Bakery Sr. Sourcing Manager

[Job Description]

Globally recognized Coffee Company headquartered in Seattle, WA is currently hiring for a Sr. Sourcing Manager for their Bakery Goods. This position will start off as a 6-month contract. This position will be a hybrid position in Seattle, WA requiring 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.

Effectively developing and leading global sourcing strategies, effectively managing suppliers and internal networks to deliver best in class performance for the relevant spending area. Consistently delivers measurable and strategic goals to enable a competitive advantage to bottom-line and topline company growth, and corporate social responsibility leadership. Collaborates effectively internally and with suppliers. Develop effective multiyear negotiation strategies to enable success. Leads highly complex cross-functional global sourcing teams.

Pay - $50/hr. - $62/hr. (Depending on overall relevant qualifications, industry, tenure...etc.)

Location - Seattle, WA (hybrid; 3 days onsite / 2 days remote)

Schedule – Standard Monday - Friday Morning Shift (40 Hours a Week)

Contract Duration – 6 Months

W2 Employment Through Aston Carter

[Key Projects]

• Focuses on the E2E for laminated goods bakery items.
  • Focusing on bakery items for Canada. Mainly seeing if they can locally source the baked goods.
• Coordinate and manage suppliers to ensure the supplier understands milestones, can translate concerns, and ensure all groups are aligned for the commercialized and finished goods.
• May have some development work regarding the launching of new products
• Main responsibility: ensuring supply, day-to-day work, acting as the bridge between external suppliers and the company.

[Summary of Key Responsibilities]

• Supplier Management & Collaboration: Management of strategic and preferred suppliers. Cultivate partnerships with new and existing suppliers through the lens of company's values, generating trust and transparency, in order to maximize mutual value and reduce risk. Professionally lead supplier key business reviews which demonstrate supplier growth and improvement, execute corrective action plans (as needed), and coach suppliers on understanding our business better.
• Supplier Enabled Innovation Management: Actively identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to match supplier's capabilities with internal business needs. Influence internal stakeholders to proactively engage with the suppliers on innovative concepts.
• Protect Supply and Reduce Risk
• Contracting: Proficient knowledge to independently own and lead contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Skilled negotiation savvy and approaches supplier 'we' mindset. Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments.
• Risk Management: Protects the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risk. Take action to mitigate, reduce, and eliminate risk related to ethical sourcing, capacity, supplier financial, margin, and other identified risks. Instinctively balances risk and certainty.

[Qualification Requirements]

• 6-10 years of experience in sourcing / procurement.
• Food & Beverage industry experience required.
• Smartsheet
• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience with BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, PowerBI, or Tableau (bonus preferred skills but all trainable)

[Employee Value Proposition]

• Exceptional opportunity to join one of the globally recognized and largest coffee companies.
• This role is central and technical within the company. A great role for individuals who want to be plugged into what is going on. This role offers exciting work with local partnerships. Meaningful work. Broad cross-functional. Work-life balance can’t be beat.