Job Description:

Strategic Sourcing Specialist (Capital) - Your next role at Mars?

As the Strategic Sourcing Specialist (Capital), your primary responsibility is to oversee buying activities across multiple sites and segments within Mars. This involves ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality, risk management, and availability while adhering to commercial policies and processes.

Your focus lies in delivering a continuous supply of cost-effective, service-oriented, and timely CAPEX investments, covering various areas such as construction, equipment, machinery, automation, packaging, and processes.

This is a role can be based out of Guararema (São Paulo, Brazil) or Querérato, Mexico.

In this key role, you will work on...

- Lead sourcing activities for Capital investments, including construction, equipment, machinery, automation, packaging, and processes, ensuring alignment with business commitments and sourcing strategies.
- Deliver established savings targets, digital sourcing adoption, optimize the supplier data base and ensure compliance with Commercial policies and processes.
- Implement supply base strategy for multiple Mars manufacturing sites.
- Contract Management: non-disclosure agreements (NDA's), contract creation, contract extensions,



contract renewals and contract terminations.
- Support the implementation of general capital strategies and collaborate with category leaders, team members and peers to create synergies and maximize results.
- Actively participate in team meetings and establish periodic meetings with key stakeholders in the sites to align on priorities which sits under the Sourcing Excellence team areas of responsibility.

You?

- Complete Degree in Engineering, Business, Economics or related discipline.
- Advanced level of English is required, Spanish/Portuguese
- 4+ years of experience working with Procuremen is required, preferably in Capital or other factory related procurement areas
Contract management knowledge

What can you expect from Mars?

- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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📌 Specialist, Strategic Sourcing - Capital (Santiago de Querétaro)
🏢 Mars UK
📍 Santiago de Querétaro