**TITLE**:Manager, MRO Indirect
**LOCATION**:Guadalajara, Mexico
**REPORTS TO**:Director, Corporate Indirect, Global Procurement
**SUPERVISION**:Anticipated as one direct report within pool of Sourcing Associates
**As a Manager **your responsibilities will include**:
- Conduct a thorough assessment of the company’s total global spend on Indirect goods and services
- Assess the global market for relevant goods and services including trends, forecasts, risks, geopolitical effects, and supplier profiling
- Participate in the definition of a fully comprehensive category strategy for indirect goods and services
- Translate integral procurement strategy into detailed category plans with a set of measurable global, regional, and local targets
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction and avoidance that are attributable to the P&L; and able to be audited by a Finance stakeholder
- Execute on target opportunities by conducting strategic sourcing projects and supplier selection related activities using best practices and e-Sourcing tools
- As appropriate, lead the negotiation and development of key contracts through the effective partnering with the supplier, Legal, and the business stakeholder
- Manage designated key strategic supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and service. Conduct timely reviews with suppliers to measure performance against contractual standards and performance expectations
- Develop risk management strategies relating to potential supply disruptions including alternative sourcing options and product/service availability
- Help drive a supplier enablement strategy to maximize spend transacted through SAP Ariba Buying and Supply-Chain Collaboration




- Support the delivery of 100% digital cataloging of key procurement contracts
- Identify procurement processes and policies for alignment at the country, region, and global levels
- Provide business SME for future digital procurement platform deployments
**The Manager position **is well-suited for you if you**:
- Have experience in procurement within process manufacturing environments
- Self-directed with an ability to work remotely from direct manager
- Are organized with strong attention to detail
- Seek to deliver a laser-focus on your internal customers
- Possess a desire to manage multiple priorities and achieve results
- Have strong communication and interpersonal skills, build consensus, and foster positive relationships with team members and suppliers
- Enjoy a performance culture that values work intensity
- Possess an owner’s mindset and enjoy challenging the status quo
- A bachelor’s degree in business, supply management, engineering, life science, or other related discipline and 5-7 years of procurement/purchasing experience
- Technical, plant operation, and/or engineering experienced preferred
- Knowledge and understanding of purchasing practices, policies, and procedures; in-depth experience in using SAP Ariba as a value creating tool, SAP Fieldglass, and Powersteering




- Experience in international procurement / sourcing activities with a record of leading change and cost reduction in cross-cultural environments
- Experience in successfully managing multiple projects simultaneously with results consistent with management’s expectations
- A demonstrated history of successfully collaborating with multiple internal stakeholders
- A passion for managing and developing employees in alignment with company values
- An ability to multi-task
- Strong oral and written communication skills, be highly organized, and have excellent problem solving/decision making abilities
- Excellent analytical and financial acumen including cost modeling, budgeting, and forecasting
- Excellent skills within the Microsoft Office suite
What is the formula for a winning career?
It starts with joining a thought leader, innovator and true high performer, grounded in values and driven to innovate and advance. As a Fortune 500 global provider of ingredient solutions, Ingredion offer great careers across various functions - corporate, scientific, engineering, operations, sales, technical service, marketing and more. If you are curious, confident, and believe in the power of game-changing ideas, we want you to make us part of your career formula.
Successful: Grow with a leader. Ingredion is FORTUNE 500 company with consistently strong financial performance.
Responsible: Thrive with an organization that lives its values. We drive relentlessly toward sustainable practices and responsible operations wherever we do business.
Meaningful: Be proud of where you work and what you do. Ingredion enables innovation in foods, beverages and consumer products that touch lives around the world.
**Relocation Available**:
Yes, Within Country

📌 Strategic Sourcing Procurement Manager, Mro Indirect (Guadalajara)
🏢 Ingredion
📍 Guadalajara