Reporting to the Director Procurement you will support strategic sourcing activities for corporate and brand communication, PR/Social, digital, advertising, media, e-commerce, and demand science for domestic and international partners. You must provide excellent sourcing strategies to meet our needs of the businesses supported by the function. This includes managing all agency/vendor relationships in collaboration with the Marketing Group and other organizations supported, developing a clear knowledge of supplier capabilities in evolving spaces, securing engagement through data-driven business cases, gaining agreement from partners, leading teams through the development of essential category programs, researching and benchmarking important external agency data to ensure best practice analysis and implementation, leading contract negotiations and collaborations with essential team members and performing and coordinating risk and financial analysis of suppliers.

You Will:

• Strategize, build a partnership plan and lead essential negotiations

• Communicate with senior leaders on matters of strategic importance

• Provide strategic sourcing solutions for team members.

• Understand the legal, technical, and commercial aspects of contracts and communicate.

• Drive efficiency opportunities, including working capital plans

• Foster relationships with partners. Understand goals and needs and influence decisions to provide value to the all company partners

• Provide ongoing industry insight and ensure that strategies are up-to-date for all major spend areas.

• Manage appropriate internal systems ie. CMD, SAP, Scout and Clarizen

• Use strategic approaches to create business relationships and creative structures to accomplish best value.

• Think through processes and relationship scenarios and advise your team on value added approaches.

• Lead understanding efforts with business groups.

• Maintain accurate and complete contract records.

• Lead RFI, RFP and RFQ processes with partners to identify and select suppliers to ensure competitive market advantage, leverage spend, improve performance and reduce costs.

• Manage supplier performance reviews with we partner to measure and document supplier performance, identify development areas and establish corrective action plans for improved performance and delivery

You Have:

• Experienced professional with understanding of marketing and brand processes.

• Background in marketing with legal contract knowledge

• Market sourcing experience

• Requires a BA degree in Marketing or Business Administration.

• Minimum 10 years of experience procuring marketing related services, including exposure to industry agency compensation methodologies, knowledge of contract terms and provisions, and a understanding of important advertising spend categories (media, content creation, e-commerce)

• At this time, we require applicants for this role to be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship either now or in the future

Our Modern Workplace:

Conagra’s culture of collaboration enhances our ability to meet critical business goals, deliver value to customers and consumers and provide you with the flexibility you need to achieve a better work-life balance. We carefully consider each role and how often each team member needs to collaborate in-person. This position requires you work from our Chicago office 3 days per week.

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Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
• Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
• Balance: paid-time off, paternal leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that’s passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. â€‹