About Wonder

Everything’s on the menu at Wonder. Except compromise.  

Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot.

Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency at scale.

Join us as we work to make great food more accessible.

About The Opportunity

The Associate Director, Marketing Procurement will lead marketing procurement across all marketing and communications categories, including but not limited to creative, media, public relations, and MarTech, across the Wonder Group portfolio (including Wonder, Blue Apron, Grubhub, and Tastemade and others).

This role will lead the evaluation and negotiation of strategic marketing partnerships and suppliers, develop procurement strategies, and provide actionable insights into the company’s marketing spend and supplier footprint. You will partner closely with key stakeholders across Growth, Brand, and Communications to drive successful outcomes in supplier negotiations, identify opportunities for consolidation or expansion, and ensure the organization is maximizing value from its marketing investments.

With a holistic, enterprise-wide view of our Marketing ecosystem, you will help identify opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize spend, strengthen supplier partnerships, and establish consistent strategies and best practices across the organization. This role will serve as a strategic partner to marketing leadership, balancing business needs, creativity, performance, and commercial value to support Wonder Group’s broader goals.

Ultimately, you have a passion for negotiating and evaluating marketing spend that drive efficiencies but also aligns with the business goals.

The Impact You Will Make

• Develop and execute marketing procurement strategy across Wonder Group’s marketing and communications categories, including media, creative, public relations, MarTech, production, agencies, market research, events, and other marketing services 
• Serve as a trusted business advisor to Wonder Group’s marketing stakeholders, providing best-in-class marketing sourcing & procurement consulting
• Partner with Marketing and Communications leadership to understand business priorities, translate marketing needs into procurement strategies, and identify opportunities to improve value, efficiency, and supplier performance 
• Use data analytics, industry benchmarking and strategic sourcing methodologies to develop and execute sourcing strategies, business strategies and change management programs to stakeholders
• Support the development, negotiation, and purchasing of high impact sourcing projects and initiatives ensuring alignment with the overall priorities and objectives of Wonder Group and its Marketing business stakeholders
• Evaluate and drive towards recommendation on outside benchmarking solutions to support negotiations
• Analyze marketing spend and supplier footprint across the Wonder Group portfolio to identify opportunities for cost optimization, consolidation, rationalization, and improved supplier utilization
• Self manage workload and appropriately communicate opportunities and challenges to your Leader
• Manager and mentor a Marketing Procurement, Manager
• Provide regular communication to leadership on project status, contract renewals, category performance, and various initiatives
• Ensure appropriate delegation of projects and responsibilities to your direct report
• Collaborate with Legal, Cyber Security and Corporate IT on AI topics and standards
• Serve as the enterprise-wide subject matter expert for marketing procurement, providing a “bird’s-eye view” of the organization’s marketing supplier ecosystem and helping ensure Wonder Group is aligned around common procurement goals and best practices. 
• Identify gaps in resourcing, knowledge, process, policy, etc. and provide recommendations

What You Bring to the Table

• 7+ years of experience in Indirect Procurement and Marketing specific negotiations
• Must have experience within a multi-entity and/or fast-paced environment
• Bachelors degree required - in related field

As a matter of company policy, Wonder does not sponsor applicants for employment visa status for this role.

Our hybrid model requires 3 days a week in the office. That said, many team members choose to come in more often to take advantage of in-person collaboration and connection. You're welcome—and encouraged—to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

NYC Base Salary: $174,000-$183,500 per year.

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

The benefits applicable to this role include a competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k). We also offer a choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid short and long term disability coverage, paid time off including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable law in addition to paid parental leave, discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands.

Eligibility, effective dates, and available plan options vary by employment classification and location. To learn more about benefits for this role, visit our Careers page here. 

A Final Note

At Wonder, we build the best teams by hiring with an objective lens — evaluating people for their potential while championing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. As part of our commitment to fair and compliant hiring practices, Wonder participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility. If you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.