Strategic Sourcing Manager - MRO

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As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

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Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Strategic Sourcing Manager based in Chicago, IL.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager is a key member of the North American Strategic Procurement team. You are responsible for developing, leading, and implementing short- and medium-term purchasing strategies that deliver best-in-class results in the areas of people, processes and costs for industrial categories. You work in strong collaboration with internal stakeholders, and you ensure that overall focus in accordance with established budget objectives, policies and guidelines under the direction of the Senior Procurement Manager, Indirect, North America.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

We are looking for an adaptive, dynamic leader with a proven track record of service excellence, continuous improvement, and cost efficiency in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is known for his/her strong experience of the supply chain market in the North American market with key successes. This role will be managing complex procurement projects in a multisite, multi division and multi countries (USA and Canada) environment, rapidly growing network across cost, service, efficiency, agility, and quality pillars to achieve long-term cross-functional business plan objectives.

• Achieve budget objectives by identifying, developing, and supporting North American sourcing strategy initiatives for MRO category in North America.
• Prepare, organize, and lead industrial projects and bids with current and potential suppliers for maintain best-in-class service, cost, and contract compliance in collaboration of our Industrial stakeholders to ensure a data driven approach to category management.
• Identify cost savings opportunities across industrial spend based on network analysis, industry trends, and market pricing.
• Continually assess Suppliers to ensure that our company receives competitive cost, quality, and service
• Structure the procurement industrial collaboration with methodology, process, and expertise.
• Participate as an active cross-functional team member, along with Industrial, Logistic/Supply Chain,…