights and coverage recommendations.
• Lead cross functional ‘Flour Council’ who’s purpose is to address issues and opportunities related to quality, performance, FSQA, MRP, sustainability and/or financial reporting.
• Member of Procurement Leadership Team responsible for defining priorities, goals and challenges for the division.
• Manage procurement team responsible for flour and other grains representing $250 million in annual spend.
• Serve as Procurement representative on cross functional teams working on wide range of projects including acquisitions, plant consolidations, MRP integration, ingredient specification consolidation and others.

Schlieren, Zurich, CH

• Lead flour category RFP for all major flour items across 21 bakeries resulting in annual savings of over $2 million in vendor processing and transportation pricing.
• Develop, lead and implement cost savings initiatives worth over $3 million through ingredient specifications changes, wheat/flour blend adjustments and the use of options contracts.
• Provide regular financial reporting information and analysis including PPV, YTD savings and ingredient costing.
• Responsible for development, submission and updating of annual flour budget.
• Act as consultant for our Brazilian purchasing team in their flour purchasing and risk management programs.

Schlieren, Zurich, CH

• ARYZTA, LLC. March, 2012 - PresentSenior Procurement Manager, Commodities
• Define, present & execute component flour purchases totaling $100 million per year.
• Manage flour spend of $220 million including non-pass through & pass through customers including position tracking, reporting & reconciling.
• Develop, propose and implement risk management program for use across non-pass through flour purchases.
• Provide regular commodity market updates, insights and coverage recommendations to key customers.
• Manage Procurement team member in charge of grain based ingredients spend.

• Manage & track flour and other grain based ingredients for branded, food service and co-pack uses representing a total spend of $135 million dollars annually.
• Recommend and execute purchasing decisions for flour, oats, vital wheat gluten and other ingredients on behalf of Otis Spunkmeyer and for other Subway co-packers.
• Maximize & capture cost savings opportunities for flour purchases by working with R&D, suppliers and co-pack customers to adjust flour blends based on each year’s crop to obtain the desired quality at the least cost.
• Develop and manage contract utilization tool to track component contracting, contract balances, and actual monthly flour costs based on finished goods production.
• Address and resolve product quality issues by working with production, QA and suppliers while obtaining fair compensation for the costs incurred as a result of the problems.
• Work with SAP to address and resolve invoice, P.O. and other contracting and accounting functions.

US

• Research and manage key commodities for Safeway including sugar, vegetable oils, corn (sweeteners), coffee, aluminum, resins, produce, meats & other miscellaneous items.
• Coordinate commodity related purchases totaling up to $125 million dollars per year with Safeway colleagues from the plant, co-packer, deli, bakery & refrigerated/frozen purchasing groups.
• Consulted and assisted with purchasing and category teams in negotiations with suppliers such as Con-Agra, PepsiCo, Ralcorp, Barrel of Fun, Distant Lands Coffee, Cargill, & Amalgamated Sugar.
• Track and report commodity positions to senior level executives.
• Prepare and present commodity outlook forecasts for a variety of personnel including category management teams, purchasing groups and senior level executives.
• Develop and execute category commodity purchasing strategies based on the competitive environment, margin targets, & market conditions.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Identify, pursue and execute business growth and development opportunities with suppliers (Miller, Grupo Modelo, Yuengling) and customers (Nestle-Purina, Campbell’s etc.)
• Negotiate co-product management contracts with suppliers such as Miller, Coors, and Boston Beer representing $300K to $14MM in gross revenues each.
• Determine pricing strategy for brewers’ yeast sales to customers such as Iams and Pfizer.
• Develop and implement sales strategies that address risks associated with price volatility & supply chain management
• Explore, identify and quantify value creation opportunities through further processing of co-product streams such as yeast drying, fiber separation, &/or case goods destruction.
• Identify, prepare and present capital investment proposals that meet or exceed corporate ROI targets.

Mba, Ag-Business

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