Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Indirect

Overview

The Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Indirect (e.g., Retail, Entertainment, Professional Services, Marketing, HR) will lead and manage efforts to secure optimal sourcing opportunities with local and regional impacts. This role aims to deliver value, drive savings, increase efficiency, assure supply, and mitigate supply chain risks. The Manager will act as a strategic partner who listens to understand business needs, plan and implement sourcing initiatives, and ensure project timelines and deliverables are met.

The Manager will work closely with various functional stakeholder groups at the VP and SVP level, providing expertise in effective strategy development, spend management, analysis, and negotiation.

The ideal candidate will be able to interpret and operationalize sourcing strategies developed by senior leadership or category leads, ensuring consistent execution and measurable value delivery.

• Lead, develop, and implement an integrated strategic process across brands. Identify strategic sourcing opportunities that leverage our size and scale to deliver competitive advantage while maintaining or improving quality and service levels. Conduct deep spend analysis by commodity, vendor and/or SKU to develop opportunities and overall sourcing strategy.
• Manage Strategic Sourcing Initiatives utilizing a strategic sourcing process (market/region analysis, supplier risk analysis, baseline spend analysis, RFP execution, negotiation strategy and plan, contracting, implementation, and monitoring of source recommendations). Negotiate multi-million-dollar contracts on behalf of Carnival engaging suppliers at the COO and CEO level.
• Manage Contracts and Key Supplier Relationships.
• Engage and collaborate with brand stakeholders and corporate teams. Manage category portfolio with significant spend oversight in Opex/Cap Ex: develop and implement multi-year growth plans for category/business units; monitor market trends and gaps affecting the category; manage suppliers to ensure uninterrupted flow of products/services.
• Deliver results to performance goals and measurement including hard savings, cost avoidance, supplier diversity and sustainability.

• Lead and manage efforts across the four NA brands to secure optimal sourcing opportunities with local and regional impacts.
• Collaborate closely with functional stakeholder groups at the VP and SVP level, providing expertise in strategy development, spend management, analysis, and negotiation.
• Partner with stakeholders across Carnival’s North America brands (CCL, HAL, PCL, and SBN) to ensure alignment with goals and objectives.
• Manage category portfolio and significant spend oversight of multi-million-dollar contracts in Opex/Cap Ex.
• Demonstrate leadership abilities by partnering and collaborating with product developers and key suppliers. Persuade, influence, and negotiate category strategy development and spend decisions, providing overall experience to a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Travel & Hospitality, Retail, Supply Chain or other applicable disciplines.
• CPSM or other travel certifications preferred but NOT REQUIRED.
• Advanced spreadsheet and numerical analysis skills, including financial cost analysis; should-cost and total cost of ownership; working knowledge of spend analytics and eRFX tools.
• Strong negotiation skills, business ethics, problem‑solving ability, and multi‑tasking capability in complex situations.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and problem‑solve.
• Demonstrated ability to influence others and interact with all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to multi‑task and prioritize changing workload requests.
• Strong analytical skills (data analysis fundamentals).
• Strong negotiation skills developed through sourcing/procurement experience.
• Strong knowledge of contracting (negotiating business terms and scope writing).
• Aggressive “go‑getter”, driven, capable of working with little supervision.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; champion of change management; strong planning/project‑management skills.
• Uses quality management skills to ensure all procedures and…