senior group manager, Indirect / Direct Sourcing (Seattle, WA – U.S)

Now Brewing – mgr sr sourcing group #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 role will allow you to leverage your leadership and sourcing expertise at one of the world’s most iconic brands. We’re looking for a dynamic leader to shape our supplier strategy and drive operational excellence across food, beverage, and non-food categories. In this role, you’ll inspire teams, foster innovation, and build strategic partnerships that deliver sustainable value while upholding the highest standards of quality and integrity.

As a mgr sr sourcing group, you will…

Drive the engagement, development and performance of all members of their team.

• Ensures each partner has job clarity, including guiding partners in crafting meaningful goals that move work forward and enhance growth and development.
• Regularly engages in purposeful development discussions that generate insight and drive performance.
• Develops talent for the organization and is an advocate for partners seeking growth opportunities.
• Develop team to enable consistent achievement of goals.
• Celebrate success and address performance gaps knowing that partners can always improve.
• Effectively leading partner onboarding, including tactically train on key sourcing skills and how to approach sourcing through the lens of Starbucks values.

Leadership

• Lead and manage team to deliver best in class sourcing foundations and strategy execution to support the implementation of company programs and organizational strategic plans.
• Establish goals for the team, develop organizational capability, and models behaviors aligned to company values on how results should be achieved.
• Successfully motivate and collaborate within their team and across their peer group, and director level and above.
• Lead using demonstrated and proven experience and the application of best practice sourcing skills.
• Ensures partners adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.
• Builds effective and diverse teams: Provides direction, empowers, challenges and inspires team members to achieve business results.
• Leads effective staffing decisions to include succession planning, diverse and inclusive hiring decisions, disciplinary actions, performance management, recognition and rewards.

Architect Value

• Develop strategic and operational plans for the team, managing execution, measuring results, and holding partners accountable.
• Assist director in establishing measurable and strategic goals to enable bottom-line and top-line company growth, and corporate social responsibility leadership.
• Prepares, communicates and aligns stakeholders and team on changes in strategy, policies, and practices within the organization.
• Plans and manages business unit and organizational processes and practices to ensure that programs are aligned with company business goals and objectives.

We’d love to hear from people with:

• 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): 8+ years sourcing experience preferred.
• Leadership: Focused primarily on the growth and well-being of partners and the team, values diverse opinions, cultivates a culture of trust, empowers partners, acts with humility and shows up as with their authentic self.
• 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: 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 & Business Acumen: 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.

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.

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Starbucks Coffee Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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