Specialist, Strategic Sourcing - Capital (CAPEX)

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.