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Description

Effectively developing and leading global sourcing strategies, effectively managing suppliers and internal networks to deliver best in class performance for the relevant spending area. Consistently delivers measurable and strategic goals to enable a competitive advantage to bottom-line and topline company growth, and corporate social responsibility leadership. Collaborates effectively internally and with suppliers. Develop effective multiyear negotiation strategies to enable success. Leads highly complex cross functional global sourcing teams.

Team culture/work environment:

• Highly collaborative and interactive team

Key projects:

• Focuses on the E2E for laminated goods within Starbucks (bakery items)

• Coordinate and manage suppliers to ensure the supplier understands milestones, can translate concerns, and ensure all groups are aligned for the commercialized and finished goods.

• May have some development work regarding the launching of new products

• Main responsibility: ensuring supply, day-to-day work, acting as the bridge between external suppliers and Starbucks

• Supplier Management & Collaboration: Management of strategic and preferred suppliers. Cultivate partnerships with new and existing suppliers through the lens of Starbucks values, generating trust and transparency, in order to maximize mutual value and reduce risk. Professionally lead supplier key business reviews which demonstrate supplier growth and improvement, execute corrective action plans (as needed), and coach suppliers on understanding our business better.

• Supplier Enabled Innovation Management: Actively identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to match supplier's capabilities with internal business needs. Influence internal stakeholders to proactively engage with the suppliers on innovative concepts.

Protect Supply and Reduce Risk

• Contracting: Proficient knowledge to independently own and lead contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Skilled negotiation savvy and approaches supplier 'we' mindset. Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments.

• Risk Management: Protects the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risk. Take action to mitigate, reduce, and eliminate risk related to ethical sourcing, capacity, supplier financial, margin, and other identified risks. Instinctively balances risk and certainty.

Interaction level with team:

• Highly interactive

• High volume of meetings

• Cross functional with a variety of teams and external suppliers to help ensure and move along the process where needed while keeping all parties aligned and moving towards the completion.

Technology requirements?:

• SmartSheets

• Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data)

• (Nice to have, can be trained on) also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.

Degree or certifications required?:

• Degree required, 4 years degree in a relevant field

Years experience?:

• 6-10 years of experience, The more experience the better

Required background ? Skills?

• Understanding cost structure

• Business savvy, ability to validate and benchmark as needed

• Food or similar experience

• Sourcing Foundations: Intermediate knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations.

• Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve.

• Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and senior management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.

• Project Management: Highly effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure. Proactively mitigates situations before they become issues.

• Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder.

• Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management.

• Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (i.e. certificates), learning more about the broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Food background

• Someone who’s worked in a large highly matrixed company similar to Starbucks

• Prior Starbucks exp in a similar sourcing manager compacity

Skills

Procurement, Purchasing, Supplier negotiation, Contract negotiation, Strategic sourcing, microsoft suite, food industry, tableau

Top Skills Details

Procurement,Purchasing,Supplier negotiation,Contract negotiation,Strategic sourcing,microsoft suite,food industry

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Daily Responsibilities:

Shaping the Business

• Strategy: Develops, owns, and executes effective, comprehensive multi-year category sourcing strategies that enable bottom-line and top-line company growth, through the incorporation of data-driven insights, stakeholder needs, and business objectives. Strategies shape stakeholder thinking. Strategies shall address corporate social responsibility as it pertains to supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and sustainability, where applicable. Has previous experience managing more than one type of category/industry, stakeholders, and suppliers.

• Portfolio Management: Effectively manages the portfolio of projects and deadlines. Independently solves problems and make decisions to ensure successful execution of the project. Provides oversight, guidance, and drives completion of project plans. Documents post-mortems when necessary. Provide oversight, guidance and drives execution of project plans.

• Business Case Development: Creates business cases to drive sourcing strategies/initiatives that present the opportunity to shape the business. Obtains alignment for ideas by creating detailed and workable proposals, considering strategic, commercial, economic, financial, and organizational impacts.

Drive Value

• Value Stewardship: Consistently build a value pipeline and execute plans by leveraging relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to identify and drive value. Deep knowledge of category and supplier spend, as well as the key cost drivers of the product/service. Evaluate market trends and key cost drivers to identify, implement and track cost savings. Leverage the value analysis insights and incorporate them into strategies for implementation. Analyze complex supplier proposals and use decision-making tools and models including financial and non-financial criteria to facilitate award recommendations. Value is defined as cost savings, supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, innovation, and margin protection.

Experience Level

Expert Level

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $62.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Seattle,WA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 26, 2025.

About Aston Carter:

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email [email protected] (%[email protected]) for other accommodation options.