Strategic Sourcing Manager, Retail Operations & Facilities

Strategic Sourcing Manager, Retail Operations & Facilities

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At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Your Role at Sephora:

Ready for a career glow up? As Strategic Sourcing Manager, Retail Operations & Facilities, you’ll be developing strong and effective business partner relationships and providing strategic sourcing support to Sephora at an enterprise level and to the Store Operations and Facilities business units. The work you do will impact beauty, as you generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies and leverage the Source-to-Contract process to deliver measurable value and savings across store supplies, asset protection services, and facilities.

You’ll be part of a team that’s united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering incredible service and value to internal stakeholders and driving the scaling of our Sourcing team and processes.

• End-to-End Strategic Sourcing: Lead all aspects of the strategic sourcing process for assigned projects—including profiling the supply market, partnering with stakeholders to identify business requirements, leading RFI/X events using sourcing technology, gaining consensus on awards, conducting supplier negotiations, finalizing contracts, and handing awarded business off to business partners.
• Business Partner Support: Support business partners with sourcing objectives and supplier needs by leveraging the Intake-to-Contract process, assisting in contract negotiations for relevant categories, acting as the lead for assigned contracts, and summarizing negotiation results in deal summaries for senior leader approval.
• Category Strategy & Roadmaps: Build comprehensive category strategies across all assigned areas, understanding supply markets to optimize supplier capabilities at national and regional levels, and build strategic sourcing roadmaps in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Cross-Departmental Spend Optimization: Identify and optimize leverage spend opportunities across departments for both the US and Canada, Sephora Global, and LVMH to reduce total costs for the broader business while supporting the Director of Strategic Sourcing with broader retail operations and facilities requirements.

• Strategic Sourcing
  
  Experience:
  
  Proven success with 5+ years across end-to-end strategic sourcing engagements.
• Retail Category Expertise: 5+ years of sourcing experience with retail store and facilities categories across goods and services (preferably with a North American retail store organization).
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Operations preferred (or equivalent experience).
• Negotiation & Agreement Mastery: Experience in…