Now Brewing – category sourcing manager, Marketing & Services - Indirect Service Sourcing #tobeapartner
From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.
This job contributes to Starbucks success by being a pioneer and executing unique sourcing strategies and solutions across categories to architect the business for the future.
Shaping the Business
Strategy Architect: Leads high-impact, complex sourcing initiatives requiring broad subject matter expertise across both direct and indirect categories. Applies deep sourcing knowledge to navigate unique business challenges and uncover strategic opportunities. Provides consultative support and thought leadership across the sourcing organization, leveraging extensive experience to drive value and influence decision-making.Drive Value
Value Architect: Applies best practices and structured problem-solving to deconstruct complex challenges, identify actionable solutions, and align stakeholders around strategic recommendations. Brings innovative, forward-thinking perspectives to reimagine business approaches and shape future direction. Leads end-to-end process reengineering, transforming foundational operations into future-state models. Leverages deep market expertise to proactively identify risks and uncover growth opportunities.Protect Supply and Reduce Risk
Contract Architect: Leverages deep expertise in legal frameworks and contracting best practices to lead the design, structuring, and negotiation of complex agreements, including outsourced service models. Demonstrates strong negotiation acumen with a collaborative, “we” mindset. Partners closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders to craft contracts that align with both business objectives and legal requirements, ensuring clarity around deliverables, costs, risks, and obligations to drive accountability and performance. Risk Management: Leads strategic initiatives to strengthen organizational resilience by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risks. Addresses a broad spectrum of risk areas including ethical sourcing, capacity constraints, supplier financial health, and margin pressures through targeted action plans. Demonstrates sound judgment in balancing risk with business certainty, ensuring sustainable and responsible sourcing practices.Basic Qualifications
Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary): Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred. Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 10+ years sourcing experience preferred.Skills (minimum required):
Sourcing Foundations: Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms, RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations. Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve. Strong acumen for coping with different business situations in a professional manner via obtaining essential information, focus on key objectives, recognize options available for solving problems, selecting the right approach to overcome obstacles, and set plans in motion to achieve execution. Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and all management levels on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership. Project Management: Strong acumen for coping with different business situations in a professional manner via obtaining essential information, focus on key objectives, recognize options available for solving problems, selecting the right approach to overcome obstacles, and set plans in motion to achieve execution. Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder. Ability to effectively use different types of influencing styles. Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management. Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (certificates), learning more about the broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers. Other: Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data); also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.Preferred Qualifications
Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Anticipate others' perspectives based on their role, level, and body language. Response to change is to consciously move through acceptance, adoption, and internalization. Communications & Business Acumen: Skilled storyteller in answer-first style.As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year. Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools. Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities. You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement. Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies. This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative. For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.
*If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above. For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.
The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
If you live in the greater Seattle area, we offer a flexible workplace that allows for hybrid work. Partners can work remotely up to two days per week.
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