category sourcing manager (Nashville, TN)

Starbucks Coffee Company • Nashville, TN

3d • $115,300 - $192,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. We are hiring for direct and indirect sourcing teams, that will support our North America operations. This reflects our long-term commitment to innovation, opportunity, and shared success. These roles will be based in Nashville, Tennessee, where we plan to expand our presence with the opening of a new Starbucks office later this year. We look forward to establishing strong roots in this growing city and contributing meaningfully to the local community. Join us and inspire with every cup. Apply today!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred.
• 10+ years sourcing experience preferred.
• 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.
• 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.
• Effectively influences across peer groups and all management levels on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• 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.
• 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 to management.
• 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.
• 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

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

Responsibilities

• Leads key, complex sourcing initiatives that require the ability to exhibit broad sourcing subject matter expertise across both direct and indirect 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, drawing upon experience from direct and indirect sourcing.
• 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.
• Leads the development, architecting and negotiations of complex deal structures, such as outsource models.
• Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments.
• 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

• medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
• 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
• two personal days per year.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• incentivized emergency savings
• financial well-being tools.
• 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
• access to other educational opportunities.
• backup care
• DACA reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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