Associate Director, Marketing Procurement

Location: New York

About Wonder Everything’s on the menu ept compromise.

Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot.

Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency n us as we work to make great food more accessible.

About The Opportunity The Associate Director, Marketing Procurement will lead marketing procurement across all marketing and communications categories, including but not limited to creative, media, public relations, and Mar Tech, across the Wonder Group portfolio (including Wonder, Blue Apron, Grubhub, and Tastemade and others).This role will lead the evaluation and negotiation of strategic marketing partnerships and suppliers, develop procurement strategies, and provide actionable insights into the company’s marketing spend and supplier footprint.

You will partner closely with key stakeholders across Growth, Brand, and Communications to drive successful outcomes in supplier negotiations, identify opportunities for consolidation or expansion, and ensure the organization is maximizing value from its marketing investments.

With a holistic, enterprise-wide view of our Marketing ecosystem, you will help identify opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize spend, strengthen supplier partnerships, and establish consistent strategies and best practices across the organization. This role will serve as a strategic partner to marketing leadership, balancing business needs, creativity, performance, and commercial value to support Wonder Group’s broader goals.

Ultimately, you have a passion for negotiating and evaluating marketing spend that drive efficiencies but also aligns with the business goals.

The Impact You Will Make Develop and execute marketing procurement strategy across Wonder Group’s marketing and communications categories, including media, creative, public relations, Mar Tech, production, agencies, market research, events, and other marketing services

Serve as a trusted business advisor to Wonder Group’s marketing stakeholders, providing best-in-class marketing sourcing & procurement consulting

Partner with Marketing and Communications leadership to understand business priorities, translate marketing needs into procurement strategies, and identify opportunities to improve value, efficiency, and supplier performance

Use data analytics, industry benchmarking and strategic sourcing methodologies to develop and execute sourcing strategies, business strategies and change management programs to stakeholders

Support the development, negotiation, and purchasing of high impact sourcing projects and initiatives ensuring alignment with the overall priorities and objectives of Wonder Group and its Marketing business stakeholders

Evaluate and drive towards recommendation on outside benchmarking solutions to support negotiations

Analyze marketing spend and supplier footprint across the Wonder Group portfolio to identify opportunities for cost optimization, consolidation, rationalization, and improved supplier utilization

Self manage workload and appropriately communicate opportunities and challenges to your Leader Manager and mentor a Marketing Procurement, Manager Provide regular communication to leadership on project status, contract renewals, category performance, and various initiatives

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