Sourcing Specialist

Discover the opportunity to join Mondelez International as a Sourcing Specialist in Morris County. Learn more about the role, requirements, and how to apply on the Connect to Morris website.

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Vacancy: Unspecified
Job Nature: Unspecified
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Expires on: Feb 18, 2025
Job Description
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.
This is an exciting role where you will learn to use market insights and data analysis to work with different partners to start and shape new market trends. You will support the development and execution of sourcing strategies for spend categories and support the continuous improvement and standardization of the strategic sourcing processes
How you will contribute
You support spend category teams to develop and execute sourcing strategies for specific spend categories. To excel in this role, you interact with cross-functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics (for example, conducting "make or buy" analyses). You also generate insights from bid events, prepare supplier negotiation materials, support project execution and supplier relationship management, and drive controls and compliance.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:
- Procurement
- Data Analytics - ability to analyze and visualize large amounts of data
- Supply market analysis experience preferred
- Project Management with key stakeholders
- Vendor Management: Contract/Price Negotiation, influencing and building collaborative relationships
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
Procurement:
You'll help create a competitive advantage for Mondelēz International by building winning supplier partnerships and effectively managing all company resources. Working with the businesses, you and your team will drive sustainable top and bottom-line growth through supplier innovation, best-in-class margin and cash management, and highly efficient source-to-pay processes.
Job Scope:
Procurement is a global function within the organization and aspiring to demonstrate competitive advantage through winning Supplier Partnership and Effective Management of All Company Spend. The global spend is uniformly consolidated into 5-Spend Areas (Raw Materials, Packing Materials, Logistics and Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing and Business Services and IT).
External Manufacturing (EM) team is part of Logistics and Manufacturing Spend Area and is responsible for cost effective sourcing of portfolio of branded finished products (FP) from "contract manufacturers" (CoMs) or "contract-repackers" (Re-pack) in compliance with Mondelēz International food safety, quality and service level expectations. This function is significantly important to the Biscuits and Confectionery Categories' growth agenda. Yearly, EM is challenged to create external supply solutions and timely execute New Product launches representing more than 15% of annual Net Revenue growth.
This role will support the development, execution of sourcing strategies for big brands like Oreo, CA!. Sourcing Specialist will assist Spend Leads to drive sustainable top and bottom-line growth through supplier innovation, best-in-class margin and cash management, and highly efficient source-to-pay processes. The key activities include market analytics, cost cards, spend & payment terms, contract database management, supports Spend Leads preparing sourcing events and working with Sourcing Analyst Pool, generating insights from bid events, preparing supplier negotiation materials, supporting project execution and supplier relationship management, and driving controls and compliance. Sourcing Specialist will work in all procurement systems, updating information records and maintaining documents renewals (Zycus, VoLT, team site, etc.)
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist Spend Area Managers with preparation, analysis and execution of sourcing practices
- Define requirements and templates for analytics and market intelligence support from the Sourcing Analyst Pool.
- Analyze spend baseline, Spend Area profile, and market insights to support development of Spend Area and EM strategies.
- Execute end-to-end sourcing projects in alignment with the Spend Area Managers
- Manage the Procurement strategy implementation or sourcing execution
- Support during NPD launches
- Support Spend Area Managers in stakeholders' management
- Maintain operational excellence for EM Spend Area
- Manage cost cards for EMs: analyze, update, compare, improve, implement single templates for all EMs, implement automation
- Prepare various analytics on the regular basis and during finance planning cycles
- Maintain SRM, manage score cards, organize and prepare regular meetings
- Support production by leading problem solving on supply issues and coordinating responses between EM Operations, EMs, suppliers, MDLZ stakeholders and LPRs.
- Support productivity agenda: lead productivity tracking file, update VOLT, manage productivity agenda as per agreed cross -functional governance
- Support DPO agenda in close collaboration with Spend Area
- Manage compliance: update Zycus, maintain EM team site, drive compliance agenda, update compliance tracker
- Assist in driving supplier performance
- Monitor, control and report KPIs to Spend Area
- Build regional best practices, exchange experience with other regions
Internal/External Contacts:
- External:
- Peer Network
- EMs
- Accounts payable teams
- Internal: EM Operations, BDs, Finances, Planners, PCMs, Raw and Packaging Spend Areas, LPRs, RD&Q, Marketing, Sourcing Analyst Pool
Education / Certifications: Bachelor's Degree in business, Economics, Finances or related fields.
Job specific requirements:
- From 1 to 3 years of experience in Procurement or Supply Chain or Sales.
- Ability to analyze diverse data sets such as cost cards, LRP, CFR
- Ability to work with multiple priorities
- Ability to communicate effectively within MDLZ key stakeholders and External Manufacturers
Work schedule: From Monday to Friday. Hybrid model role.
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $83,800 to $115,225; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget *.* In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results and eligibility to participate in our long-term incentive program.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
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Job Type
Regular
Sourcing
Procurement
At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
We have a rich portfolio of strong brands - both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum
Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.
Join us and Make It An Opportunity!
Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
Job Requirements
  • Minimum Education: Unspecified
  • Experience: Unspecified
  • License: Unspecified
  • Training: Unspecified
Job Location
City: East Hanover
State: NJ
Country: USA
Zipcode: 07936
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