Mars · 3 days ago
Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing - Americas Supply
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$191K/yr - $262K/yr
10+ years expMars is a global company known for its diverse portfolio in the food and pet care industries. They are seeking a Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing to develop category vision and strategic procurement across various supply categories, ensuring competitive advantage and effective stakeholder partnerships.
ConfectioneryConsumer GoodsFood and BeverageManufacturing
Responsibilities
Demonstrate visible and inspiring leadership, create a sense of motivation, belonging and engagement for the associates. Create a results-oriented, high performing and energizing culture. Attract, retain, and develop associates and deliver succession plans that enable Commercial value delivery
Develop deep category expertise that will deliver and continuously improve organization efficiencies, maximize value creation and create competitive advantage opportunities
Accountable for business impact through leading development, business alignment and subsequent execution of sub multi-year category strategies reducing total cost of ownership by 6%+ annually and delivering cash benefits
Establish and maintain business partnership relationships with key regional stakeholders to ensure deep understanding of segment needs and strategies in order to generate maximum business value from commercial strategies as well as influence the improvement of internal practices including the challenge of demand and specifications
Leads development and enhancement of industry best practices across assigned categories including improvement of processes, systems, tools, specifications, forecasts
Accountable for development of knowledge management, insights and analytics: understanding of industry trends, total value chain, cost/ price drivers, suppliers and competitors to ensure generation of TCO and Value advantages to Mars
Builds commercial ownership for relationship development with strategic suppliers: keeps optimum number of suppliers, negotiate competitive terms and contracts, secure competitive advantage, and enables access to innovative and value creation solutions from suppliers capabilities ahead of competitors
Leads supplier performance and contract compliance – provides regular financial, service and quality forecasts and updates to appropriate functional executives
Accountable for compliance and enhancement of proper procedures, policies, systems and controls, manages approvals and governance
Accountable to mobilize the team to look for new opportunities to achieve Mars sustainability goals, develop required plans, align internally and execute with suppliers
Effective member of the Commercial Regional Leadership team, providing valuable contributions beyond Supply
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree: Business, Economics, MBA is a plus
10+ years in Procurement in multi-national environment
5-10 years experience in Logistics procurement
Very high level of business acumen / can-do mindset – must have strong analytical skills, understanding and anticipating consequences of macro-economic changes on the business environment
Proven track record in successful procurement leadership in a complex environment
Demonstrated ability to establish a vision for change and lead complex transformation programs
Excellent knowledge of Logistics and Supply and demonstrated ability to develop and effectively implement category strategies leveraging or developing best practices
Strong cultural agility and capacity to navigate efficiently through ambiguity, changes, multiple stakeholders and complex matrix organization
Highly effective interpersonal skills – excellent negotiator, storytelling, strong communication and influencing skills to all organizational levels. Demonstrated ability to develop credible business relationships with senior executives internally and externally
Proven ability to lead a high performing, multi-cultural team based in different locations and comfortable working within a complex matrix organization
Results orientated – comfortable setting and delivering against bold, stretch targets
Benefits
Company bonus
Medical and dental benefits
Participation in 401k plan
Paid time off benefits
Company
Mars
Mars is a manufacturer of pet food, confectionery, and other food products.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2025-03-04Debt Financing
Leadership Team
Claus Aagaard
CFO
Meghal Sheth
CFO, Mars Wrigley India
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