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Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive

Store Code: PDL Executive Admin (27045)

What’s Our Dish

Announced in May 2018, Peapod Digital Labs (PDL) is an Ahold Delhaize USA company that powers the eCommerce and digital strategies for the Great Local Brands of Ahold Delhaize USA. Accelerating growth in digital and personalization capabilities, PDL is an innovation lab focused on meeting the changing needs of customers, regardless of when, where, and how consumers choose to shop.

Browse The Aisles

The Sourcing Lead is responsible for strategic sourcing approximately $23 Billion in spend for A Brands, Fresh, Wine, Supplier Diversity, GM Seasonal, and Fuel. The role provides strategic oversight and leadership for the Ahold Delhaize USA family of Brands to continue to drive savings, continuous improvement, and innovation to secure the lowest cost of goods sold for efficient operations. This role is a key enabler for the Brands to maintain their cost structure to deliver their customer-facing and sustainability strategies to their local markets. This role provides oversight of the centralization and coordination of Sourcing; execution on behalf of the operating Brands for Fuel, Fresh, GM Seasonal, Wine sourcing; coordinate, support and govern Fresh contracts and A Brands sourcing together with category management. Responsible for developing and executing the center of excellence for all sourcing activities used in all of the US Brands of Ahold Delhaize USA, playbook, calendar management, economic insights, best practices, etc. This role is expected to take unpopular stands both internally and externally and escalate to executive leaders as needed.

Recipe for Success - What's “in store” for the role

• Drives and ensures total cost analysis is used to make sourcing decisions impacting should cost, value chain, commodity insights. and cost models to achieve best landed costs.
• Establishes a collaborative culture across Ahold Delhaize USA by exemplifying openness, shared action, and renewed focus on mutual long-term benefits. Acts as a trusted thought partner for all areas of the organization and cultivates relationships with internal and external key senior business partners. Acts as single source of contact for refereeing conflicts, disputes, and disagreements.
• Decision maker on all aspects of event reporting, supplier results, and award scenarios.
• Sets direction and oversees establishment of fact-based playbooks and owns the Fresh, Wine, Fuel, and Center Store CPG event calendars
• Drives development of new capabilities and continuous improvement to maximize cost and vendor funding.
• Drives process and collaboration across category management to establish strategic cost negotiations for Fuel, Fresh, Wine, and General Merchandise.
• Responsible for identifying and providing tools, processes, and training to build detailed sourcing plans and the basis for negotiating.
• Responsible for the development, talent planning, and performance management of associates with the ability to lead the team through conflict and change.
• Oversight of the Commodity Market Insights team that provides commodity/economic market insights to enable maximized negotiating effectiveness while improving cost of goods.
• Serves as primary champion & process leader for the strategic buy for all fuel, ultimately finalizing and awarding the decision. Full COGS responsibility and execution for Fuel.
• Leads Supplier Diversity team responsible for strategy, target setting, and reporting of diverse suppliers.
• Accountable for achieving Strategic Sourcing financial targets (S4OC) which directly impact each Brand, and vendor funding (i.e. trade) reporting.
• Supports the organization in the resolution of major customer satisfaction and vendor performance issues.
• Leads the team that iTdentifies suppliers that will participate in events, completes market research, and creates assessment questionnaires. Executes bids, evaluates results, and takes appropriate action to address any discrepancies.

The Essentials In Your Cart - The Required Ingredients

• Familiarity and experience with Sustainability initiatives
• Strong negotiation skills and extraordinary internal and external cross functional relationships to aggressively drive costs out of every part of our business
• 10+ years of experience in Sourcing or Category Management in roles of increasing responsibilities
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Requires travel – typically 10 - 20%
• 8+ years demonstrated success leading people/teams
• Ability to navigate the nuances of specific and unique financial and procurement decisions
• Strong analytical, financial planning, and budgeting experience

Extra Spices - What you should bring to the table

• Transformational change management experience
• 15+ years in total commercial experience (Sourcing, Category Management, etc.)
• Master’s Degree

Join Us at Our Table

Peapod Digital Labs is a forward-thinking company with a strong legacy of innovation. We recognize who powers our progress – our people! Our vision is to become an organization where humanity is universally embraced; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business; and our PDL employees are representative of the world and the communities that we serve.

We believe in total wellness, which encompasses a balance of physical, financial, and emotional wellness. No matter where you are on your personal wellness journey, PDL provides access to a variety of tools and resources to support total wellness. This includes medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) with a strong company match, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, generous and flexible paid time off and holiday policy, and an array of voluntary benefits including critical care, pet insurance, and additional life coverage.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Requisition: 331818_external_USA-NC-Salisbury