What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Specialist, Vendor Sourcing position at DoorDash USA?
About the Team
DashMart is a new team at DoorDash focused on building a new type of convenience store, offering both household essentials and local restaurant favorites to our customers’ doorsteps.
About the Role
We’re looking to hire a Vendor Sourcing Senior Specialist who will lead supplier sourcing and vendor initiatives for the DashMart business. The Senior Specialist will work closely with internal supply chain, inventory, and assortment team partners to support the business by managing vendor performance, deep diving key metrics, and communicating with both internal and external stakeholders on a daily basis.
Responsibilities
- Manage vendor relationships, analyze vendor performance, and work with vendors to improve defects
- Utilize tools such as Excel to dive deep and bridge metrics, and determine appropriate action plans to drive vendor performance
- Collaborate with category teams to understand new product types’ procurement needs
- Playbook and implement processes to identify, monitor, and mitigate exposure from vendor liability
About You
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Must have strong ownership mentality
- Must have proficiency with spreadsheets
- Must be extremely detail-oriented and organized
- Must have effective written and verbal communication skills
- 2 years of experience in Buying or Supply Chain preferred
Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash
- We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
- We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day.
- We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
- We are customer obsessed - Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
- We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
- We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis
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