Specialist, Strategic Sourcing - Sourcing Excellence

Company: Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates
Location: Chicago
Posted on: March 4, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description:As the Specialist, Strategic Sourcing - Sourcing Excellence, your primary responsibility is to oversee buying activities across multiple sites and segments within Mars Americas. This involves ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality, risk management, and availability while adhering to commercial policies and processes. Your focus lies in delivering a continuous supply of cost-effective, service-oriented, and timely CAPEX investments, covering various areas such as construction, equipment, machinery, automation, packaging, and processes.What are we looking for?

• Ideally you will have around 5 years' commercial or purchasing experience, preferably in the areas of CapEx or other indirect buying which is factory related.
• Contract management knowledge.
• Excellent Stakeholder Management skills.
• College degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, others.
• Fluent English, Advanced Spanish and Portuguese (This role will manage local stakeholders in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Mexico and Brasil).What will be your key responsibilities?
  • Lead end to end sourcing activities for CapEx investments, including construction, equipment, machinery, automation, packaging, and processes, ensuring alignment with business commitments and sourcing strategies.
  • Deliver against the established KPI's of the area, digital sourcing adoption, optimize the supplier data base and ensure compliance with Commercial policies and processes.
  • Implement supply base strategy for multiple Mars manufacturing sites within North America.
  • Contract Management: non-disclosure agreements (NDA's), contract creation, contract extensions, contract renewals and contract terminations.
  • Support the implementation of global CapEx strategies and collaborate with category leaders, team members and peers to create synergies and maximize results.
  • Actively participate in team meetings and establish periodic meetings with key stakeholders in the sites to align on priorities which sits under the Sourcing Excellence Team areas of responsibility.What can you expect from Mars?
    • Work with diverse 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.
    • [Insert any additional market/role specific benefits that the candidate might be interested in]Find out more about what Mars can offer you by 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.
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