category sourcing manager, Facilities (Nashville HQ)

Starbucks Corp.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) plan with employer match

Tuition assistance (Starbucks College)

Job summary

Starbucks Corp. in Nashville is seeking a senior Category Sourcing Manager for Facilities to shape strategic initiatives across direct and indirect categories.

The role emphasizes leadership, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver value. The position requires 10+ years of sourcing experience, strong negotiation and contract management skills, and expertise in Power BI or Tableau for supplier performance analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or related fields preferred.
• 10+ years sourcing experience preferred.
• Strong negotiation, leadership and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead key, complex category sourcing initiatives across direct and indirect categories.
• Develop contracts, negotiate terms, and manage supplier relationships.
• Identify risks and drive actions to protect supply and create value.

Skills

Category Sourcing

Contract Negotiation

Excel & Analytics

Stakeholder Management

Power BI & Tableau

Supply Chain Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SAP Ariba

Oracle ERS

Job description

Now Brewing – category sourcing manager, Facilities! #tobeapartner

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.

As a category sourcing manager, you will…

Shaping the Business

Strategy Architect: Leads key, complex sourcing initiatives that require the ability to exhibit broad sourcing subject matter expertise across both direct and indirect categories. Employs deep knowledge and sourcing experience and applies it to unique situations and opportunities for the business. Provides consultative sourcing support and thought leadership across the sourcing organization, drawing upon experience from direct and indirect sourcing.

Drive Value

Value Architect: Leverages best practices, structured problem solving to break down complex problems, identify solutions and align business to recommendations. Brings out of the box thinking to reimagine a way to reshape the way the business is thinking about the future. Reengineering current processes from foundational state to future vision state. Employs expert knowledge of market dynamics to identify both risk and opportunity.

Protect Supply and Reduce Risk

Contract Architect: Leveraging excellent knowledge of legal terms and contracting best practices leads the development, architecting and negotiations of complex deal structures, such as outsource models. 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

Lead key initiatives to enhance protection of 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.

We’d love to hear from people with:

• Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary): Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred.
• Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 10+ years sourcing experience preferred.

Skills (minimum skills required):

• Sourcing Foundations: Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms, RFXs, market analysis, should-cost’ models, building and delivering multi-year-value pipelines and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Help 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. Strong acumen for coping with different business situations in a professional manner via obtaining essential information, focus on key objectives, recognize options available for solving problems, selecting the right approach to overcome obstacles, and set plans in motion to achieve execution.
• Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and all management levels on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• Project Management: Strong acumen for coping with different business situations in a professional manner via obtaining essential information, focus on key objectives, recognize options available for solving problems, selecting the right approach to overcome obstacles, and set plans in motion to achieve execution.
• 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. Ability to effectively use different types of influencing styles.
• 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 and executive leadership 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 (certificates), learning more about the broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers.
• Other: Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data); also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Anticipate others' perspectives based on their role, level, and body language. Response to change is to consciously move through acceptance, adoption, and internalization.
• Subject Matter Expertise: 10+ years in Sourcing or Procurement for Facilities and MRO services
• Communications: Skilled storyteller in answer-first style
• Command: Own and drive high-visibility outcomes and steer cross-functional initiatives with credible conviction

As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year. Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools. Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities. You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement. Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies. This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative. For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.

If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above. For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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