Job Purpose and Impact

The Supplier Diversity Specialist will support multiple country or multiple business sourcing activities. In this role, you will execute complex procurement tasks to provide inputs to the global category team.

Key Accountabilities

• Execute medium and highly complex sourcing events.
• Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and provide support with the implementation of global sourcing decisions.
• Provide inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
• Provide comprehensive understanding of regional stakeholder and procurement landscape.
• Monitor continuous regional supplier and stakeholder relationships.
• Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of noncontracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of two years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of supplier diversity and supply chain management strategies/practices.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Tools, PowerBI, SAP, Ariba, Aravo.
• Working knowledge of how Supplier Diversity Advocacy Organizations operate and support diverse groups.

Position Information

• Relocation assistance within the US will be provided for this position.
• This is a hybrid job in either: Wayzata, MN, Blair, NE or Wichita, KS.
• The work schedule is: Monday to Friday business hours.