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Job Description
Manage a retail procurement spend of $11 Billion dollars across North America and Europe, negotiating large scale contracts and delivering procurement synergies.
A great opportunity to work with a dynamic team, managing a retail procurement spend of $11 Billion dollars across North America and Europe. Your role will involve:
- Negotiating and sourcing for large scale, complex national retail contracts for circa $100m+ in aggregate annual purchasing.
- Delivering procurement synergies for the company network, by standardising efforts, finding opportunities of scale, consolidating vendor partners & distribution points, challenging current business models, & promoting business unit marketing refinements.
- Providing strategic & tactical category guidance on key categories, based on national trends, internal & external best practice, & company performance objectives.
- Establishing cross functional teams to diagnose, quantify & address regional & national level opportunities & alternative revenue sources.
- Uniting autonomous business units around common value enhancing principles, new programs & offerings, & relevant macro level opportunities.
- Establishing & maintaining an effective, efficient, communication process to & with VPs, Heads of Department & Directors.
- Leading the effort to scale successful regional programs to multi region or national status.
- Supporting the establishment of national benchmarks, performance markers & objectives.
- Working in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, team-oriented environment, prioritising quickly & efficiently to rapidly changing needs & situations.
- Demonstrating great organisational skills.
Your Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Marketing, Economics, business, MBA but combinations of related experience & education will also be considered.
- Min 5 years negotiation & contract management in related marketing &/or merchandising - within a (B2 C) retail environment.
- Multi-unit leadership experience in convenience store merchandising, operations, related retail with management experience ideally.
- Comprehensive knowledge of key financial principles (internal) & macroeconomic (external) & cost drivers (ex: commodities indices).
- Advanced understanding of core marketing principles, including brand development/management, merchandising, pricing theory, & promotional strategies.
- Experience with market data analysis, interpretation, & research using tools like Power BI.
- Advanced Ariba, MS Outlook, Excel, Power Point, & Word preferred.
- Exceptional oral & written communication skills, with the ability to tailor the message & deliver to a wide range of internal stakeholders.