Director, Strategic Sourcing Services

Department Overview

The Center of Excellence (COE) is a centralized group of supply chain experts who provide the essential resources and services that support our Global Supply Chain Goals. Together, the team provides strategic thought leadership and builds, improves, and implements processes and tools that make our Global Supply Chain more effective and efficient.

The Center of Excellence’s purpose is to help enable our GSC Vision: “To be the world’s leading supply chain, connecting customers with the food they love and trust”. We do this by enhancing the unique “ingredients” of Global Supply Chain (GSC) and empowering supply chain business decisions through our special SAUCE:

- Strategy and Risk Management: we lead our GSC Strategy and Risk Management processes, including owning the area of Supplier Human Rights.

- Analysis: we lead key Supply Chain Reporting activities and provide insights, intel and benchmarking capabilities across GSC.

- Upskilling: we lead GSC Training Programs, manage the Learning Resource Center and our Development Experience Portal (DEP).

- Collaboration: we facilitate collaboration across GSC and other Functions to find solutions to important problems and uphold our cultural norms.

- Excellence: we build and leverage tools, templates, and technologies to provide strategic thought leadership and best practices.

Responsibilities

The COE has two teams each performing complimentary roles in support of GSC. This Director role will lead the Sourcing Excellence team. 

The Sourcing Excellence team’s key stakeholders are our global and market strategic sourcing teams across both Food and Services categories. Our vision is to be a trusted catalyst of innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership for our sourcing teams - aided by a strategic, agile, and data-driven ecosystem.

The Sourcing Excellence team provides process expertise and discipline, acts as a conduit for best practice sharing and enables an agile supply chain. Examples of each area can be summarized as follows:

· Strategic Sourcing Review Process

- Leveraging best practices across the 7 Step Sourcing Framework

- Managing 3rd Party Sourcing Project Support for key sourcing activities, including SSR/RFx, Network Optimizations and Category Research

· Supply Chain Insights & Reporting

- Commodity and Economic Insights & Reporting

- Commodity benchmarking

· Cross-Category Best Practices

- Act as an extension to our Sourcing Teams to identify best practices across key workstreams common to multiple categories. Current examples include our Supplier Engagement Strategy, Pricing Protocols, and expansion of Commodity hedging programs

You will lead a team of six self-starters while increasing visibility and building a pipeline of work across Food and Services.

Qualifications

· Leadership & Strategic Vision: Ability to anticipate trends and guide long-term planning; develop strategy and deliver against team goals

· People Leadership: People management with experience elevating teams by way of visibility and capability

· Stakeholder Management and Influence: Influence and manage a broad range of stakeholders; strong interpersonal skills to drive change without direct authority

· Communication: Demonstrate exceptional ability to communicate with clarity, purpose, and empathy across all levels of the organization, and create a shared sense of ownership across the team

· Proactivity, Creativity and Agility: Ability to proactively identify creative solutions and flexibility to manage evolving priorities

· Operational Acumen: Experience in managing multiple complex projects simultaneously and optimizing performance

· Analytical Thinking: Data-driven decision-making and problem-solving

· Category Management: Prior category management experience is preferred but not essential

· Industry Experience: 5+ years in supply chain, sourcing, or risk management

· Industry and Product Knowledge: Experience with various food or service categories. McDonald’s Global Supply Chain and market supply chains is a plus.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: YES

Long - Term Incentive: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $168,350.00 - $218,860.00 per year
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.