Location: North America

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The Procurement Director Global Assets, Partnerships & Influencers manages strategic sourcing initiatives for  global and key OU activities. The role works closely with the marketing organisations at global & OU levels, with legal, commercial, and with FD’s.  

The bullseye of the role is to ensure we are partnering closely with the business to identify best â€˜fit for purpose’ partners and assets to support the business strategy and managing a team of talents to ensure excellent negotiations, contract management and ability to drive incremental value and extended ROI from all partnerships.

The role reports to the Snr director Global Marketing Procurement Assets, Partnerships & influencers and manages a significant portion of the global $600m+ of marketing spend. The candidate will be a key partner to the marketing community.

 Organizational Impact: 

• Remit is Global and is responsible for strategies, processes and workflows, relationships and results in speciality area 

• As an individual contributor operate with broad latitude in a complex environment,  be a subject matter expert within the organization & manage large projects or processes. 

• Contributor to the ME&E workstream and performance results 

• They will represent the function of marketing procurement internally and externally to support a progressive, modern and dynamic approach to business. 

Innovation & Complexity 

• Responsible for inputting into & improving upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation.  

• A strong problem solver and business thinker and can bring to bear multi strategies and approaches to manage complex issues. Solutions are novel and unique and draw upon best practices & expertise. 

• Extensively analyzes problems to seek understanding of the root cause of the problem 

• Able to balance needs of global and OU 

Communication & Influence 

• Strong influencing requires ability to convince others within and outside of the organization to agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches impacting subfunctional/business strategy  

• Requires ability to communicate with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance  

• Conducts briefings with senior leaders within & outside the job function  

• Working on many highly sensitive negotiations across TCCC stakeholders, snr management and bottler 

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Qualifications and Requirements 

• 10+ years of total business experience. 4+ years of  Business Affairs, Legal, or other relevant transaction management experience (such as with other major consumer-products company or professional firm providing services to such company) is strongly preferred 

• Strong knowledge of professional sports sponsorship across teams in leagues such as Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and more. OR strong knowledge of Affiliate, Promotion, Licencing & content deals ( Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Google etc.) 

• Ability to manage a large and varied portfolio of multi-million dollar relationships and projects and deliver on time, in full, within budget. 

• Ability to understand long-term implications of business decisions and balance immediate needs against those precedent-setting implications. 

• Ability to synthesize business terms and incorporate legal protections into a binding agreement. Includes knowledge of proper content of agreements and ability to understand and evaluate terms and contract language proposed by counterparties to determine items that are and are not negotiable. 

• Able to easily explore negotiation options and positions to reach outcomes that gain all parties' support and acceptance; striving for outcomes that are a win-win for all parties involved. Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. 

• Ability to interpret and document key business terms; ability to interpret, understand and develop contractual language. Ability to explain to clients the obligations owed and benefits due the Company under its contractual relationships such that clients understand and appreciate the implications that such relationships may have on the Company's strategic decisions and conduct. 

• Knowledge of the external environment in which the Company's business is conducted. Includes ability to offer a broad perspective that extends beyond a particular functional discipline (e.g., marketing, finance) and draw upon knowledge that comes from frequent interaction with different departments, employees and sources and constituencies outside of the Company. 

• Knowledge of business partners (such as customer, bottler, service agent, supplier) in their context: industry trends and competitive pressures, strategies and plans, organizational structure, decision-making process, contacts, technology infrastructure and systems. 

• Ability to work as part of a virtual global team to collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries to deliver better business results and share best practices  

• Ability to use data and apply robust analytics to model various business scenarios and analyze resulting cost, impact, risks, and benefits to inform and recommend business solutions.  

• Knowledge of sources for competitive analysis including supplier and industry data to build competitive intelligence, inform business planning and optimize decision-making. Includes the ability to create and analyze industry cost models order to assess suppliers' competitive capabilities.  

Travel: Max 20% global travel annually 

Skills:

Strategic Sourcing; Category Management; Budget Management; Contracts; Microsoft Office; Communication; Supplier Relationship Management; Low Cost Country Sourcing; Problem Solving; Marketing Capabilities; Technical Category Procurement; Negotiation; Economic Cost Drivers; Continuous Improvement (CI); Procurement Practices

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