Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

The Direct Sourcing Group is responsible for the national sourcing, contracting and the spend management of the Albertsons Own Brands portfolio ($13 Billion annual sales), including the packaging, ingredients and commodities for our twenty (20) owned self-manufacturing plants as well as various other for resale corporate merchandising programs.

The Strategic Sourcing Department has an opening for a Strategic Sourcing Manager within the Direct Sourcing Group. This position is located at the Pleasanton CA corporate office.

This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to join a driven and growing team within strategic sourcing. Self-starters, proactive and energetic candidates who are looking to contribute with ideas, innovative thinking, and tireless actions should apply. We offer a great work-life balance, yet intense, challenging, and fast-paced working environment that ultimately celebrates results but demands absolute professionalism at every step. We welcome and value diversity, unique experiences, and wide skills sets.

Who you are: The ideal candidate is a self-starting sourcing professional within the grocery retail products and/or food manufacturing area who can pick up and run with their assigned categories. You are a top performer who puts results first and follows a sourcing process. You are a problem solver with an entrepreneurial mindset who is persistently looking for places to improve, is curious, and excited by the work in the field of Strategic Sourcing. You are a true team player looking to learn, share, teach, and grow with the team. You are comfortable with ambiguity and understand that internal and external collaboration is a key for top results.

We are looking for: Driven leaders who can demonstrate that they are change agents, consensus builders and strategists who have experience utilizing a sourcing process, and whose calling and drive is to make an impact.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Responsible for supporting and conducting strategic negotiation events for different categories across the organization
* Strong analytical skills: able to transform data into clear and relevant information
* Develop and deliver high quality presentations
* Establish relationships and lead Stakeholders / cross-functional teams along the process to get buy-in
* Develop and lead price, and terms-and-conditions negotiations with suppliers
* Lead sourcing events from project kick-off to contract execution
* Use and evaluate eSourcing tools and new technologies
* Participate in spend analytics and work planning efforts
* Create Strategic Sourcing partnerships in order to increase addressable spend
* Become a category expert in understanding the category role and develop category playbooks and roadmaps to enhance strategic negotiations
* Develop negotiation event timeline and manage execution
* Project management
* Handle small to multi-million dollar projects
* Supervise and mentor entry level buyers and analysts on building the financial model utilized to support negotiation events

Qualifications:

* 4-year college degree, graduate degree preferred.
* 4+ years' experience in Strategic Sourcing.
* Experience in developing and managing strategic supplier relationships
* Strong experience with contract negotiations and managing strategic supplier alliances
* Experience partnering with legal and negotiating terms and conditions
* Strong business writing, and oral communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

* Project Management skillset
* Degree or minor in quantitative field such as economics, math, statistics, managerial accounting, business management, etc. is preferred
* Strong oral and written communications skills

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success