Meta is looking to hire a Global Sourcing Manager to lead category management for Creative Marketing Services to drive strategic impact across its iconic brands, optimize marketing budgets, and mitigate risk.
Requirements
- 5+ Years of experience in Sourcing & Procurement for Marketing, Creative Marketing or Agency Operations for a brand/client side or related discipline
- Demonstrated success in sourcing, negotiating, and delivering complex contracts, with negotiation skills in both financial and business matters
- Experience using data analysis, industry trends, relevant data, and internal spend data to create strategies and identify optimization opportunities
- Proven track record of implementing category, strategic sourcing and process improvement initiatives
- Experience using varying types of communication to effectively convey complex ideas and strategies to C-level executives
- Experience working in a high-growth environment
- Familiarity with relevant software or technology used in sourcing and procurement
Responsibilities
- Develop multi-year category plans aligned with Business and Global Strategic Sourcing priorities
- Use industry trends, relevant data analysis, internal spend data and requirements to create strategies that will proactively identify optimization opportunities to help our Business meet their goals
- Lead the development and execution of sourcing plans and supplier spend management strategies, including handling of complex sourcing projects and contract negotiations that optimize value to the company
- Leverage advanced analytics and procurement technology to drive data-informed sourcing strategies and identify optimization opportunities
- Establish supplier positioning and manage strategic relationships with key suppliers, including influencing their processes, resource decisions, performance management and policies to create mutually beneficial and sustainable partnerships
- Contribute to implementation, planning, and change management of process improvement initiatives across Global Strategic Sourcing
- Ensure adherence to procurement policies and manage the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.
Other
- Drive strategic impact across Meta’s iconic brands
- Consult with the business to identify and deploy best practices in procurement, category management, and supplier management
- Collaborate with various business groups across Marketing, including our internal global agency and cross-functional teams like Financial Planning, Legal, Risk, Contracts, and Compliance
- Develop effective collaborative relationships with key business partners to understand their needs and become a trusted partner to strategically manage their spend and supplier relationships
- Develop collaborative partnerships across Finance, Operations, HR, Privacy and Legal teams and act as the collaborator to bring teams together and influence a Meta-wide solution
