Are you passionate about strategic procurement and have proven experience driving large scale industrial, machinery, and factory projects? This opportunity is for you!

At Mars, we are looking for a Specialist, Strategic Sourcing – Capital (Sourcing Excellence) to lead capital expenditure (CAPEX) sourcing across regional and global sites, managing high-impact investment projects and collaborating with cross-functional engineering and commercial teams across North America, Latin America, and Europe.

PURPOSE

As the Specialist, Strategic Sourcing – Sourcing Excellence, your primary responsibility is to oversee buying activities across multiple sites and segments within Mars Americas. 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end to end sourcing activities for CapEx 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 within North America.

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

• Support the implementation of global CapEx 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.

Education & Professional Qualification

• College degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, and others.

• Ideally you will have around 5 years' commercial or purchasing experience, preferably in the areas of CapEx or other indirect buying which is factory related.

• Contract management knowledge.

• Excellent Stakeholder Management skills.

• Fluent English

• Fluent Spanish

• Advanced Portuguese *Highly desirable
  (This role will manage local stakeholders in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Mexico and Brasil).

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. Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site.