Supply Chain Manager

America's Food Court is seeking a highly skilled and results-driven Supply Chain Manager to lead procurement, inventory planning, vendor management, logistics, and overall supply chain operations for its expanding portfolio of restaurant brands across the United States. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing supply chains within multi-unit restaurant organizations and possess expert knowledge of restaurant ERP, inventory management, procurement, and back-office systems such as xtraCHEF, Restaurant365, or similar platforms. This role is pivotal in developing scalable procurement strategies, optimizing food costs, ensuring inventory accuracy, strengthening vendor relationships, and supporting profitability across all locations.

Key Responsibilities

Supply Chain Management: Develop and implement comprehensive supply chain strategies for multiple restaurant brands. Ensure continuous availability of food products, packaging, beverages, cleaning supplies, and operational inventory. Forecast purchasing needs based on sales trends, seasonality, promotions, and expansion plans. Monitor inventory levels and enforce control measures to reduce waste and shrinkage while maintaining product quality and operational efficiency.

Procurement & Purchasing: Source and negotiate with food manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers nationwide. Manage RFQs, vendor selection, pricing negotiations, and contract renewals. Create strategic purchasing plans to lower procurement costs and identify alternative suppliers to mitigate supply risks. Track commodity pricing and recommend cost-saving initiatives.

Restaurant Inventory Management: Oversee inventory movements across multiple locations. Analyze food usage, waste, spoilage, and stock variances. Ensure accurate and consistent inventory counts, establish replenishment procedures, and optimize stock levels by monitoring inventory turnover.

ERP / Restaurant Systems Management: Utilize hands-on experience with systems such as Toast POS, xtraCHEF, Restaurant365, Square for Restaurants, Oracle MICROS, Revel POS, NCR Aloha, and related restaurant inventory and accounting software. Responsibilities include purchase order management, vendor database upkeep, recipe costing, food cost analysis, invoice processing, inventory reconciliation, cost variance analysis, sales versus inventory reporting, and vendor performance tracking.

Vendor Management: Build and maintain long-term relationships with national and regional suppliers. Conduct supplier performance evaluations, ensure compliance with pricing and service agreements, resolve supply shortages and delivery issues promptly, and negotiate rebates and purchasing incentives.

Cost Control: Monitor food cost percentages and analyze COGS. Review purchasing trends to identify inefficiencies, reduce operational waste, and improve gross margins.

Logistics & Distribution: Coordinate deliveries across restaurant locations, optimize delivery schedules, monitor warehouse inventory where applicable, and ensure product availability during peak periods.

Reporting & Analytics: Prepare executive reports including weekly purchasing, food cost, vendor performance, inventory variance, purchase orders, waste analysis, stock aging, procurement savings, and supply chain KPI dashboards.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with operations, finance, restaurant managers, kitchen management, brand leadership, marketing, and accounting teams to align supply chain activities with business goals.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Logistics, or related field.
- 5–8+ years of progressive experience in restaurant supply chain, procurement, or operations management.
- Proven track record supporting multi-unit restaurant chains in the U.S.
- Expertise with restaurant ERP, inventory, and procurement systems such as Restaurant365, xtraCHEF, Toast, Oracle MICROS, or Aloha.
- Strong understanding of U.S. restaurant purchasing, food distribution, and vendor management.
- Experience negotiating supplier agreements and managing procurement budgets.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and reporting tools.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

Experience with well-known restaurant brands such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Domino’s, KFC, Popeyes, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Five Guys, Panera Bread, Buffalo Wild Wings, Applebee’s, Chili’s, IHOP, Denny’s, Texas Roadhouse, Jersey Mike’s, Raising Cane’s, Wingstop, QDOBA, Blaze Pizza, CAVA, Dave’s Hot Chicken, or Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers is highly preferred.

Join America’s Food Court to be part of a rapidly growing restaurant platform where you will play a critical role in shaping scalable supply chain operations across multiple brands. This position offers the opportunity to influence procurement strategy, enhance operational performance, and contribute directly to the company’s long-term growth and success nationwide.