Sourcing Manager - Corporate & Professional Services

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Sourcing Manager - Corporate & Professional Services

Apply locations Business Unit Head Office Gladstone - Toronto, Canada Monterrey, Mexico Santa Fé, Mexico time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id R-103529

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our mission to change the way the world snacks. Make It Matter.

The role holder reports directly to Director – Global Sourcing, Corporate & Professional Services within Global Sourcing team under Procurement. The role will entail working closely with the North American business in sourcing business services spends (Estimated size of spend managed is USD 200 Million)

The key activities include building strong relationships with cross functional stakeholders to manage end to end procurement activities from contract advisory, managing bid events, supplier negotiations, supporting project execution, supplier relationship management, and driving controls and compliance across all M&A Activity.

How you will contribute

• The role holder will manage services categories like temporary labour, consulting, travel, car leasing, recruitment, financial services etc.
• Role holder will support global category owners with strategy development and implementation at regional and local level.
• Leads integration activities of new ventures into Mondelēz North America business ensuring all procurement synergies are realized in the categories managed

• Lead RFPs and review sourcing approaches by applying the different sourcing techniques, including analysis of categories, markets and suppliers aligned with the sourcing strategy. Execute end-to-end sourcing and contract management activities and being adept in following 7 step sourcing process

• Challenge & proactively partner with the various business stakeholders to ensure right external partner selection, and internal process changes to drive value.

• Manage regional supplier relationships through structured SPE programs and driving supplier performance
• Own delivery of key business objectives – Productivity & Budget Savings, Cash & Payment Term improvement, improve supplier diversity and ensure 100% compliance
• Work in collaboration cross-functionally with other support functions such as legal, security, finance, tax, etc for efficient contract execution.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Procurement experience across different market
• Demonstrating a future-focused mindset, showing curiosity about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business strategies
• Strategic sourcing and risk management
• Business and financials and an understanding of how procurement brings financial value to the overall profit and loss
• Leading and developing teams in a multi-cultural environment
• Organizational agility, influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with senior leaders based on a deep understanding of business priorities
• Modelling trust, integrity and perseverance

Travel requirements: <5%

Work schedule: Hybrid

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelors’ degree with relevant specialization: Business/Commerce/Science Supply Chain. Desirable to have MBA but not mandatory. Recognized qualification or certification in Procurement or Supply Chain Management is considered advantageous

Work Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of working experience across Procurement or Finance or Supply Chain. Prior experience in indirects sourcing with direct category management responsibility will be considered advantageous

What extra ingredients you will bring

• Negotiating, influencing, and building collaborative relationships internally and externally in a multi-cultural environment
• Strong interpersonal skills including cross-functional teamwork, advanced project management and ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Highly passionate and learning agility with a proven track record of bias towards action.
• Demonstrating a future-focused mindset, showing curiosity about industry trends & external benchmarks, digital solutions and translating opportunities into business strategies
• Good analytical skills (Advanced Excel) with an ability to analyze and visualize large amounts of data; Visual presentation (PowerPoint proficiency) and effective written and oral communication skills.
• Curiosity and being fearless in challenging status quo and driving new thinking to continually evolve the category to drive value creation for business.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and navigate with minimal supervision.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term 'accommodation' in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

RegularSourcingProcurement

About Us

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.