Sr Strategic Sourcing Manager - Consulting

Job Description:

Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager

This role must be based on a hybrid basis from Hackettstown or Newark NJ /Chicago, IL offices.

The Sr Strategic Sourcing Manager Consulting is responsible for the development & execution of Category Management strategies Consulting for all Mars Segments globally, and reports to the Sr. Director Commercial - General Services. This role will develop an enterprise wide strategy of a 3 year roadmap covering a spend of $200M with a documented execution plan aligned to the business strategies & key stakeholders.

This position will be responsible for optimizing investments in terms of cost, quality, risk per the Mars commercial manual and its processes as well as following MGS Commercial governance. This person will be responsible for ensuring supplier performance and acts as the first point of contact for suppliers and internal stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

• Ideally you will have around 5 years' commercial or purchasing experience in Consulting at Global level,
• We want someone who shares our passion for driving value for our business by leveraging various sourcing channels.
• You'll also need to hold a Bachelors / master's degree.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• BEST PRACTICE Develop Category insights, benchmark and import best practices and ensure knowledge management within the Regional Sourcing Teams across regions.
• STRATEGY Develops deep understanding of our business needs, external benchmarks and category industry and people capabilities, to create and execute Category sourcing strategies with an End-to-End approach, focusing on a time horizon of 3-5y, driving innovation and challenge to bring competitive advantage to the business.
• PARTERING Partner with the key Global & Regional stakeholders including to ensure alignment with the business requirements as well as strategy and execution plan
• FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION Contributes with value creation across the Consulting spend, including P&L cost reduction, Cash from Payment Term.
• PROJECT AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT Ensures robust project and change management processes, right governance and escalation procedures.
• TEAM Active member of the Global General Services team and establishes and maintains working relationship with the Regional Category Operations Buying Managers and Category Sourcing Managers
• NEGOTIATION & CONTRACTING Lead the Global and critical supplier financial and contractual negotiation, but also relationship & Performance management. Works with the regions to ensure successful Implementation of regional contracts and related Service Level Agreements for the respective
• SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (SPRM) Develops and maintains sustainable relationships with Critical suppliers. Tracks, monitors and drives key supplier performance indicators across cost, service and quality and puts corrective actions in place for continuous improvement.
• CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Implements and complies with standard processes and tools to ensure responsible, continuous and sustainable sourcing in line with commercial policies, systems and controls.
• TOOLS Applies a wide range of sourcing tools (e.g. negotiation, e-procurement, strategic collaboration, etc.) to define the best trading strategic approach for use when allocating business to suppliers, appropriate to the strategic choice.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.