Director, Strategic Sourcing - National Brands

7-Eleven • Irving, TX

12d

About The Position

The Director of Strategic Sourcing will, in collaboration with the Merchandise Category leaders, manage the strategic relationships with large CPG manufacturers and National Brands and provide strategic leadership for National Brands negotiations at 7-Eleven. This position will provide thought leadership and be a critical partner enabling the company strategy and meet growth targets. They will partner with Category leaders, Marketing and other cross functional teams to leverage enterprise spend and portfolio positioning, overlay insights from various analysis and develop supplier negotiation strategies. This position will lead complex negotiations to drive cost savings, trade funding, and margin improvement. The ideal candidate brings experience in complex, executive level negotiations specifically with National Brands, category management, supplier and contract management, cross-functional leadership, and translating business strategy into executable negotiation plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, Masters preferred
• 15+ years leading large, complex teams, projects, or strategic sourcing/procurement functions in a large organization; end-to-end sourcing process knowledge preferred.
• Experience developing sourcing strategies, category roadmaps, and supplier portfolios, preferably in National Brands, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, general merchandise, or related retail categories.
• Demonstrated success developing negotiation strategies and leading complex contract negotiations that support cost, quality, service, risk management, and business objectives.
• Strong analytical skills, business acumen, and process improvement mindset, with the ability to use data, market intelligence, supplier insights, and scalable tools to support negotiations and executive recommendations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders at all organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a National Brands negotiations team that leverage our enterprise scale to create competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with the various category teams to develop supplier negotiation strategies taking into account enterprise spend, portfolio positioning, and private label alternatives to improve commercial outcomes.
• Lead complex negotiations in partnership with the category team focused on enabling business growth, innovation, cost competitiveness and risk mitigation. Negotiate pricing, rebates, trade funds, promotional allowances, payment terms, service levels, and contract clauses.
• Facilitate fact-based negotiations by using data-driven sourcing practices—including should-cost analysis, commodity tracking, and market benchmarks—to generate supplier insights, evaluate proposals, and identify savings and funding opportunities.
• Manage strategic relationships with large CPG manufacturers and national brands. Conduct annual business reviews and vendor performance negotiations.
• Build a high-performing culture of business partnership providing thought leadership, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement. Develop the team through coaching, prioritization, clear performance expectations and talent development.
• Improve sourcing governance, processes and tools, reporting and decision frameworks to create scalable ways of working that deliver savings, reduce risk, improve speed, strengthen supplier accountability, and support enterprise growth priorities.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

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