What are we looking for?

Required Experiences & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or related field

• Minimum 10 years’ experience working in the Procurement field

• Ability to convey communications clearly and concisely to both internal and external stakeholders

• MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint functional skills

Preferred Experiences & Education

• MBA

• 5+ years’ experience working in Sourcing

• 5+ years’ experience working in an Essentials or Premix category

• Working experience with MRP systems

• Good interpersonal, team building and conflict management skills

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Create, deliver, and execute the sourcing strategy for assigned ingredients for Mars Petcare US.  Collaborate with all Mars North American units and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a target value improvement of 5-10% of the total spend. 

• Drive an effective and collaborative relationship with key stakeholders to deliver competitive and market advantages through superior analysis, strategy, judgment, and execution.  Ensure delivery of business plans at or ahead of targets & plans and appropriate Commercial representation in internal business processes.

• Deliver market trend, market development information and analysis to drive business understanding of these markets and how best to utilize the capabilities of suppliers and industry developments to deliver a competitive advantage to Mars Petcare.  This includes leading creation and implementation of strategic supplier initiatives to deliver sustained competitive advantage.

• Identify and implement novel and creative means for reducing costs, improving quality, or otherwise improving total value for money.  This includes networking within the Mars Global Commercial community for best practices & ideas for reapplication.

• Ensure supply chain security and contingency plans to secure business needs and provide recommendations/execute as appropriate.

• Drive in-depth portfolio analysis to clearly identify and drive opportunities to generate category flexibility and agility and implement tools such as e-auctions, RFPs, etc., to drive efficiency in the premix category.

• Develop “Should-Cost” models/clean sheets of materials which requires a deep understanding of cost drivers and the manufacturing process to identify areas for cost savings opportunity.