Global Strategic Sourcing Manager for Marketing

As Global Strategic Sourcing Manager for Marketing youll own the sourcing strategies for a significant global marketing spend portfolio with a primary focus on Creative and Production categories across JDE Peets global brand portfolio. Reporting to the Global Strategic Sourcing Director Indirect youll develop and execute robust sourcing strategies while building strong supplier partnerships that enable marketing excellence innovation agility and value creation across the organisation.

This is a role for someone with sharp commercial instincts deep understanding of the advertising ecosystem and strong expertise across creative content production and agency operating models. You will operate in a highly dynamic global matrix environment where strategic thinking influence and commercial impact are critical.

We are looking for a highly experienced procurement leader with strong marketing industry intelligence and a deep understanding of the global agency and production landscape including creative agencies production companies digital content partners influencer ecosystems and emerging AI-enabled creative models. The successful candidate combines procurement excellence with strong marketing acumen and the ability to translate industry trends agency economics and evolving marketing models into competitive sourcing strategies and impactful negotiation outcomes.

What youll be doing:

• Develop and execute robust global sourcing strategies for Creative and Production categories delivering cost savings value creation operational efficiency and risk management across the marketing ecosystem
• Lead strategic category planning across key marketing spend areas including creative agencies integrated campaigns digital content production social content adaptation and transcreation ecommerce content influencer production and studio models
• Build and manage strategic supplier relationships driving continuous improvement and positioning JDE as a customer of choice across the global marketing supplier ecosystem
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior Marketing Brand Procurement and Finance stakeholders by bringing strong external market insights agency intelligence benchmarking commercial innovation and negotiation strategies
• Identify productivity opportunities while balancing creativity quality innovation speed-to-market and business impact
• Monitor advertising industry trends evolving agency models AI-driven creative transformation and emerging supplier capabilities to proactively shape sourcing strategies
• Collaborate closely with Media and Marketing Technology procurement teams to support integrated marketing and connected ecosystem decisions
• Ensure compliance risk management and continuous delivery against procurement and business targets

Qualifications :

• 6 years of procurement or strategic sourcing experience across Marketing Creative Production or Agency categories in a global environment
• Strong knowledge of the advertising ecosystem including agency operating models production economics scopes of work and commercial frameworks
• Proven experience negotiating complex agreements with global creative agencies production companies and marketing suppliers
• Strong track record delivering cost and value results in a complex fast-paced international environment
• Experience developing category strategies
• Excellent negotiation supplier and project management stakeholder influencing and communication skills
• Strong commercial mindset combined with curiosity about advertising innovation digital transformation and AI-enabled marketing models
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and dynamic environments with high expectations and multiple priorities
• Degree level education; MBA or further qualification preferred

Additional Information :

Your application at JDE Peets
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JDE Peets - now part of Keurig Dr Pepper is the worlds leading pure-play coffee company with a presence in more than 100 markets. Guided by our Reignite the Amazing strategy we are focused on brand-led growth across three big bets: Peets LOR and our 10 strategically selected local icons led by Jacobs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Department / Functional Area: Procurement
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1