Sr. Marketing Procurement Manager

Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Marketing Procurement will be responsible for building marketing category strategies and managing sourcing activity in support of Constellation Brands’ business objectives and growth strategies. In this role, you will report to the Senior Director, Marketing Procurement, and will lead a team managing the procurement activities around assigned Marketing categories, including trade marketing, experiential, consumer insights, e-commerce, sponsorships, and innovation. This position works closely with the marketing functions and cross-functional teams across the organization to maximize the return on the company’s significant investment in marketing.

Responsibilities

• Developing a strategic plan to drive incremental value and extended ROI for the assigned categories based on an understanding of business and stakeholder needs and priorities, the supply market, benchmarking, price availability, etc.
• Working collaboratively with key internal stakeholders to nurture and develop relationships with Constellation Brands’ external agencies and supply partners and optimize partner performance.
• Leading the design and implementation of comprehensive sourcing plans and strategies to ensure our marketing investment is as efficient and effective as possible.
• Developing and improving upon existing internal and external processes to simplify, standardize, and scale ways of working and best practices, including properly tracking and communicating efficiencies across the various spend activities.
• Leading the benchmarking, RFP/RFI, and bidding process, negotiating pricing/terms and conditions, and final contract award and implementation. Proactively managing vendor contract life cycle to prepare the organization for contract renegotiations or renewals.
• Maintaining adequate sources of supply to ensure that the requirements of the category are met with the optimum quality, service, and total cost-to-use.
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