The role manages purchasing categories for indirect goods and services at a regional level, for marketing & Sales with the primary focus on strategy creation and execution to deliver long term competitive advantage by maximizing value for money and protecting the business He/she will be playing an active role in the design of regional and/or global best practices and will be the functional representative in the region, ensuring best practices knowledge management and implementation.
Must be able to sell in new concepts, approaches, and processes to executive leaders in simple way.
**What are we looking for?
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- Bachelors degree required, Masters degree preferred.
- 7+ years of professional experience, ideally with supplier/customer/sales management experience and financial acumen.
- Fluent in English necessary, Fluent in Portuguese necessary, Spanish would be a complimentary attribute.
**What will be your key responsibilities?
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- Develops and executes sourcing strategies using the MSSM framework and the appropriate tools for the market category (routine, leverage, bottleneck, critical)
- Is an active member of the Global Category Team and establishes and maintains working relationship with the Category Buying Managers across all regions to drive benchmarking and best practices
- Works collaboratively with Regional stakeholders for this category and other cross functional partners to develop and implement global standards.
- Develops and implements Local and regional contracts, trade terms and related Service Level Agreements for Distributor Services (securing best Cost to service, price, volume rebates, capacity & service levels in line with the needs and commitments to the business).
- Develops and maintains sustainable relationships with key suppliers and Distributors.
Tracks, monitors and drives key supplier performance indicators across cost, service and quality and puts corrective actions in place, when needed.
Acts as point of escalation
**What can you expect from Mars?
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- Work with over 130,000 like-minded 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.
- Best-in-class 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.