senior sourcing manager, Global Supply Chain (Nashville, TN)

Starbucks Coffee Company•Nashville, TN

23d•Hybrid

About The Position

This job contributes to Starbucks success by independently shaping, driving and protecting the business through multi-year sourcing strategy and managing relationships with strategic, and competitive suppliers. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred.
4+ years sourcing experience preferred.
Intermediate knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as 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.
Effectively influences across peer groups and senior management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
Highly effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure. Proactively mitigates situations before they become issues.
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 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 (i.e. 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

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.
Anticipate others' perspectives based on their role, level, and body language. Response to change is to consciously move through acceptance, adoption, and internalization. Ability to effectively use different types of influencing styles.
Skilled storyteller in answer-first style.

Responsibilities

Develops, owns, and executes effective, comprehensive multi-year category sourcing strategies that enable bottom-line and top-line company growth, through the incorporation of data-driven insights, stakeholder needs, and business objectives. Strategies shape stakeholder thinking. Strategies shall address corporate social responsibility as it pertains to supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and sustainability, where applicable.
Effectively manages the portfolio of projects and deadlines. Independently solves problems and make decisions to ensure successful execution of the project. Provides oversight, guidance, and drives completion of project plans. Documents post-mortems when necessary. Provide oversight, guidance and drives execution of project plans.
Creates business cases to drive sourcing strategies/initiatives that present the opportunity to shape the business. Obtains alignment for ideas by creating detailed and workable proposals, considering strategic, commercial, economic, financial, and organizational impacts.
Consistently build a value pipeline and execute plans by leveraging relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to identify and drive value. Deep knowledge of category and supplier spend, as well as the key cost drivers of the product/service. Evaluate market trends and key cost drivers to identify, implement and track cost savings. Leverage the value analysis insights and incorporate them into strategies for implementation. Analyze complex supplier proposals and use decision-making tools and models including financial and non-financial criteria to facilitate award recommendations. Value is defined as cost savings, supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, innovation, and margin protection.
Management of strategic and preferred suppliers. Cultivate partnerships with new and existing suppliers through the lens of Starbucks values, generating trust and transparency, in order to maximize mutual value and reduce risk. Professionally lead supplier key business reviews which demonstrate supplier growth and improvement, execute corrective action plans (as needed), and coach suppliers on understanding our business better.
Actively identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to match supplier's capabilities with internal business needs. Influence internal stakeholders to proactively engage with the suppliers on innovative concepts.
Proficient knowledge to independently own and led contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Skilled negotiation savvy and approaches supplier 'we' mindset. 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.
Protects 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