Category sourcing manager, Marketing - Indirect Service Sourcing

Now Brewing – category sourcing manager, Marketing - Indirect Service Sourcing! #tobeapartner

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection.

This job contributes to Starbucks success by being a pioneer and executing unique sourcing strategies and solutions across categories to architect the business for the future.

Shaping the Business

Strategy Architect: Leads key, complex sourcing initiatives that require the ability to exhibit broad sourcing subject matter expertise across marketing, digital, martech, and payments categories. Employs deep knowledge and sourcing experience and applies it to unique situations and opportunities for the business. Provides consultative sourcing support and thought leadership across the sourcing organization and business stakeholders, drawing upon experience from indirect sourcing and understanding of marketing categories.

Drive Value

Value Architect: Leverages best practices, structured problem solving to break down complex problems, identify solutions and align business to recommendations. Brings out of the box thinking to reimagine a way to reshape the way the business is thinking about the future. Reengineering current processes from foundational state to future vision state. Employs expert knowledge of market dynamics to identify both risk and opportunity.

• Develop Strong Relationships and Reduce Risk Contract Architect:
  Leveraging excellent knowledge of legal terms and contracting best practices; leads the development, architecting and negotiations of complex deal structures, such as enterprise tech agreements, agency governance structure, and performance-based fee models.
• Relationship Management:
  Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop strong relationships. Manage contract requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments. Define and implement strong governance structure with key suppliers to build and maintain strong relationships and ensure delivery of business goals.
• Risk Management:
  
  Lead key initiatives to enhance protection of the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risk. Take action to mitigate, reduce, and eliminate risk related to ethical sourcing, capacity, supplier financial, margin, and other identified risks. Instinctively balances risk and certainty.

• Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary):
  Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, marketing or other related fields preferred.
• Years of experience in specific fields or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 10+ years sourcing experience preferred.

• Sourcing Foundations:
  Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms, RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations.
• Problem Solving & Business Acumen:
  Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve. Strong acumen for coping with different business situations in a professional manner via obtaining essential information, focus on key objectives, recognize options available for solving problems, selecting the right approach to overcome obstacles, and set plans in motion to achieve execution.
• Teamwork:
  Effectively influences across peer groups and all management levels on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• Project Management:
  Strong acumen for coping with different business situations in a professional manner via obtaining essential information, focus on key objectives, recognize options available for solving problems, selecting the right approach to overcome obstacles, and set plans in motion to achieve execution.
• Emotional…