Sourcing Manager – Nuts (Europe)

Bournville, Birmingham
Mondelez International
Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

The Sourcing Specialist supports the development of Spend Area practices for Peanuts, Dried Grapes and Specialty nuts, including sourcing strategy execution, and stakeholder management, to maximize the total value of ownership for the organization. This person works closely with the regional business and global Spend Area teams to facilitate best practice sharing and drive advantaged cost, quality, service, and compliance to the organization.

How you will contribute

• Support regional/global strategy development and planning
• Analyze regional spend data and understand the business needs.
• Provide regional market and supplier insights to maximize opportunities.
• Develop sourcing strategy with implications on the region (e.g. productivity, cash, revenue).
• Support the supplier negotiation strategy at country, regional, or global level.
• Support strategy alignment and execution for regional and local Spend Areas
• Strategy communication and alignment with regional and local cross functional teams.
• Prepare and plan for any of the regional bids, and co-lead regional or global negotiations.
• Actively engage in local key initiatives (aggregate demand, construct bid packages, and support sourcing through suppliers around the region) especially negotiations to ensure value levers are effectively played.
• Project prioritization and securing resources for implementation.
• Support contract implementation and drive contract compliance as per globally agreed Procurement policies for selected global and multi-regional Spend Areas
• Work in close collaboration with regional and local Procurement operations in order to ensure local acceptance of new contracts, and extended
  value generation to increase customer satisfaction.
• Coordinate contract implementation tasks with regional and local Procurement operations and users.
• Closely monitor internal customers’ contract compliance and define and take approved corrective actions to improve contract compliance.
• Secure knowledge transfer and exchange by creating and storing project deliverables and relevant tools and templates in knowledge repositories.

What you will bring

• Relevant work experience and ideally you will hold a University degree
• A strong background in procurement or supply chain
• Knowledge of procurement buying and negotiation
• Be a confident communicator with project management experience

More about this role

Work schedule: 100%

Location: Bournville (UK) or Warsaw (Poland)

The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We are leading the future of snacking with mouth-watering iconic brands such as Oreo , belVita , LU and Ritz biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk , Green & Blacks , Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Philadelphia and Dairylea cheese; and Maynards Bassetts , Trebor and Trident gums. Our more than 80,000 colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

Regular

Procurement Operations

Procurement