Manager, Strategic Sourcing and Planning -Proteins

Overview

The Manager, Strategic Sourcing & Planning leads the development and execution of sourcing strategies for high value, high risk protein categories across North America and Europe. This role serves as a trusted advisor to business partners, recommending sourcing approaches that balance cost, quality, supply continuity, and service ultimately enhancing the guest experience across all brands.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain – Food & Beverage, this leader manages a team of 2–5 category managers, providing direction, coaching, and oversight to ensure consistent application of best-in-class procurement practices.

The role is responsible for driving enterprise value by ensuring uninterrupted supply, managing category performance, and leading complex, high impact strategic sourcing initiatives. The role requires strong cross functional collaboration with stakeholders across all North America brands and disciplined engagement with global operating units to capture synergies, cultivate competitive supplier landscapes, and meet value creation and innovation targets.

• Development of an effective long-term strategic sourcing plan for highly complex categories and projects that create long term value while meeting brand objectives, including value creation, supply continuity, risk mitigation, and innovation. Ensuring cross-functional engagement and support of category projects and initiatives. Maintains connected relationships with key stakeholders and solicits input at appropriate times to stay aligned with business needs, including running meetings with key supplier/product updates and addressing stakeholder needs.
• Apply spend category management best practices, tools and techniques in the development and implementation of an integrated strategic sourcing strategy. Serves as a subject matter expert on strategic sourcing categories with stakeholders and fosters effective relationships.
• Maintain focus on project timelines and deliverables to ensure business goals are met. Partner with Finance to forecast impacts of category strategy, including scenario modelling. Manage annual initiative plans with realistic timelines and contracting deadlines; communicate initiative status.
• Provide oversight, performance manage, coach, and develop a team of 2–5 category leaders to drive strategic approaches and cultivate strong business relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Research best practices and conduct baseline due diligence to understand opportunities for savings, reduced total cost of ownership, improved efficiencies, quality, and service. Lead supplier qualification, segmentation and certification programs. Stay informed on commodity markets and report trends, pricing fluctuations, and forecast details to brands.
• Effective supplier relationship management; leverage data, metrics, and internal feedback. Provide and review scorecards to improve supplier results. Develop early supplier involvement to maximize capabilities, and influence change across stakeholders. Oversee portfolio of contracts, build and maintain supplier relationships, and hold suppliers accountable to contractual requirements.
• Implement gold-standard contracts across the strategic supplier base. Negotiate strategic supplier contracts, develop innovative pricing models and agreements to deliver value. Lead supplier negotiations, manage RFP/RFQs, use the 7-step sourcing process where applicable, and develop and execute category strategy.

• Scope:
  Leads the strategy, planning, and execution of high-value, high-risk protein sourcing categories across North America and Europe, with direct impact on multiple brands and global operating units. Manages a portfolio of strategic supplier contracts and develops a team of 2–5 category managers, ensuring consistent best-in-class sourcing and procurement practices. Serves as a trusted advisory partner to senior stakeholders across Supply Chain, Finance, Food & Beverage, and brand leadership.
• Problem solving:
  Addresses high-complexity sourcing challenges through data-driven analysis and scenario…