Associate Sourcing Manager - Private Brands

7-Eleven Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

7-Eleven Inc. is seeking an Associate Sourcing Manager to support Private Brands and Fresh Food sourcing, including data/spend analysis, RFx development, and supplier management.

You will work with Product Development, Supply Chain, and Legal to improve cost, quality, service, and risk compliance. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree, and strong financial modeling and MS Office skills to analyze proposals and benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build and analyze financial models for proposals and cost scenarios.
• Strong organizational skills with knowledge of legal aspects, negotiating terms, and contract administration.
• Experience in private brands, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, or retail sourcing.
• Understanding of logistics, route to market, production lead times, and material specs for retail products.

Responsibilities

• Execute sourcing processes for assigned categories, including data/spend analysis, market research, scoping, bidding, contract support, compliance, and supplier management.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to support sourcing execution and goals.
• Support development and execution of RFx/sourcing events, including supplier discovery, bid analysis, scenario modeling, stakeholder feedback, and negotiation preparation.
• Support contract development, negotiations, and renewals with suppliers, partnering with Legal and sourcing leadership on pricing and performance measures.

Skills

Financial modeling

Negotiation

Sourcing processes

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

As the Associate Sourcing Manager, you will support sourcing activities and processes for Private Brands and/or Fresh Food categories. This includes requirements gathering, spend and market analysis, RFx development and execution, proposal evaluation, supplier capability assessment, contract support, supplier onboarding, and ongoing supplier management. This role supports Sourcing Managers, Directors, and cross-functional business partners in executing sourcing plans that improve cost, quality, service, speed to market, and risk management while ensuring compliance with 7-Eleven sourcing policies and processes.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

• Execute 7-Eleven sourcing processes for assigned categories, including data and spend analysis, market research, scoping, bidding, contract support, compliance, and supplier management activities.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with Product Development, Supply Chain, Legal, and other cross-functional stakeholders to support sourcing execution and business goals.
• Support development and execution of RFx/sourcing events, including supplier discovery, bid analysis, scenario modeling, stakeholder feedback, and negotiation preparation.

• Support contract development, negotiations, and renewals with suppliers, partnering with Legal and sourcing leadership on pricing, performance measures, service requirements, supplier accountability, remedies, termination options, and total cost of ownership while reducing risk.
• Research potential domestic and international suppliers and support evaluation of supplier capability, capacity, lead times, compliance readiness, cost structure, and fit for assigned business needs.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions with stakeholders, provide clear progress updates, and help translate sourcing priorities into actionable next steps.
• Build and analyze financial models, including proposal comparisons, cost scenarios, market benchmarks, and supplier recommendations, and present findings in a clear and concise format.

KEY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• Understand leadership direction, company strategy, and category priorities, and translate them into clear sourcing actions, project support, and stakeholder follow-through.
• Use data, market insight, supplier information, and stakeholder input to assess business needs, identify root causes, develop practical solutions, and make informed recommendations.
• Communicate sourcing updates, analysis, risks, and recommendations clearly, tailoring the level of detail to the audience and making complex topics easy to understand.
• Ability to work well with business stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-functional partners in a fast-paced, self-directed environment.
• Adapt to changing business needs, learn new category details quickly, identify dependencies, and help create clarity around sourcing priorities, timelines, and next steps.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) strongly preferred.

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: Minimum of 3+ years required

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Demonstrated ability to build and analyze financial models to evaluate proposal scenarios, cost impacts, market benchmarks, landed cost considerations, and supplier recommendations.
• Strong organizational skills and foundational understanding of legal aspects, negotiating skills, purchasing terminology, cost analysis, supplier compliance, and contract administration.
• Experience in Private Brands, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, fresh food, food service, retail merchandising, and/or food packaging.
• A clear understanding of logistics, route to market, production lead times, and material specifications around retail product and food packaging.
• Exposure to domestic and/or import sourcing concepts preferred, including lead-time planning, landed cost components, tariff and duty impacts, logistics handoffs, supplier compliance, and broker or trading partner models.
• Proficient with MS Office suite, including Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint; ability to use data, templates, and reporting tools to support sourcing decisions and stakeholder updates.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate with internal stakeholders, team members, suppliers, and cross-functional partners.

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If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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