MARS
Strategic Sourcing Manager – Marketing and Sales
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager – Marketing and Sales at Royal Canin, you will partner closely with stakeholders on North American market teams and business units to drive development & implementation of sub-category buying strategies and co-pilot optimization of resources. You’ll manage regional initiatives for North America by leveraging supplier relationships, while also driving standardization and automation. Ownership of sub-category spend on a regional basis will be key, as will heavy cross-functional collaboration and close partnership with key stakeholders.
What are we looking for?
- 3+ years of procurement experience.
- A passion for developing strong relationships with supplier and cross-functional stakeholders
- Bachelors degree at a minimum.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- You will recommend and implement supply base strategy, including assessing and developing suppliers.
- Benchmarking, leading RFP activity and driving the qualification/implementation of new suppliers.
- You will also manage supplier governance, including supplier performance auditing.
- Direct oversight of ($30m+) in spend.
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.
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