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 packaging and ingredient inputs.

- 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.• Work closely with the FSQA, R&D & Operations teams to ensure flour vendors are meeting company needs in areas of quality, product development & delivery performance.• Work closely with Finance & Accounting teams to ensure accurate reporting and to address any payments issues.• Work with Sustainability team to research and define opportunity areas for wheat and flour origination.

• 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 possible.• 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.• Provide forecasts and pricing projects for Finance and Sales teams for budgeting and pricing purposes.

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• 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.• Understand the different types of products within a commodity class to be able to provide insight into relative pricing and functional characteristics.

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.• Member of Leadership Team charged with growing business to exceed $10MM EBITDA.• Manage business development team comprised of employees in the U.S. & Mexico.

Mba, Ag-Business

Ba, Economics, International Studies