sourcing manager, Global Supply Chain (Nashville, TN)

This job contributes to Starbucks success by managing core, routine, and evolving suppliers to shape the business, deliver value and manage risk.

Shaping the Business

• Strategy: Develops, owns, and executes sourcing strategies that enable bottom-line and top-line company growth, through the incorporation of data-driven insights, stakeholder needs, and business objectives. Strategies shall address corporate social responsibility as it pertains to supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and sustainability, where applicable.
• Project Management: Effectively manages multiple competing projects and deadlines. Independently solve 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.

• Business Case Development: Obtains alignment for ideas by creating detailed and workable proposals, considering strategic, commercial, economic, financial, and organizational impacts.
   

  Drive Value

   

• Value Stewardship: Consistently build a value pipeline and execute plans by leveraging relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to identify and drive value. 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. Value is defined as cost savings, supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, innovation, and margin protection.
• Supplier Management & Collaboration: Management of core and routine 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 meetings which demonstrate supplier growth and improvement and coach suppliers on understanding our business better.

• Supplier Enabled Innovation Management: Enables connection between supplier's capabilities and internal business needs.

  
   

  Protect Supply and Reduce Risk

   

• Contracting: Working knowledge of legal terms and contracting best practices to own and partner on contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Develop negotiation skills and style to reach a win-win deal. 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.

   

• Risk Management: 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary): Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred.

• Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 2+ years sourcing, analytics, finance, engineering, planning, supply chain or other relevant experience preferred.

   

   

  Skills (minimum skills required): 

   

   

• Sourcing Foundations: Working knowledge of procurement processes such as sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Proficient knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements).
• Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve.
• Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• Project Management: Effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure.
• Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to n