Sr Manager Sourcing Seafood

About the role

This role will be responsible of growing the scope of collaboration in Mexico and Central America from its current level to include additional services such as negotiation preparation/ should cost analysis through developing synergies and coordinating of procurement with other countries/ business units

What you´ll do:

• Sourcing strategy development to align with merchant’s strategies.

• Identification of new business opportunities and products

• Managing seafood negotiations in partner with associates based in Asia

• Opening and developing new origins of seafood, screening, development, and onboarding of new suppliers in collaboration with cross functional teams

• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to assure correct product flow and on time deliveries.

• Resolution of issues with suppliers

• Sharing best practices and developing new processes and ways of working

• Analysis and communication of industry and commodity trends to merchant partners

• Supporting sustainability initiatives

• Assuring supplier compliance and up to date audits in collaboration with cross functional teams

What you´ll bring

• Previous experience in seafood category preferred

• Project Management experience

• Good negotiation skills

• Good communication and presentation skills in English.

Company Summary

Walmart established the Sourcing Division to closely work with and support all Walmart business divisions in the United States and International markets. We develop and maintain a fully integrated supply chain that provides critical support to our retail locations across the globe, with a customer-centric platform that connects all our global segments with products and solutions at the best value.

We stay true to Walmart’s mission of saving people money so they can live better. We drive price-leadership and speed-to-market strategies through optimizing our global footprint. With a customer-centricity mindset, we make sourcing easier, applying design thinking and an agile mindset to improve processes and user experiences in a seamless manner. We make sourcing in a global environment more predictive and supply chain transactions more automated. Partnering with the best suppliers around the globe strategically, we continue to add incremental value for our global partners and ultimately our end-consumer.

We help power Walmart’s ecosystem by making sourcing easier and seamless.