Senior Global Procurement Operations and Strategy

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

Job summary

Mars is seeking a Procurement Operations Sr Specialist - Raws in Chicago to partner with Senior Procurement leadership to develop and implement category buying strategies. You will manage regional and global procurement operations, leveraging supplier relationships while driving standardization and automation across the network.

You will lead buying strategy execution, supplier benchmarking, RFPs, and supplier qualification, and analyze supplier performance to generate insights.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of procurement experience.
• Strong stakeholder and supplier relationship management skills, domestically and internationally.
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Buying strategy will be your wheelhouse – where one exists you will execute and optimize it. If one does not exist it will be your responsibility to develop the strategy and subsequently implement it.
• You’ll manage suppler benchmarking, RFPs and new supplier qualification.
• Analyzing existing supplier performance will also fall to you, as will generating supplier insights from analyzing data and KPIs that are in place.
• Oversight of ($100m+) of spend annually.

Skills

Procurement experience

Stakeholder management

Supplier relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Mars is seeking a Procurement Operations Sr Specialist - Raws in Chicago to partner with Senior Procurement leadership to develop and implement category buying strategies. You will manage regional and global procurement operations, leveraging supplier relationships while driving standardization and automation across the network.

You will lead buying strategy execution, supplier benchmarking, RFPs, and supplier qualification, and analyze supplier performance to generate insights.