Senior Manager, Indirect Sourcing

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.