Supervisor, Strategic Sourcing Food

McDonald's Corporation • Chicago, IL

17d

About The Position

This position will reside within McDonald’s Global Supply Chain under the Supply Chain Center of Excellence organization. To further advance our strategic capabilities and efficiency, GSC has launched a Center of Excellence (COE) Sourcing team. The COE supervisor will provide support for all Global Supply Chain functions through skill development, reporting, and standardization. This role promotes collaboration within Supply Chain and enables the category teams to focus on strategy and supplier relationships.

Requirements

• Possesses working knowledge of supply chain tools and best practices while also having the capacity to learn more from internal and external sources.
• Willingness to learn new tools and applications and understanding of how they can be applied within the business.
• Builds positive working relationships across multiple levels and business groups
• Drive and patience to partner with stakeholders through change management.
• Customer focused mentality, listens to and understands the needs of stakeholders
• Achieves objectives through influence and narrative building
• Thinks critically and structure analyses to solve ambiguous problems.
• Proactively communicates relevant information to keep key parties informed of progress and potential roadblocks
• Effectively communicates through written and oral methods. Can simplify complex concepts.
• Focuses attention on what matters most, reprioritizing frequently to support dynamic business needs.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization.
• Bachelors’ Degree required
• 3+ years’ experience in strategic sourcing or commensurate experience in related functions.

Nice To Haves

• Diverse supply chain background. Experience with multiple categories, multiple industries, direct, indirect, products, and services.
• Familiarity with applicable tools/applications is a plus: Smartsheet, Microsoft Teams, and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of tools, processes, and standards that improve efficiencies, driving towards standardization, while still assuring that solutions meet stakeholder needs.
• Proactively identifies Supply Chain processes that could gain synergies from centralization.
• Help determine skill development opportunities for Global Supply Chain and facilitate sessions and/or create resources to address opportunities
• Assist in planning and monitoring project pipeline, status reporting, and prioritization.
• Facilitates execution of centralized reporting tools and processes.
• Proactively seek out best practices, market insights, and other Supply Chain functional knowledge for the team.
• Drive visibility of the team and adoption of processes within Global Supply Chain through various communication channels
• Build and maintain surveys, McDonald’s intranet site pages, and other applications for GSSS team members, providing best practice recommendations

Benefits

• This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO).
• This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.

What This Job Offers

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