The Global Senior Marketing Procurement Manager is a highly visible, strategic role responsible for shaping and leading global marketing procurement efforts. This position partners closely with Brand, Marketing, and National Accounts teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality marketing services and materials at optimal cost, while driving innovation, efficiency, and best-in-class procurement practices across the organization.
This role offers the opportunity to influence global marketing spend, build strong supplier partnerships, lead a talented procurement team, and play a key role in how brands execute and scale marketing initiatives worldwide.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and support cross-functional initiatives focused on improving marketing procurement processes, driving innovation, and delivering measurable business results.
- Develop and execute strategic sourcing initiatives that balance service quality, cost efficiency, and innovation.
- Establish and track procurement KPIs to ensure strong performance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the sourcing and procurement of marketing services and related categories, ensuring best-in-class service at competitive costs.
- Act as a trusted partner to internal stakeholders, providing strategic guidance and support aligned to business objectives.
- Own execution of global procurement strategies, including budget tracking, cost savings, logistics coordination, vendor management, and adoption of procurement tools.
- Lead POS creation, printing, fulfillment, and trafficking, ensuring high quality standards while leveraging scale to maximize efficiency and value.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with integrators and POS suppliers; serve as a key liaison between suppliers and internal teams.
- Lead the Marketing Procurement team in partnership with Brand teams to manage creative execution, timelines, and costs.
- Attend vendor press reviews and approve press runs as needed.
- Stay current on industry trends and innovations in marketing categories such as POS; visit suppliers and attend trade events to identify new opportunities.
- Serve as the primary owner of company-wide marketing procurement processes, including advertising and POS budgets and vendor management.
- Partner with Brand teams and National Accounts to identify agency optimization opportunities and drive efficiencies.
- Review and approve contracts, materials, and workloads, identifying synergies across marketing procurement activities.
- Set clear priorities, KPIs, and role expectations for the Marketing Procurement team.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members while ensuring the structure, capabilities, and resource allocation support business needs.
- Partner with management and leverage the PDS system to support individual development and performance goals.
- Oversee rebate and coupon programs by brand and state, ensuring timely execution, effective clearinghouse processes, and alignment with brand strategy.
- Manage logo and asset storage systems and related processes across platforms such as SharePoint, Dri-View, and Intranet Image Libraries.
- Ensure media libraries containing POS, advertising, and vendor information remain accurate and up to date.
- Collaborate with Brand Managers to ensure consistent brand representation across Dri-View, Vivid, and other systems.
- Communicate brand goals and priorities to Marketing Procurement and Logistics teams.
- Manage updates and enhancements to POS-related websites.
- Actively develop your own career plan while building and leading a high-performing Marketing Procurement team.
- Coach direct reports on career growth and conduct regular CDS meetings to support development and engagement.
