As a senior sourcing manager, you will...
• Lead Strategic Sourcing & Business Growth: Develop and execute multi-year sourcing strategies that drive business growth, align with company objectives, and incorporate stakeholder needs, market insights, sustainability, ethical sourcing, and supplier diversity considerations.
• Deliver Value Through Supplier Partnerships: Build and execute value creation strategies by leveraging deep category expertise, supplier relationships, market intelligence, and innovation to drive cost savings, margin protection, operational excellence, and long-term business value.
• Ensure Supply Continuity & Risk Management: Lead contract negotiations, supplier performance management, and risk mitigation efforts to protect supply, strengthen supplier partnerships, and ensure resilient, compliant, and efficient supply chain operations.

We'd love to hear from people with:

Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary):
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred.
• Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 4+ years sourcing experience.

Skills (minimum skills required):
• Sourcing Foundations: Intermediate knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, should-cost' models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations.
• Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve.
• Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and senior management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• Project Management: Highly effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure. Proactively mitigates situations before they become issues.

Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to
change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder.
• Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (i.e. certificates), learning more about broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers.
• Other: Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data); also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.

As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year. Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools. Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor's degree through Arizona State University's online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities. You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement. Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies. This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative. For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.

*If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above. For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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