Lead Category Sourcing

Current Employees, Consultants, and Agency Partners If you currently work for Brown-Forman, please apply by clicking the Careers icon on the Workday portal. For best results, use Google Chrome to view this page. Meaningful Work From Day One. The Direct Procurement team works with all areas of the Supply Chain Functions identifying opportunities to improve cost, process improvements, improve profitability, cost containment/avoidance and optimize sourcing opportunities. This position will be focused on Manufacturing procurement. What You Can Expect Lead Sourcing Market analysis, risk mitigation, supplier innovation, and value delivery in designated categories, while adhering to standardized B-F Strategic Sourcing policies and procedures. Create and implement global category sourcing strategies working with senior category management, coordinate with regional and local sourcing resources as needed, and build stakeholder alignment. Work closely with key internal customers across the organization, to develop effective cost reduction strategies, while meeting specification standards. Support on-going supplier selection and evaluation process. Negotiate and implement major commercial agreements, and resolve supplier disputes while maintaining a high standard of ethics. Work closely with the Legal Department. Lead key supplier development and improvement efforts, with a special focus on supplier efficiencies, accuracy and Supplier Diversity. Maintain key performance metrics appropriate for each category and suppliers. Build effective, consistent, and equitable strategic supplier relationships, while maintaining a high standard of ethics. Knowledge of finance and financial methods, with the ability to translate analysis into strategies, actions, and results. Prepare annual budget/pricing forecasts for global categories. Participate and support Global innovation projects. Partner with teams and stakeholders to define the long term vision, the creation of processes/vendor practices to support business needs and ease of use, drive behaviors to common suppliers and processes, remove obstacles to usage, communicate benefits and encourage users, and develop excellent supplier relationships and performance. Lead and coordinate efficiencies for global category management and procurement. What You Bring to the Table Education: College/University (Bachelors or Equivalent); Supply Chain, Business or related discipline. Experience: 3-5 years’ experience in direct sourcing and procurement. Strong working knowledge of contract negotiations with a focus on delivering significant savings in a challenging, multi-layered global environment Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to persuade, motivate and compel support for key ideas and initiatives, via persuasive and respectful discussions Ability to influence decision making, and create consensus, in cross-functional and multi-site teams, and with suppliers. Demonstrated ability to influence and drive change among stakeholders Ability to identify and focus on top priorities, and balance multiple projects and tasks simultaneously Ability to foster a high-performance environment among diverse individuals Commitment to ethical procurement and treatment of suppliers, fosters diversity and minorities as part of the supplier base. Ability to develop strategic sourcing vision and plans, and implement through exceptional execution. Ability to travel internationally. What Makes You Unique Spirits, beer, wine, beverages, food, pharmaceutical or CPG industry experience. Ability to speak fluent Spanish and English Who We Are We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work. What We Offer Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce. Requisition Type: Employee Management Level: Leader Global Job Level: L1 Number of Openings Available: 1 #J-18808-Ljbffr