Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Overview

The Manager – Strategic Sourcing will be a key part of the strategic sourcing and supply chain processes for Global Gaming and On-Board Media across all Carnival Corporation & plc.

Working closely with the reporting Director and business stakeholders, this individual will play an integral part in identifying, developing, and executing strategic sourcing initiatives for these categories.

The Manager – Strategic Sourcing will work with suppliers as well as each cruise line on board media professionals and with the Global Casino Operations team members. This role is responsible for leading sourcing projects from cradle to grave:
Developing sourcing strategies aligned with business requirements, building effective relationships with functional stakeholders, strategically sourcing and negotiating contracts with suppliers, developing supplier performance assessment foundation. Further, the Manager – Strategic Sourcing will assist in the identifying, developing, and implementing process improvements in the sourcing and supply chain process for these categories, or in others as necessary.

• Strategic Sourcing – Global Gaming and On-Board Media
  • Work with Corporate Leadership to develop the sourcing and procurement strategies for on board media and global gaming, aligning with company-wide goals and objectives.
  • Partner with stakeholders to effectively leverage scale, simplify the supplier base, reduce total cost of ownership, improve guest and crew satisfaction. Manage differing interests towards a holistic solution which will benefit the organization as a whole.
  • Execute category strategies following Carnival’s strategic sourcing processes.
  • Provide a significant positive financial impact by optimizing commercial terms through negotiations.
  • Help improve tactical procurement processes to improve efficiency of transactional work with suppliers.
  • Leverage market and supplier risk analysis (e.g. market drivers, macroeconomic conditions, etc.) to anticipate its impact across the business and work with leadership to develop associated strategies and action plans to maximize the opportunity.
  • Delivers results to Performance Goals including but not limited to hard savings, cost avoidance, supplier diversity and sustainability.

• Analytics & Reporting – Global Gaming and On-Board Media
  • Acting as a financial steward, spearhead and manage projects to reduce total cost of ownership while meeting financial business goals and objectives (e.g., costs, service, quality, policies, supply & risk mitigation).
  • Participate in the development of business analytics and reporting including creating KPI reporting, analysis and communication with leadership.
  • Utilize business data and AI to identify sourcing opportunities, then create action plans and implement sourcing projects.
  • Utilize data to analyze results and quantify savings.

• Process Efficiencies – Global Gaming and On-Board Media
  • Use continuous improvement principles to drive process efficiency by minimizing transactional work and issue reoccurrence.

• Relationship Management – Suppliers and Stakeholders of Global Gaming and On-Board Media
  • Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and internal stakeholders by meeting with them regularly to gain detailed knowledge of their needs and leverage points for each area. Further, stay abreast of key business strategies, annual goals/objectives, economic challenges / opportunities, current trends, requirements, changes, etc.
  • Follow a heightened service excellence approach to exceed on customers’ expectations.
  • Build and maintain trusting working relationships by permanently assessing on needs and delivering upon those.
  • Perform project management duties which will include overseeing and ensuring quality delivery of assigned projects; collect, measure, report and communicate progress with key stakeholders. Further, apply project management concepts to deliver on time commitments.

• The role fits into the organization by managing key supplier relationships and ensuring smooth transitions of agreements to the procurement team.
• The role requires solving complex issues related to strategic sourcing initiatives and…