Director, Strategic Sourcing Services

Company Description: 

McDonald's is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald's remains one of the world's leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world. 

At McDonald's, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements. 

The Center of Excellence (COE) is a centralized group of supply chain experts who provide the essential resources and services that support our Global Supply Chain Goals. Together, the team provides strategic thought leadership and builds, improves, and implements processes and tools that make our Global Supply Chain more effective and efficient.

The Center of Excellence's purpose is to help enable our GSC Vision: "To be the world's leading supply chain, connecting customers with the food they love and trust". We do this by enhancing the unique "ingredients" of Global Supply Chain (GSC) and empowering supply chain business decisions through our special SAUCE:

- Strategy and Risk Management: we lead our GSC Strategy and Risk Management processes, including owning the area of Supplier Human Rights.

- Analysis: we lead key Supply Chain Reporting activities and provide insights, intel and benchmarking capabilities across GSC.

- Upskilling: we lead GSC Training Programs, manage the Learning Resource Center and our Development Experience Portal (DEP).

- Collaboration: we facilitate collaboration across GSC and other Functions to find solutions to important problems and uphold our cultural norms.

- Excellence: we build and leverage tools, templates, and technologies to provide strategic thought leadership and best practices.

The COE has two teams each performing complimentary roles in support of GSC. This Director role will lead the Sourcing Excellence team. 

The Sourcing Excellence team's key stakeholders are our global and market strategic sourcing teams across both Food and Services categories. Our vision is to be a trusted catalyst of innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership for our sourcing teams - aided by a strategic, agile, and data-driven ecosystem.

The Sourcing Excellence team provides process expertise and discipline, acts as a conduit for best practice sharing and enables an agile supply chain. Examples of each area can be summarized as follows:

· Strategic Sourcing Review Process

- Leveraging best practices across the 7 Step Sourcing Framework

- Managing 3rd Party Sourcing Project Support for key sourcing activities, including SSR/RFx, Network Optimizations and Category Research

· Supply Chain Insights & Reporting

- Commodity and Economic Insights & Reporting

- Commodity benchmarking

· Cross-Category Best Practices

- Act as an extension to our Sourcing Teams to identify best practices across key workstreams common to multiple categories. Current examples include our Supplier Engagement Strategy, Pricing Protocols, and expansion of Commodity hedging programs

You will lead a team of six self-starters while increasing visibility and building a pipeline of work across Food and Services.

· Leadership & Strategic Vision: Ability to anticipate trends and guide long-term planning; develop strategy and deliver against team goals

· People Leadership: People management with experience elevating teams by way of visibility and capability

· Stakeholder Management and Influence: Influence and manage a broad range of stakeholders; strong interpersonal skills to drive change without direct authority

· Communication: Demonstrate exceptional ability to communicate with clarity, purpose, and empathy across all levels of the organization, and create a shared sense of ownership across the team

· Proactivity, Creativity and Agility: Ability to proactively identify creative solutions and flexibility to manage evolving priorities

· Operational Acumen: Experience in managing multiple complex projects simultaneously and optimizing performance

· Analytical Thinking: Data-driven decision-making and problem-solving

· Category Management: Prior category management experience is preferred but not essential

· Industry Experience: 5+ years in supply chain, sourcing, or risk management

· Industry and Product Knowledge: Experience with various food or service categories. McDonald's Global Supply Chain and market supply chains is a plus.

Bonus Eligible: YES

Long - Term Incentive: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

The expected salary range for this role is $168, $210,265.00 per year

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.  

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance. 

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald's long-term incentive plan. 

McDonald's is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald's provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis. 

McDonald's provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

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