Indirect Sourcing Manager II

<strong>Retail Business Services currently provides services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop &amp; Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the scale of the local brands to drive synergies and provide industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued.</strong>

Carlisle, PA

Retail Business Services

<strong>Retail Business Services currently provides services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop &amp; Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the scale of the local brands to drive synergies and provide industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued.<br /></strong> https://www.retailbusinessservices.com/

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Full Time - Hybrid

N/A

Overview: Retail Business Services is the services company of leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, currently providing services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop &amp; Shop.
Responsibilities: <br /> <ul> <li>Provide leadership and oversight for an assigned category spend of $500M - $1B with a goal of lowering total cost of ownership for our company.<BR>Responsible for reducing cost to acquire goods and services that are not-for-resale.<BR>Establishes processes, procedures and policies for the handling of INDIRECT COE purchasing within the organization while supporting stakeholders needs.<BR>This includes sourcing, vendor negotiation and vendor relationship and performance management.<BR>Core category understanding and knowledge.<BR>Manage and balance needs between quality, cost, service, sustainability, and innovation.<BR>Seek out new opportunities to improve in each of these areas as an agent of change.</li> <li>Collaborate with Indirect COE peers to ensure team moves further down the continuum to being a world class sourcing organization, identify and implement cost savings across the INDIRECT COE categories within this position's scope of responsibility to provide funding for reinvestment in the growth of our business.<BR>Develop and grow team resources ensuring an understanding of best practices in sourcing including spend analytics, negotiation, supplier management, the use of technology and total cost management.</li> <li>Building Teams: Talent acquisition and development- participate in the selection, development and preparation of a team comprised of Sourcing Managers and Senior Sourcing Analysts for current and future leadership roles/opportunities in INDIRECT COE sourcing categories specific to addressable areas of INDIRECT COE spend servicing business stakeholders sourcing needs.<BR>Collaborate with Director in the strategic planning of department&rsquo;s workload and coordinate priorities, working with various business stakeholder to ensure resources are deployed appropriately to realize savings opportunities through local, ADUSA and Global sourcing initiatives.</li> <li>Responsible for planning, managing and executing against annual and LTP strategic INDIRECT COE sourcing calendar consisting of an average of 50 projects annually to deliver annual cost savings equal or greater than targets defined between INDIRECT COE leadership and Executive Leadership.<BR>Contribute significantly to the attainment if ADUSA's financial and operational annual goals.</li> <li>This leadership position will collaborate with Senior Management to identify unaddressed spend and work with the VP and SVP owners of the spend to obtain support and approvals to build teams of business stakeholder representatives and move forward with sourcing initiatives.</li> <li>This leadership position will collaborate with Senior Management to identify unaddressed spend and work with the VP and SVP owners of the spend to obtain support and approvals to build teams of business stakeholder representatives and move forward with sourcing initiatives.</li> <li>Develop a continuous comprehensive multi-year strategy to achieve our long-term INDIRECT COE goals in defined INDIRECT COE categories.<BR>Execute against continuous improvement model for how we will manage INDIRECT COE over the long term.<BR>This includes evaluating performance relative to financial, risk management, productivity measurements, and the marketplace.</li> </ul>
Requirements: Basic Requirement: <br /> <ul> <li>5 -7 Years of experience</li> <li>Skills and Abilities:</li> <li>Oral and/or written communication skills</li> <li>Presentation skills</li> <li>Attention to detail</li> <li>Negotiation skills</li> <li>Customer focus</li> <li>Initiative</li> </ul>