Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager – MRO
Mars
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • Tennessee • United States
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Salary
💰 $119,040 - $163,680 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop and institutionalize an enterprise-wide global category sourcing strategy for the MRO spend $200M in Mars, ensuring E2E capabilities are defined/developed and sourced to deliver 3–5-year pipeline of value creation, innovation and growth requirements X-SEG and X-REG
- Accountable, with the regional teams to deliver the value creation for the MRO category of spend, in terms of P&L impact, cost avoidance, cash and contribution to the productivity programs of each Segment
- Manage the relationships internally with X-SEG SUPPLY to develop strategies that not only deliver savings but also drive innovation through excellence in category management
- Create and maintain partnership with the key global stakeholders, region commercial heads, region category directors and X-SEG X-functional leaders ensuring alignment with the long-term business strategies as well as annual operating plans
- Responsible for the relationships with global & critical regional suppliers to drive SRM for delivery of evolving quality and cost improvement as well as develop supplier enabled innovations & continuous improvement
- Develop Category insights & benchmark, cross pollenate best practices within MGS Commercial & Supply across segments ensuring knowledge mgmt. & best practices are fully leveraged X-SEG within Americas
- Develop expert skill level in MSSM and sourcing strategy development including hyper-collaboration internally and externally to unlock business strategies that fill pipeline expectations and deliver ASP
- Ensure the supplier base is continuously optimized according to the category management strategies to enable the innovation, growth, and ASP delivery
- Accountable to drive regional compliance & ensure all governance according to the Mars standards
- Enable and deliver safety, Q&FS and sustainability results in partnership with X-SEG Supply and MGS.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Economics, Science, or Supply Chain is preferred
- MRO expertise is essential — proven experience, knowledge, and capability within the MRO category is required
- Minimum 6+ years of global or regional MRO sourcing experience, with strong supplier capability knowledge and end-to-end supply chain understanding
- Demonstrated success in roles of similar scope and complexity; prior people management experience leading high-performing teams
- Strong leadership, change management, and project management skills
- Proven ability to make sound decisions in complex or ambiguous environments; track record of building strong internal stakeholder and supplier partnerships
- Experience working cross-regionally and in multicultural environments.
Benefits
- industry competitive salary and benefits package
- company bonus
- medical and dental benefits
- participation in 401k plan
- paid time off benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
MRO expertisesourcing strategy developmentcategory managementsupplier relationship management (SRM)cost avoidanceP&L impactknowledge managementbenchmarkingsupply chain understandingproject management
Soft Skills
leadershipchange managementdecision makingstakeholder managementcross-cultural communicationteam managementinnovationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree (preferred)