Sourcing Category Manager, Food & Beverage

Cinemark•Plano, TX

About The Position

As part of our Cinemark Universe, you'll discover fun opportunities with real growth potential and plenty of perks. With 500+ theatres and nearly 6,000 screens; we're truly a global presence of 20,000 movie lovers working together to make unforgettable experiences. Role Summary: The Category Manager – Food & Beverage (“F&B”) plays a key role in managing Cinemark’s F&B spend category, by executing the business strategy that delivers value through total cost of ownership and helps ensure that Cinemark has a reliable supply. This role involves developing and executing category management, spend analytics, sourcing, contract negotiations, and other procurement/P2P activities. Supports a number of divisions at the company as a procurement leadership resource to improve quality, maximize customer service, value creation, and reduce supplier cost.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, and/or Accounting related fields.
At least 7 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management with extensive focus on F&B-related categories.
Strong presence and credibility as a category expert with capability to influence a wide range of groups and individuals to actively support a point of view or position.
Demonstrates ability to secure “buy-in” of others who may hold a contrary view.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities, capable of working effectively across all levels of the organization and with external partners.
Proven ability to operate strategically and tactically in a dynamic environment.
Excellent interpersonal, influencing, analytical and presentation skills matching an ability to act with enthusiasm and flexibility in a constantly evolving and collaborative environment.
Must have experience working with cross-functional teams and multiple clients with competing demands.
Must be an innovative problem solver.
Advanced experience with MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint) is required.
Ability to travel up to 25%

Responsibilities

Design and execute a robust category strategy, for select categories, that aligns with Cinemark’s broader business goals and delivers measurable value.
Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity in all supplier interactions ensuring accountability, service excellence and long-term collaboration.
Owns the full Sourcing lifecycle, from market research and RFP management to bid evaluation and contract finalization.
Gains the respect and trust of departmental spend owners to uncover and implement impactful cost optimization opportunities through strategic sourcing, license model evaluations, and supplier consolidation efforts.
Works closely with the other areas of Procurement to develop strategies for reducing total costs, improving transactional efficiencies, and improving supplier performance.
Develop, negotiate and administer contracts for key suppliers; manage supplier base.
Develops and implements best practices in the areas of supply market intelligence, sourcing, performance management and process improvements.
Collaborates with leaders to establish short-term and long-term business objectives for the procurement function.
Assists and leads in the continued development and implementation of the company’s procurement vision and strategy.
Directs and implements appropriate corporate and departmental policies and procedures, establishes category goals and objectives which best meet the requirements of the company and operating departments; evaluates the progress toward achieving these goals.
Promotes excellent customer services by maintaining communications with departments regarding category opportunities, market analysis, and risk management.
Remains competent and current through self-directed professional reading, developing professional contacts with colleagues, attending professional development and training courses.
Perform other duties as assigned.