senior sourcing manager, Beverage Ingredients (Nashville HQ)

Now Brewing – #tobeapartner From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others. At Starbucks, the Senior Sourcing Manager shapes and executes sourcing strategies that connect business needs with supplier capabilities to drive long-term value. The role serves as a strategic partner across the organization, building alignment among stakeholders, navigating competing priorities, and leveraging supplier relationships to unlock innovation, strengthen supply resiliency, and support business growth. Through effective collaboration, influence, and commercial leadership, this position helps deliver sustainable results while protecting supply and advancing Starbucks' strategic objectives. As a senior sourcing manager, you will… • Lead Strategic Sourcing & Business Growth: Develop and execute multi-year sourcing strategies that drive business growth, align with company objectives, and incorporate stakeholder needs, market insights, sustainability, ethical sourcing, and supplier diversity considerations. • Deliver Value Through Supplier Partnerships: Build and execute value creation strategies by leveraging deep category expertise, supplier relationships, market intelligence, and innovation to drive cost savings, margin protection, operational excellence, and long-term business value. • Ensure Supply Continuity & Risk Management: Lead contract negotiations, supplier performance management, and risk mitigation efforts to protect supply, strengthen supplier partnerships, and ensure resilient, compliant, and efficient supply chain operations. We’d love to hear from people with: Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary): • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or other related fields preferred. • Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 4+ years sourcing experience. Skills (minimum skills required): • Sourcing Foundations: Intermediate knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations. • Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve. • Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and senior management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership. • Project Management: Highly effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure. Proactively mitigates situations before they become issues. Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder. • Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management. • Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (i.e. certificates), learning more about broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers. • Other: Intermediate to Master in MS