About The Position

This job contributes to Starbucks success by leading a team responsible for ensuring managing supplier relationships and driving operational excellence across our network, resulting in exceptional, supplier, customer and partner experience. This role will drive cross-functional strategic alignment, lead supplier performance management including key performance indicators, goals, budgeting, prioritization, initiative pipeline, and resource allocation. Models and acts in accordance with Starbucks mission and values.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or significant relevant experience
  • 8-10+ years managing successful teams
  • 8-10+ years’ in supplier relationship management operations with progressively increasing responsibility
  • 8-10+ years general business experience in large, matrixed organizations
  • 8-10+ years leading cross-functional initiatives
  • 5+ years change management
  • 5+ years of project or program management
  • Experience managing global, remote teams

Responsibilities

  • Model leadership behaviors that are grounded in Starbucks Mission and Values.
  • Drive the engagement, development and performance of all members of their team.
  • Create and execute short and long-term global supplier development strategies and execution including goals, budget, initiatives, and resource allocation.
  • Lead a team to establish and manage supplier relationships end-to-end including supplier discovery, selection, performance, new & existing contract negotiations and renewals, managing value levers and ensuring high performance and exceptional.
  • Drive strategic alignment across internal business unit stakeholders.
  • Negotiates for human, financial and other resources, liaises with external and internal suppliers and partners and stakeholders on prioritization of projects and programs and provides professional guidance and leadership to project teams to realize the strategic business vision or desired result.
  • Collaborate and establishes partnerships with support and business units to continuously innovate and redesign programs to better serve our customers and partners.
  • Create continuous feedback loops with internal customers and business partners to ensure alignment.
  • Drive commercial performance, strategic partnership management, risk oversight and overall supplier performance
  • Lead supplier score carding, KPI development and reviews, strategy and execution of continuous improvement across cost, quality and deliver objectives
  • Lead innovation pipeline develop and execution with key suppliers
  • Manage financial, operational and supply chain risk and continuity planning
  • Partner with cross-functional teams on risk management and resiliency plans

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%25 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

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Senior

Number of Employees

5,001-10,000 employees

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