Procurement Specialist managing day - to - day sourcing and supplier relationships in a robotics startup. Transitioning from tactical procurement to full operations leadership.
About the role
- Senior Sourcing Manager leading MRO strategies at Mars Global Services, optimizing supplier relationships, and delivering value through innovative category management.
Responsibilities
- Develop and institutionalize an enterprise wide global category sourcing strategy for the MRO spend $200M in Mars, ensuring E2E capabilities are defined/developed and sourced to deliver 3-5 year pipeline of value creation, innovation and growth requirements X-SEG and X-REG
- Accountable, with the Regional teams to deliver the value creation for the MRO category of spend, in terms of P&L impact, cost avoidance, cash and contribution to the productivity programs of each Segment
- Manage the relationships internally with X-SEG SUPPLY to develop strategies that not only deliver savings but also drive innovation through excellence in category management
- Create and maintain partnership with the key global stakeholders, region commercial heads, region category directors and X-SEG X-functional leaders ensuring alignment with the long term business strategies as well as annual operating plans
- Responsible for the relationships with global & critical regional suppliers to drive SRM for delivery of evolving quality and cost improvement as well as develop supplier enabled innovations & continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Economics, Science, or Supply Chain
- MRO expertise is essential — proven experience, knowledge, and capability within the MRO category is required
- Minimum 6+ years of global or regional MRO sourcing experience
- Strong supplier capability knowledge and end-to-end supply chain understanding
- Demonstrated success in roles of similar scope and complexity; prior people management experience leading high-performing teams
- Strong leadership, change management, and project management skills
- Proven ability to make sound decisions in complex or ambiguous environments; track record of building strong internal stakeholder and supplier partnerships
- Experience working cross-regionally and in multicultural environments.
Benefits
- Medical and dental benefits
- Participation in 401k plan
- Paid time off
- Company bonus
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