Indirect Sourcing Manager

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.

What will you work on?

The Senior Manager, Indirect Sourcing, Europe is the European procurement process champion and commercial leader responsible for managing and directing over USD $100 million in annual non-production spend supporting locations in Europe. Primary spend categories include Information technologies and then other categories like HR, telecommunications, facilities, professional services and travel. Primary internal business partners within Spin Master include leaders and associates from IT, Supply Chain, Product and Brand Marketing, Facilities, Quality, Finance, HR and Legal.

How will you create impact?

Aligning Spin Master needs with non-production supply base to include but not limited to the following elements:

Product / service qualification

Category strategy development

RFx / quotation preparation and commercial negotiation activities

Contract negotiation and management

Cost savings identification and realization

Global alignment and execution of strategies and supplier implementations

Lead and execute category regional category strategy development and execution

Indirect Sourcing P2P process champion:

Deploying new or improved procurement policies, tools and processes

Developing, monitoring and reporting compliance metrics

Ensuring compliance with global category strategy and supplier contracts

Producing and deploying supplier scorecards as appropriate

Sourcing and commercial expert with regards to category and supplier strategies; supplier selection; and commercial / contract negotiations

How will you fit into the team?

The Indirect Sourcing Manager reports to Director, Global Sourcing in Toronto, Canada.

What are your skills and experience?

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, finance, accounting or engineering

10+ years of procurement of indirect goods and services

Experience from the IT industry is an asset

Strong working knowledge of SAP

Expert knowledge of the procure-to-pay process

Procurement / sourcing / supply chain professional certification is an asset

Knowledge of contract law

Experience with contract management

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good financial and business acumen

Able to establish strong business relationships including with executives

Excellent influencing skills

Collaborative and service oriented

Maintains a sense of urgency in resolving issues

Self-starter and able to work without daily supervision

Well-organized with strong project, planning and multitasking ability

Personal and data integrity must be beyond reproach

Fluent in English. Skills in and other European languages is an asset

Able to travel within the region, and occasionally to Toronto, up to 15% of the time

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

Growth and Career Opportunities

Flexible Work Hours

Innovation, Collaboration and Fun

Comprehensive Benefits

Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

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