Strategic Sourcing Manager - Marketing

Strategic Sourcing Manager - Marketing Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and manage category strategies and roadmaps for the Marketing Production category in support of the business’ short-term and long-term plans
• Build and strengthen cross functional partner relationships across Marketing, Source-to-Pay, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to identify, develop and deploy best practice supplier management, procurement and category management practices
• Leverage industry experts, associations, peers and stakeholders to identify and benchmark best practices
• Establish Marketing Preferred Suppliers program and performance KPIs to channel spend appropriately and hold suppliers accountable to performance
• Develop healthy and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to strategically manage spend
• Analyze spend data, internal requirements, and external supply markets to develop strategic sourcing strategies and plans aligned with the business goals
• Manage complex sourcing projects and lead contract negotiations that optimize value to the company
• Build/establish strategic relationships with key suppliers
• Identify and report key performance metrics to measure success and drive continuous improvement ensuring alignment with sourcing plans
• Serve as a procurement SME to key stakeholders by identifying their critical business requirements and providing procurement services to meet/exceed their expectations
• Perform user and supplier compliance audits as appropriate
• Provide regular communication and training on processes and systems
• Prepare sourcing documents, contracts, statements of work and related procurement documents
• Perform the supplier management function in collaboration with the business
• Develop healthy partnerships with Marketing Operations, FP&A, and Legal teams
• Negotiate production costs and perform production bid review to ensure costs are inline with the scope and industry

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Advertising, Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Finance or Management
• 6 years Marketing Sourcing Category Management developing and implementing category plans for Marketing, Creative, and Production services (planning, sourcing, negotiating, contracting and supplier management)
• Experience in negotiating a variety of marketing related agreements including but not limited to creative, production, general marketing and advertising professional services, and events
• Experience thinking strategically and operationally to solve business challenges
• Experience with complex data analysis and making recommendations on sourcing opportunities (Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel and Tableau financial modeling)
• Highly motivated and proactive individual that has demonstrated the skills necessary in order to navigate and lead projects in a fast-paced environment to achieve high levels of performance and deliver sustainable results to the team
• Experience with business case development and executive presence to influence for change that drives efficiency
• Experience managing multiple priorities on short timelines across a distributed global team
• In-depth understanding of marketing operations, including systems, tools, and the agency landscape
• Advanced partnership and relationship building skills to understand stakeholders’ motivations and priorities in order to develop productive working relationships
• Experience partnering with Marketing and Production teams to drive efficiency projects with both large global agencies and production companies, as well as smaller boutique firms, and managing those relationships from a Sourcing perspective

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a Producer and/or Production Consultant with understanding of the full production process across all media [live action video, digital websites and applications, print/OOH, animation and photography through localization, delivery and archiving.
• Experience working in a fast paced, scrappy environment, thriving amidst ambiguity while ensuring flawless execution.
• Experience developing transformational projects that require high-level change management and influencing with executive leaders.

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