Mars Looking for Strategic Operations Manager – Capital at Ciudad de México, México Full Time

This role is also responsible for optimizing investments in terms of cost, quality, risk and availability as per the Mars Commercial policy and its processes as well as within an ethics and Governance framework.

This person will be responsible for delivering a continuous supply of cost-effective, service orientated, timely and responsive in the Capital area, ensuring supplier performance and along with the team acting as the first point of contact for suppliers and internal clients.

This position will be responsible (internally) for providing leadership and subject matter expertise to enable strategic decision making. Through direct collaboration with global stakeholders, he/she will lead the optimization of investments through inclusion of safety, cost, quality, risk and availability in accordance with the Mars commercial manual and MGS governance. This person will be responsible (externally) for identifying, developing and maintaining the relevant Business Services supplier sourcing options and ensuring supplier performance (SRM).

What are we looking for?

• College degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, other
• Experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Functions in multi-national environment
• Fluent in Spanish/Portuguese and English
• Very high level of business acumen and mindset – must have strong analytical skills, understand and anticipate consequences of macro-economic changes on business environment.
• 5 years of proven sourcing/procurement experience, supplier capability knowledge and E2E Supply chain knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement category strategies and a strategic path to execute it based on thorough understanding of issues and multiple internal and external perspectives, leveraging or developing best practices
• Strong cultural agility and capacity to navigate efficiently through ambiguity, changes, multiple stakeholders and complex matrix organization
• Highly effective interpersonal skills – excellent negotiator, strong communication and influencing skills to all organizational levels. Demonstrated ability to develop credible business relationships with senior executives internally or externally
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions in complex and/or ambiguous business environments. History of building strong client and supplier relationships
• Responsible for compliance and enhancement of proper procedures, policies, systems and controls, manages approvals and governance

Which will be your key responsibilities

• Develop deep category expertise that will deliver and continuously improves organization efficiencies, maximizes value creation and create competitive advantage opportunities
• Builds commercial ownership for relationship development with strategic suppliers: leads reduction of supply base by 20-30%, negotiation of competitive terms and contracts, secures competitive advantage, and enables access to innovative and value creation solutions from suppliers’ capabilities ahead of competitors
• Leads supplier performance and contract compliance – provides regular financial, service and quality forecasts and updates to appropriate functional executives
• Responsible to develop and institutionalize an enterprise wide annual sourcing plan (ASP) for Mexico, Brazil & Argentina across CAPITAL investments such as construction, real estate, maintenance projects, equipment and machinery, utilities, offices infrastructure and energy projects.
• Responsible to leverage the Americas Currency center in order to provide hedge coverage for imported items in foreign currency.
• Responsible to ensure Capital investment are purchased in line with commitments to the business and as per the sourcing strategies by ensuring a wide range of sourcing tools
• Establish and maintain relationships, partnering with the key local and regional stakeholders including regional and key country functional leaders in the Global Capital Team, Engineering, Supply, Manufacturing and Finance, GM’s and CFO’s to ensure understanding and alignment with the business needs and requirements.
• Accountable, with the Regional Directors to deliver the ASP value creation for the Capital of spend, in terms of P&L impact, cost avoidance, cash and contribution to the productivity programs of each Segment.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.