Senior Sourcing and Operations Manager - Capital & Factory Services

at  Mars

JOB DESCRIPTION:

For generations, you and your family — including the four-legged members — have loved our brands, products and services. Our Associates are working to ensure that everything you know and love consistently evolves to deliver the best for your family. Now we have an exciting opportunity to be a critical part of contributing to continuing that vision within our procurement team.
Reporting directly to the Strategic Sourcing & Operations Director for ANZ, the Commercial Senior Manager of Capital & Factory Services will be responsible for execution of Capital and Factory Services strategies for all Mars Segments in ANZ. Fantastic opportunity to work with our diverse segments and stakeholders across Pet Nutrition, Mars Wrigley, Mars Food Nutrition and Multi sales segments in ANZ.

• Optimizing investments in terms of cost, quality, risk and availability in order to achieve best in class supplier agreements on behalf of Mars across all categories, while ensuring supplier performance and acting as the first point of contact for both suppliers and internal clients.
• Connect and align with other regional associates to implement at the local level relevant Global and Regional sourcing strategies - including by leveraging supplier relationships and strategic partnerships to drive innovation and standardization across regions and segments where feasible.
• Developing an annual execution plan (AEP) for significant category spend with a documented 3-5 year pipeline that is aligned to the business strategies.