Global Procurement Operations Lead — Strategy & Savings

Mars Incorporated; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 71,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars Incorporated is seeking a Procurement Operations Senior Specialist - Raws to partner with the Senior Procurement Manager and Buying Managers to drive development and implementation of category buying strategies. You will manage regional and global procurement operations, leveraging supplier relationships and driving standardization and automation across the network.

The role requires 3+ years in procurement, strong stakeholder and supplier relationship skills, and a bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of procurement experience.
• Strong stakeholder and supplier relationship management skills.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute category buying strategies, optimizing where they exist and creating them where they don’t.
• Manage supplier benchmarking, RFPs and new supplier qualification.
• Analyze supplier performance and generate actionable insights from data and KPIs.
• Oversee $100M+ annual spend.

Skills

Procurement experience

Stakeholder management

Supplier management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Mars Incorporated is seeking a Procurement Operations Senior Specialist - Raws to partner with the Senior Procurement Manager and Buying Managers to drive development and implementation of category buying strategies. You will manage regional and global procurement operations, leveraging supplier relationships and driving standardization and automation across the network.

The role requires 3+ years in procurement, strong stakeholder and supplier relationship skills, and a bachelor’s degree.