category sourcing manager, Marketing - Indirect Service Sourcing

Starbucks Coffee Company • Seattle, WA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, marketing or other related fields preferred.
• 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 Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder. Ability to effectively use different types of influencing styles.
• Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication management.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (certificates), learning more about the broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers.
• Other: Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data); also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.

Nice To Haves

• Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Anticipate others' perspectives based on their role, level, and body language. Response to change is to consciously move through acceptance, adoption, and internalization.
• Communications & Business Acumen: Skilled storyteller in answer-first style.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
• Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year.
• Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools.
• Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities.
• You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement.
• Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies.
• This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative.
• For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager