Director of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

The Fresh Market & You:

Our mission is to make everyday eating extraordinary for our guests. We create a warm, welcoming, memorable experience with exceptional, personal service. We’re looking for a new team member who strives for excellence and brings positive energy, commitment, and a “can-do” attitude to work every day. We value teamwork and celebrate our successes as a team and will value your contribution!

 

 Added Benefits for choosing The Fresh Market Team:

• Team member discount up to 40%
• Health, Dental & Vision insurance available for individual, spouse, partner, and family.
• 401K contribution and match for part-time and full-time team members.
• Personal time off and additional time off purchase plans available
• And much more!

About the Position:

The Fresh Market currently has an opening for a Director of Strategic Sourcing & Promotion in our Store Support Center, located in Greensboro, NC. This role provides enterprise-level leadership sourcing strategy and is responsible for ensuring procurement initiatives meet the Companies overall business mission and objectives.

 

The Director of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement provides the leadership/management required to execute TFM Procurement processes in assigned categories, business units and procurement systems and platforms that meet the Company’s dynamic business strategies and needs. These processes include governance of Company spend, 7-Step Sourcing process, contracts, AQSCIR model, Total Cost of Ownership tracking system, Preferred Vendor List program, Procurement systems platforms and general Procurement processes.

What You'll Do:

• Cultivate strategic supplier relationships, driving seamless integration and cutting-edge innovation.
• Drive partnership with Category Team/Business Unit. (Real Estate, Marketing, IT, Merchandising, Finance, Ops, etc).
• Ensure global procurement resource aligns around the Company’s business direction and strategies.
• Ensure information needed to meet supply base requirements are communicated to the leaders of the Category Teams or Business Units.
• Work on timeline/calendar processes and communication around these partners.
• Provide oversight on specific projects as they occur within a season.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners.
• Collaborate internally across functional areas to understand and incorporate business constraints where appropriate.
• Practical adoption and use of the Category Management cross-functional process to deliver Procurement strategies for each Category or for the Business Unit or systems platforms.
• On an ongoing basis, evaluate risk, threats and opportunities in the global marketplace; recommend and facilitate changes as needs and opportunities arise.
• Challenge existing ways of working in pursuit of opportunities for cost reduction, value improvement and application of lean processes.
• Adoption, adaptation and use of relevant e-procurement tools & systems.
• Utilize technology to optimize procurement activities, enable data driven decision making and ensure consistency globally.
• Delivery of goods and services against the Procurement business model of AQSCIR in a measurable fashion.
• Develop and lead implementation of appropriate KPI’s for assigned categories through real time dashboards.
• Focus on supplier engagement, innovation and sustainability to drive savings and additional value through regular communication and senior level quarterly business reviews (QBR).
• Analysis, management and projection of purchase price variance to standard cost/budgets for assigned categories.
• Direct the activities of the direct/indirect reports to assure that the Procurement business needs are met.
• Ensure suppliers meet all of the Company’s CSR requirements.
• Optimize processes through partnership across the enterprise and, where appropriate, with our parent company (Cencosud) to align platforms, standards, and best practices.

Competencies or behavioral characteristics required to the accomplish primary accountabilities of job:

• Willing to make tough/unpopular decisions and “hold their own” with other functions and the ability to influence and embrace cross functional teams to TCO approaches.
• Ability to work independently and within a matrix environment; a self-starter.
• Strong combination of business and technical knowledge base, particularly for specific spend commodities.
• Analytical and strategic problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong communications skills (written and verbal).
• Strong influencing and leadership skills.
• Ability t