Director, Strategic Sourcing - Private Brands

## Director, Strategic Sourcing - Private Brands Apply locations:
SSC Irving TXtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R26 5047
* 7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.
*** Job Summary
** The Director of Strategic Sourcing will provide strategic leadership for Private Brands Sourcing at 7-Eleven, partnering with Product Development, Supply Chain, and Legal to enable scalable growth. This role leads a sourcing team responsible for developing sourcing roadmaps, capturing savings, strengthening supplier capability, managing domestic and import sourcing models, and leveraging enterprise scale to create competitive advantage. The Director also owns procurement best practices, contract lifecycle management, supplier relationships, and sourcing tools that support the Private Brands growth strategy.

The ideal candidate brings experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier and contract management, cross-functional leadership, and translating business strategy into executable sourcing plans.
** Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
*** Lead the Strategic Sourcing team through coaching, prioritization, clear performance expectations, talent development, and career planning. Build a high-performing culture of thought leadership, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and business partnership.
* Develop and lead a multi-year Private Brands Strategic Sourcing roadmap in partnership with Private Brands Product Development, enabling business growth, cost competitiveness, quality, speed to market, and risk mitigation.
* Define and manage a balanced domestic and international supplier portfolio using spend analysis, market benchmarks, supplier insights, competitive bidding, capability, capacity, lead times, import considerations, compliance requirements, and contract protections to identify savings, pricing opportunities, supplier improvements, and risk mitigation.
* Lead complex sourcing, bidding, and negotiation strategies for domestic and import programs. Partner with business owners, Product Development, Sourcing COE, Legal, Supply Chain, and suppliers to protect quality while optimizing cost, service, flexibility, speed to market, and supplier accountability.
* Improve sourcing governance, processes, tools, templates, reporting, and decision frameworks to create scalable ways of working that deliver savings, reduce risk, improve speed, strengthen supplier accountability, and support enterprise growth priorities.
** Key Leadership Competencies
*** Build strong relationships and influence stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-functional partners through indirect leadership across all organizational levels, including senior and executive audiences.
* Communicate sourcing strategies, business recommendations, and priorities clearly, tailoring message and level of detail to the audience while making complex topics easy to understand.
* Understand company vision, strategy, functional priorities, and related processes to provide leadership with informed recommendations on sourcing strategy, contract language, supplier capability, business value, cost, and risk.
* Solve complex problems by assessing the situation, using data and market insight, identifying root causes, developing practical solutions, and making informed decisions with initiative, ownership, and appropriate autonomy.
* Serve as a strategic sourcing thought leader by developing data-backed category and supplier strategies, challenging legacy ways of working, bringing external market insight into decisions, and influencing changes that enable Private Brands growth, agility, innovation, and enterprise value.
* Operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving…