Sourcing Specialist

**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
- Negotiating, influencing and building collaborative relationships

**More about this role**

**Role Purpose**:
The Regional Sourcing Specialist supports the development of Spend Area practices for assigned regional Spend Areas, including sourcing strategy execution, and stakeholder management, to maximize the total value of ownership for the organization. This person works closely with the regional business and global Spend Area teams to develop global and regional strategies, facilitate best practice sharing and drive advantaged cost, quality, service, and compliance to the organization.

**Job specific responsibilities**:
**1. Support global strategy development and planning**
- Analyze regional spend data and understand the business needs.
- Provide regional market and supplier insights to maximize opportunities.
- Develop sourcing strategy with implications on the region (e.g. productivity, cash, revenue).
- Support the supplier negotiation strategy at country, regional, or global level.

**2. Support strategy alignment and execution for regional and local Spend Areas**
- Strategy communication and alignment with regional and local cross functional teams.
- Prepare and plan for any of the regional bids, and co-lead regional or global negotiations.
- Actively engage in local key initiatives (aggregate demand, construct bid packages, and support sourcing through suppliers around the region) especially negotiations to ensure value levers are effectively played.
- Project prioritization and securing resources for implementation.

**3. Lead contract implementation and drive contract compliance as per globally agreed Procurement policies for selected global and multi-regional Spend Areas**
- Work in close collaboration with regional and local Procurement operations in order to ensure local acceptance of new contracts, and extended value generation to increase customer satisfaction.
- Coordinate contract implementation tasks with regional and local Procurement operations and users.
- Closely monitor internal customers' contract compliance and define and take approved corrective actions to improve contract compliance.
- Secure knowledge transfer and exchange by creating and storing project deliverables and relevant tools and templates in knowledge repositories.

**4. Support regional supplier relationship and risk management**
- In line with defined Procurement strategy, support classification and categorization of suppliers, including definition of supplier evaluation and audit policies.
- Continuously track supplier performance according to globally defined framework.
- Lead supplier development activities, set-up cross functional review meetings with suppliers in order to improve performance and further reduce cost.
- Initiate and conduct supplier audits according to globally defined framework.
- Proactively identify supply continuity risks and develop mitigation plans.

**5. Execute local or regional items and spot buys**
- End-to-end sourcing of purely local or regional spend items and large spot buys, unplanned ad hoc demands to keep control over high spend utilizing deep sourcing or Spend Area expertise.

**6. Support management of internal customer relationships related to defined Spend Area portfolio**
- Within the framework of the cross functional sourcing and supplier development teams, closely develop and manage the relationship with internal customers.
- Manage internal customer feedback and supplier performance.
- Improve and reinforce Procurement’s profile and recognition within the internal customer community.

**Knowledge, Experience, Education / Certifications**:

- Relevant Bachelor's degree
- Postgraduate/Procurement Qualification will be advantageous
- Stra