Strategic Sourcing Specialist (Capital) - Your next role at Mars?

As the Strategic Sourcing Specialist (Capital), your primary responsibility is to oversee buying activities across multiple sites and segments within Mars. This involves ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality, risk management, and availability while adhering to commercial policies and processes.

Your focus lies in delivering a continuous supply of cost-effective, service-oriented, and timely CAPEX investments, covering various areas such as construction, equipment, machinery, automation, packaging, and processes.

This is a role can be based out of Guararema (São Paulo, Brazil) or Querérato, Mexico.

In this key role, you will work on...

• Lead sourcing activities for Capital investments, including construction, equipment, machinery, automation, packaging, and processes, ensuring alignment with business commitments and sourcing strategies. 

• Deliver established savings targets, digital sourcing adoption, optimize the supplier data base and ensure compliance with Commercial policies and processes.

• Implement supply base strategy for multiple Mars manufacturing sites. 

• Contract Management: non-disclosure agreements (NDA's), contract creation, contract extensions, contract renewals and contract terminations.

• Support the implementation of global capital strategies and collaborate with category leaders, team members and peers to create synergies and maximize results.  

• Actively participate in team meetings and establish periodic meetings with key stakeholders in the sites to align on priorities which sits under the Sourcing Excellence team areas of responsibility. 

You?

• Complete Degree in Engineering, Business, Economics or related discipline.

• Advanced level of English is required, Spanish/Portuguese

• 4+ years of experience working with Procuremen is required, preferably in Capital or other factory related procurement areas
  Contract management knowledge

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with diverse 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.

• A strong focus on 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.