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About the Role
The Procurement Transformation Lead represents the Commercial function in a multi-year transformation, owning its Source-to-Contract impacts across direct and indirect buying. The role ensures all supply and service relationships are contracted correctly during the transformation with minimal disruption, focusing on methodology, principles, and coherence across business units.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the supplier contract inventory across direct and indirect spend, identifying transformation-impacted contracts.
- Classify contracts by impact and define resolution options (assignment, novation, split, mirror contract, or service arrangement).
- Review contract clauses (change-of-control, assignment, exclusivity, minimum-volume), quantify exposure, and agree negotiation approach with Legal.
- Lead a contract renovation program to ensure new contracts and renewals are future-proof.
- Quantify transformation impact on scale and value, propose mitigations, and feed numbers into business cases.
- Drive fair allocation of shared rebates, volume commitments, and transformation costs across Business Units (BUs).
- Define which entity buys what in interim and target operating models, including decision rights and procure-to-pay flows.
- Ensure procurement design is consistent with tax and transfer-pricing requirements and coordinate hedging ownership.
- Design the governance of global frame agreements negotiated centrally.
- Support the harmonization of vendor contracts and terms during business combinations.
- Define required adjustments to Source-to-Contract processes across the functional system landscape.
- Contribute Commercial input to the program masterplan and build playbooks and fast-start guides.
- Lead the supplier communication strategy for execution by country organizations.
- Define readiness criteria and provide Commercial input for go/no-go decisions for deployment waves.
- Act as the single point of contact for Global Procurement category teams and shared services on transformation matters.
- Represent the Commercial function in program and functional governance forums.
- Track and report milestones, dependencies, and risks to program and functional leadership.
Requirements
- Experience in procurement, category management, or sourcing, with exposure to both direct and indirect spend.
- Experience in large-scale transformation, M&A integration, or procurement operating-model change.
- Strong contract-law literacy.
- Experience with ERP and procurement tools (e.g., SAP, Ariba) at requirement-definition level.
- Credibility across business units and ability to hold a common standard without direct authority.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally, structure ambiguous problems, and deliver to hard milestones in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Source-to-Contract
- Contract negotiation
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem structuring
- Project delivery
- ERP systems
- Procurement tools
Location
- UK (London preferred)
- Other Mars locations across Europe
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced procurement leader
Salary/Compensations
- Industry-competitive salary
Benefits
- Company bonus
- Best-in-class learning and development support
- Access to Mars University
About the Company
- Mars is a purpose-driven company striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Associates are guided by the Five Principles.
Equal Opportunity
- Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or who are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process.