Director, Strategic Sourcing Food

Department Overview

About Global Supply Chain

McDonald’s Global Supply Chain (GSC) vision is to be “The world’s leading Supply Chain, connecting customers with food and experiences they love and trust.”  GSC is responsible for $50 billion of food, beverage, distribution, logistics, packaging, & services spend.  Our focus is on food safety & quality, resiliency, sustainability, digital acceleration, evolving our 3-legged stool advantage, which is all built around the foundation of culture and talent.

Duties

This position is a key member of the Global Strategic Sourcing Food - Proteins Team, that will develop and implement a “best in class” protien sourcing strategy for Europe. This strategy will deliver a more resilient supply chain for our protein products across Europe by supporting our customer needs and expectations and creating the greatest value to our business.  This position is London, UK based and is intended to deliver a competitive advantage to McDonald’s. 

This position is accountable to:

1. Design, develop and implement a European protein sourcing strategy across the value chain that delivers on the category vision to collaborate across all 3 legs of the stool to grow a more resilient protein supply chain that is safe and sustainable, delivers high quality and builds value while ensuring brand protection.
2. Manage global supplier relationships across the protein categories to drive enhanced resiliency and performance across contingency planning and testing, cost savings and digitalization.
3. Collaborate with the proteins sourcing team to build long term supply solutions that improve resiliency of the raw material supply chain, given its global nature and opportunities.
4. Lead and execute regional RFP’s and manage supplier pricing protocol agreements.
5. Lead transversal projects across the protein category and support Global Strategic Sourcing Food project teams as required.

Key Success Measures

• Able to build resiliency into the supply chain, including strengthening and testing contingency plans for assured Supply; enhancing brand trust; and ensuring competitiveness of total cost to serve without impacting quality, food safety and social workplace accountability.
• Able to build strong business relations with markets (including teams in DL markets), global suppliers, Global Protein team, Field Service and across the GSC functions
• Lead Supplier Relationship Management and drive suppliers to self-managed excellence
• Able to demonstrate continuous improvements across the protein supply chain
• Able to bring creative and innovative ideas to life
• Uses data to develop strong business insights and actionable solutions.
• Understanding of sustainability and how to incorporate it into product sourcing strategies by making it commercially viable
• Understands and lives the McDonald’s values everyday: Serve, Inclusion, Integrity, Community, Family.

Qualifications

• At least 7-10 years of Supply Chain experience (food experience a plus) and knowledge of global supply issues required.
• BA/BS in supply chain management, economics, finance, management and/or agriculture or related field preferred. 
• Experience in developing product sourcing strategies is a must
• Must have strong analytical, negotiation, organizational and leadership skills
• Able to work with cross functional departments within the organization
• Good problem-solving skills and corrective action/resolution skills
• Strong verbal and written Communication skills required
• Experience in working in a strong team environment
• Strategic Partnering is a must
• Must have the ability to function within a team-oriented environment and collaborate on multidisciplinary efforts across geographies
• Understanding sustainability and how to incorporate it into product strategies is a plus.
• Experience of working in “agile” environments is a plus
• Able to travel internationally