job description:

are you passionate about strategic procurement and have proven experience driving large scale industrial, machinery, and factory projects? This opportunity is for you!

at mars , we are looking for a specialist, strategic sourcing – capital (sourcing excellence) to lead capital expenditure (capex) sourcing across regional and general sites, managing high-impact investment projects and collaborating with cross-functional engineering and commercial teams across north america, latin america, and europe.

purpose

as the specialist, strategic sourcing – sourcing excellence, your primary responsibility is to oversee buying activities across multiple sites and segments within mars americas. 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.

key responsibilities:

- lead end to end sourcing activities for capex 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 within north america.
- contract management:



non-disclosure agreements (nda's), contract creation, contract extensions, contract renewals and contract terminations.
- support the implementation of global capex 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.

education & professional qualification

- college degree in engineering, business, economics, and others.
- ideally you will have around 5 years' commercial or purchasing experience, preferably in the areas of capex or other indirect buying which is factory related.
- contract management knowledge.
- excellent stakeholder management skills.
- fluent english
- fluent spanish
- advanced portuguese *highly desirable
(this role will manage local stakeholders in the usa, canada, argentina, mexico and brasil).

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. Find out more about what mars can offer you by visiting our global careers site.

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