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Job Description
Global Procurement Manager - Retail Negotiations
A dynamic role managing a retail procurement spend of $11 Billion across North America and Europe, requiring strategic negotiation and sourcing expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Negotiate and source large-scale, complex national retail contracts for circa. $100m+ in aggregate annual purchasing.
- Deliver procurement synergies by standardising efforts, finding unleveraged opportunities of scale, consolidating vendor partners & distribution points, and promoting business unit marketing refinements.
- Provide strategic and tactical category guidance on key categories, based on national trends, internal and external best practice, and company performance objectives.
- Establish cross-functional teams to diagnose, quantify, and address regional and national level opportunities and alternative revenue sources.
- Unite autonomous business units around common value-enhancing principles, new programs, and offerings, and relevant macro-level opportunities.
- Establish and maintain an effective and efficient communication process with VPs, Heads of Department, and Directors.
- Lead the effort to scale successful regional programs to multi-region or national status.
- Support the establishment of national benchmarks, performance markers, and objectives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Marketing, Economics, Int'l Business, or MBA.
- Min 5 years negotiation and contract management experience in related marketing and/or merchandising within a (B2C) retail environment.
- Multi-unit leadership experience in convenience store merchandising, operations, related retail with management experience ideally.
- Comprehensive knowledge of key financial principles (internal) and macroeconomic (external) and cost drivers (e.g. commodities indices).
- Advanced understanding of core marketing principles, including brand development/management, merchandising, pricing theory, and promotional strategies.
- Experience with market data analysis, interpretation, and research using tools like Power BI.
- Advanced Ariba, MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word preferred.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor the message and deliver to a wide range of internal stakeholders.
Rewards:
A comprehensive benefits package is available.