Strategic Sourcing Manager - Digital Technologies

Mars; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contract of employment

Business bonus and Christmas bonus

Life insurance

Private medical care

Employee Assistance Program (Mars)

MultiBenefit Program

Subsidized meals

Long-term savings plan

Employee discounts on Mars products

Volunteering initiatives during work

Job summary

Mars is seeking a Global Strategic Sourcing Manager for Digital Demand/Digital Experience and Food & Nutrition categories. The role drives strategic sourcing, category management, contract governance, supplier relationships, and cost optimization across SaaS, implementation partners, and professional services.

You will partner with the Senior Sourcing Manager and Buyers to develop sub-category buying strategies within Digital Technologies and to optimize resources globally, leveraging supplier

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 3-5 years of procurement experience.
• Experience sourcing IT solutions and digital platforms (UX/UI, APIs, data analytics, AI/ML) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement supply base strategy with global scope.
• Manage supplier governance and performance auditing with 50+ suppliers.
• Oversee $125M+ annual spend.
• Lead end-to-end RFPs and supplier qualification.
• Collaborate with Technology Category Sourcing Managers and cross-functional partners.

Skills

Relationship building with suppliers

Contract management

Stakeholder engagement

S sourcing strategy development

Vendor evaluation & benchmarking

Negotiation

Verbal and written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Description

Global Strategic Sourcing Manager for Digital Demand/Digital Experience and the Food & Nutrition categories. The role focuses on strategic sourcing/procurement duties, category management, contract management, supplier relationship management, cost optimization, familiarity with procurement tools and platforms, and strategic alignment with commercial objectives. This role encompasses end to end commercial management of SaaS, implementation partners, and professional services providers, ensuring tight strategic alignment with our broader Commercial objectives.

Acting as a critical driver of our digital transformation, this role will partner closely with the Senior Sourcing Manager and two Sourcing Excellence Buyers to drive development & implementation of sub-category buying strategies within Digital Technologies commercial team and co-pilot optimization of resources. You'll manage digital sub-categories such as eCommerce (B2B, B2C) Content (DAM, PIM, PXM), Digital Experience Platform, Data Lake (CDP), Digital Demand Engineering, Food & Nutrition initiatives, emerging strategic partnership with Salesforce as well as emerging digital trends at both regional and global initiatives by leveraging supplier relationships, while also driving standardization and automation. Ownership of sub-category spend on a global basis will be key, as will heavy cross-functional collaboration and close partnership with key stakeholders. Another primary responsibility of this role is to bring the Chief Procurement Officer's 2030 ambitions to life, actively driving her strategy to deliver aggressive cost reduction and optimization across our core SaaS tools.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Recommend and Implement supply base strategy, Including assessing and developing suppliers.
• Manage supplier governance, including strategic relationship with Salesforce and 50+ additional suppliers, as well as supplier performance auditing.
• Direct oversight of $125M+ In spend.
• Manages benchmarking, end-to-end RFP activity and drives the qualification and implementation of new suppliers to support a competitive landscape.
• Works collaboratively and partners closely with other Technology Category Sourcing Managers and key stakeholders within the Digital Demand/Food & Nutrition organization and cross functional partners to ensure visibility, alignment and the brilliant execution on the sourcing and strategic buying initiatives and supply base.
• Analyzes supplier service levels and KPIs to drive the right behaviors with suppliers.
• Develop continuous improvement action plan and executes. Monitors change and adjusts plan as needed to sustain performance results.
• Secures price, capacity & service levels in line with commitments to the business.
• Ensures effective risk management of the supply base, through robust contracts and monitoring of financial and other KPIs. Implements corrective actions as appropriate.
• Establishes & maintains relationships with key stakeholders in Richie Dartois, Jason Thomstatter, Balki Subramanian, Frederic Meneguzzi and their teams to ensure understanding of their needs and to facilitate the appropriate level of challenge.
• Complies with internal Mars policies, systems & controls.
• Communicates business risk & opportunity to Commercial Leadership
• Understands and Implements industry best practice for areas of responsibility. Participates in team knowledge transfer.
• Participates in external forums and associations.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree at a minimum
• 3-5 years of Procurement experience.
• A passion for developing strong relationships with supplier and cross functional stakeholders both domestically and internationally.
• Project & activity management with a high attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• MSA and contractual paperwork review, lead/drive teams such as Legal and Infosec when negotiating with partners.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships at all levels of the organization including senior level (difficult situations, large groups), and suppliers.
• Previous experience with sourcing IT solutions along with a practical understanding of concepts such as UX/UI, APIs, data analytics, AI/ML etc.
• Key supporting competencies: Customer Focus; Problem solving; Priority setting; Drive for results; Conflict management
• Key functional competencies: Stakeholder Engagement (advanced); Sourcing Strategy Development (essential); Supplier Relationship Management (essential); Effective Sourcing (advanced); Legal Contracting (essential)

What can you expect from us?

• Contract of employment.
• Attractive financial conditions with Business Bonus and Christmas Bonus.
• We will also look after your safety and well-being by offering you rich benefits package including life insurance, private medical care, Employee Assistance Program fully covered by Mars, MultiBenefit Program.
• Subsidized meals.
• Extra savings scheme to support You in long perspective.
• Support in career building through personalized development plan.
• On-line & On-site shop with attractive discounts on our products that Your family and friend are going to love.
• Possibility to participate in volunteering initiatives during working hours.