Strategic Sourcing Manager - Grains

Job Description:

Strategic Sourcing Manager - Grains

Mars Petcare North America buys a number of hedgeable and non-hedgeable grains to support fast-growing pet nutrition business. This strategic sourcing role is responsible for contracting physical coverage and creating and driving category strategies of vegetable meals (e.g., soybean meal) and other grain products. This role will also work closely with our price risk management team to create, propose, and execute category price coverage strategies

What are we looking for?

• Minimum Bachelors' Degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Agriculture, or Meteorology
• 3 + years of strategic sourcing, price risk management, inbound operations, or similar experience
• Moderate understanding in price risk management principles, hedging tools, and best practice processes
• An in depth understanding of commodity and agricultural products, including underlying market dynamics, agricultural supply chains, product specifications, and quality challenges associated with agricultural products, including mycotoxin risk
• Demonstrated experience creating and execution a category sourcing strategy
• Demonstrated negotiation skills
• Demonstrated experience working with RFPs, RFQs, and/or E-Auctions
• Strong communication skills including messaging of complex analysis to a broad, diverse, and large stakeholder group including Senior leaders, business units, and buying teams.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Creating and executing category sourcing strategies that deliver security of supply and cost savings for Mars for the short-, medium-, and long-term time horizons.
• Partner with our price risk management team to create, propose, and execute price coverage strategies for your categories.
• Partner with the R&D and Quality functions to deliver a safe product meeting our to our sites
• Comply with Mars Commercial Guide requirements and other fundamental procurement responsibilities, including category strategies, spend allocations, contracts, etc.
• Willingness to occasionally travel to Mars manufacturing sites, suppliers, and conferences. Travel requirements approximately 10%.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded 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.

#LI-GK24

#LI-Hybrid

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.