Sr. Indirect Strategic Sourcing Manager, Facilities, Retail and General Indirect Merchandising

Job ID: 242303
Location Name: FSC REMOTE SF/NY/DC -173(USA_0173)
Address: FSC, Remote, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type:
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Real Estate/Prop Dev
Remote Eligible:Yes

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves.  We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us.  We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The Opportunity:

Your role at Sephora:
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for developing strong and effective business partner relationships and providing strategic sourcing support to the Chief Marketing Officer organization.  Reporting to the Director of Strategic Sourcing, you will leverage your experience to deliver significant value to key stakeholders by managing the end-to-end strategic sourcing process for Facilities, Retail and Indirect Merchandising categories (your primary spend category) and associated sub-categories such as Office Supplies, Janitorial, Retail Consumables, Packaging with stretch on cross-functional category collaborations as needed.

Your core category and sub-category responsibilities will include but are not limited to, Facilities, Retail and Indirect Merchandising, and Shared Services sourcing engagements to drive savings through market-driven strategies and negotiations.

In addition, you will: 

• Develop strong relationships with and be recognized as a valued partner by the various stakeholders to influence business decisions
• Collaborate with Finance and functional stakeholders to develop strategic sourcing plans with well-defined cost savings and avoidance targets
• Achieve year-over-year improvements in assigned category spend, without sacrificing quality and service
• Conduct all phases in the development of complex contracts, including reviewing statements of work or requirements, request for information (RFI), and request for proposal (RFP) development
• Partner with a broad mix of stakeholders on contract evaluation, redlining, and negotiation, such as Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and Internal Controls
• Continually improve supplier performance by setting measurable, contractual, performance targets and related supplier performance management
• Stay abreast of changes in the market, such as emerging technologies and suppliers, and evaluate and address any impact of changes in supplier status (eg, via acquisition)
• Build an execute a plan to identify and evaluate diverse suppliers, with a goal of increasing the percentage of category spend with diverse suppliers
• Advocate for and track compliance to Sephora's Indirect Spend and Delegation of Authority policies by delivering periodic training, aka "road shows," and appropriately escalating non-compliance
• Provide thought leadership and support to ad hoc projects optimizing Strategic Sourcing's effectiveness, for example, by proposing and implementing process improvements
• Strategize across categories/departments to identify opportunities for gained efficiencies and cost-effectiveness in supplier negotiations
• Build project plans and timelines to ensure key milestones are being captured and met as it relates to the sourcing process
• Close sourcing projects in a timely manner, including but not limited to uploading executed agreements to our contract lifecycle management, and security stakeholder and finance approval on savings or cost avoidance
• Effectively communicate status updates to key stakeholders, including timely identification and escalation/resolution of issues
• Keep up to date with market trends in the category and procurement functions
• Bring best practices in Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Indirect Procurement to drive automation and simplification.
• Participating actively to improve Sephora's Sustainability, Supplier Diversity, and 3rd party Risk goals.
• Demonstrate Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative. 

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 8+ years of strategic sourcing experience, with strong expertise in multiple product and service categories in a multi-national retail corporation
• Experience in sourcing multiple key categories such as facilities, retail, indirect merchandising, and packaging required.
• Excellent prioritization skills with the ability to adapt and change quickly.
• A continuous learning mindset
• Knowledge of sourcing catego