Marketing Procurement Manager, AMS

Responsibilities

Team Introduction
The Marketing and Consultancy Procurement team facilitates multi-million dollar annual purchases across a variety of marketing categories. Our mission is to enhance the business units' competitive edge by providing excellent "visible, controllable, and deliverable" procurement practices & solutions.

Responsibilities:
- Partner with Regional (and Global) Marketing teams to develop sourcing strategy and execution plans for multiple sub-categories, including Media buying, Creative & Video Production, Social and PR communication, Events, Market Research.
- This role will focus heavily on the market research category, supporting business divisions on complex negotiation strategies with market leading suppliers such as Nielsen, Kantar and the like.
- Collaborate with global and regional procurement teams to drive improvements and innovations for projects such as supplier management, sourcing process optimization, and purchasing efficiency.
- Manage P2P procurement process management including purchase request consolidation, supplier selection, contract negotiation, and PO management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve work efficiency, build accountability and provide timely resolution of issues.
- Lead and manage key internal and external procurement partnerships.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of marketing-related procurement experience is mandatory, through which you demonstrated the ability to: develop sourcing strategies, lead commercial tactics such as negotiation and competitive bidding, manage supplier agency relationships, influence leadership/peers to drive business value.
- Strong knowledge of the market research category is critical, particularly experience in working across large scale negotiations with leading suppliers.
- Knowledge and experience in managing a variety of marketing agencies, and understanding the dynamics of how agency models operate.
- Detailed oriented, self-motivated, ability to navigate complex situations, having a can-do attitude with a propensity toward acting with a sense of urgency & responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Problem-solving and independent thinking with a solution-orientated mind.
- Data-driven with strong quantitative analysis skills.
- Would also consider individuals coming from marketing agencies, who want to build a career in Procurement.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $79200 - $171000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.