Lead Category Sourcing - Global Ingredients
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The Direct Procurement team works with all areas of Supply Chain Functions to identify opportunities to improve cost, process improvements, profitability, cost containment, and optimize sourcing opportunities. This role will be focused on Manufacturing procurement.

What You Can Expect
Lead Sourcing Market analysis, risk mitigation, supplier innovation, and value delivery in designated categories while adhering to standardized B‑F Strategic Sourcing policies and procedures.

Create and implement integral category sourcing strategies with senior category management, coordinate with regional and local sourcing resources as needed,



and build stakeholder alignment.

Work closely with key internal customers across the organization to develop effective cost‑reduction strategies while meeting specification standards.

Support ongoing supplier selection and evaluation processes and negotiate and implement major commercial agreements, resolving supplier disputes while maintaining a high standard of ethics.

Lead key supplier development and improvement efforts with a focus on supplier efficiencies, accuracy and Supplier Diversity. Maintain performance metrics for each category and supplier, building equitable strategic supplier relationships.

Translate financial analysis into strategies, actions, and results, and prepare annual budget/pricing forecasts for global categories.

Participate in and support Global innovation projects. Partner with teams and stakeholders to define long‑term vision, create processes/vendor practi

📌 Lead Category Sourcing (Estado de México)
🏢 Brown-Forman Australia
📍 Estado de México