Senior Sourcing Manager Logistics And Warehouse

Your role at Sephora:

As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for developing strong and effective business partner relationships and providing strategic sourcing support to the Sephora Supply Chain and Warehousing categories. Reporting to the Director of Technology & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing, you will leverage your experience to deliver significant value to key stakeholders by managing the end-to-end strategic sourcing process for Supply Chain & Warehousing (your primary spend category) and lead stretch projects in other spend categories such as Packaging, Supply Chain Technology, and cross-functional category collaborations as needed.

In addition, you will:

• Stay abreast of changes in the market, such as emerging technologies and suppliers, and evaluate and address any impact of changes in supplier status (eg, via acquisition)
• Advocate for and track compliance to Sephora's Indirect Spend and Delegation of Authority policies by delivering periodic training, aka "road shows," and appropriately escalating non-compliance
• Participating actively to improve Sephora's Sustainability, Supplier Diversity, and 3rd party Risk goals.
• Close sourcing projects in a timely manner, including but not limited to uploading executed agreements to our contract lifecycle management, and security stakeholder and finance approval on savings or cost avoidance
• Demonstrate Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.
• Build an execute a plan to identify and evaluate diverse suppliers, with a goal of increasing the percentage of category spend with diverse suppliers
• Build project plans and timelines to ensure key milestones are being captured and met as it relates to the sourcing process
• Achieve year-over-year improvements in spend related to the category ownership, without sacrificing quality and service
• Keep up to date with market trends in the category and procurement functions
• Provide thought leadership and support to ad hoc projects optimizing Strategic Sourcing's effectiveness, for example, by proposing and implementing process improvements
• Bring best practices in Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Indirect Procurement to drive automation and simplification.
• Collaborate with Finance and functional stakeholders to develop strategic sourcing plans with well-defined cost savings and avoidance targets
• Develop strong relationships with and be recognized as a valued partner by stakeholders to influence business decisions
• Strategize across categories/departments to identify opportunities for gained efficiencies and cost-effectiveness in supplier negotiations
• Effectively communicate status updates to key stakeholders, including timely identification and escalation/resolution of issues
• Continually improve supplier performance by setting measurable, contractual, performance targets and related supplier performance management
• Conduct all phases in the development of complex contracts, including reviewing statements of work or requirements, request for information (RFI), and request for proposal (RFP) development
• Partner with a broad mix of stakeholders on contract evaluation, redlining, and negotiation, such as Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and Internal Controls

We’re excited about you if you have:

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• 8+ years of strategic sourcing experience, with strong expertise in multiple categories in a multi-national retail corporation
• Ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external suppliers.
• Excellent prioritization skills with the ability to adapt and change quickly.
• Advanced analytics, excel, presentation, data visualization, and Sourcing tools skills (required)
• Experience in sourcing key Supply Chain categories such as Freight, 3PL, Warehousing, and others such as materials, fixtures, packaging, construction, maintenance, and cleaning programs, a plus.
• A continuous learning mindset
• Knowledge of sourcing category strategy, supplier relationship management, supplier continuous improvement programs.
• Excellent communication skills, including oral, written, and interpersonal. Experience interfacing with senior-level stakeholders.
• Experience and skill as a negotiator with the utilization of flexible strategies.
• A proven track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements.
• Ability to successfully influence both internal and external partners.
• Excellent project and timeline management skills to manage sourcing projects end-to-end, from project intake, through onboarding to project closure and transition.