Manager, Supplier Strategy

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The Manager, Supplier Strategy is responsible for the development and implementation of internal supplier strategy and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives across Commercial Effectiveness, working directly to support the VP, Supplier Strategy, SVP Commercial Effectiveness, SVP Commercial Intelligence and the Chief Commercial Sales Officer. The role’s primary focus will be to support the development, oversight, and implementation of strategic initiatives—partnering directly with the Commercial Effectiveness and Commercial Intelligence leadership teams in support of Supplier Commercial teams.

This role will be expected to be a key cross-functional partner and work closely with other SGWS functions, including OSM, Commercial Intelligence, Supply Chain Management, and Finance.

• Partner and collaborate with the Commercial Intelligence and the Commercial Effectiveness teams to embed Ways of Working and best practices within the organization to drive a strong understanding of Commercial Effectiveness initiatives and consistency across the team and within regions
• Identify opportunities to drive Supplier Standardization and leverage best practices across Strategic Supplier Universe (e.g., programming and planning)
• Manage supplier quota commitments by collaborating with Supplier leads and Commercial Effectiveness organization
• Develop process to optimize supplier national program design and execution across suppliers
• Collaborate with Insights and Strategy COE to develop standard department templates for supplier activities including recap reports
• Work with Commercial teams to develop and capitalize on subchannel opportunities
• Drive national consistency, process standardization and tool deployment across the SDM, Fine Wine and corporately managed suppliers, in close coordination with the commercial leadership team and Commercial Effectiveness team

• Develop standard approach to manage contractual and day-to-day Supplier Ways of Working across Supplier Teams
• Develop and deploy Supplier Contractual Compliance Playbook
• Create, Launch and partner with Commercial Intelligence teams to actively manage Supplier “Sense of Urgency” Report focused on key supplier terms, opportunities and transition updates to share with SGWS Executive Team, OSM and Regions
• Partner with Commercial Finance and commercial leadership to develop a standard Center Fund Template and Review Process
• Work directly with Commercial Finance and Supplier teams to develop a standard process for LMF contributions management
  
  Collaborate with Corporate and Regional teams to identify supplier management best practices that can be redeployed across the SGWS supplier network (e.g., planning, programming, goals, commercial deliverables)
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