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We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation - working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to \"activate awesome\" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.\nJOB SUMMARY\nAs the Associate Sourcing Manager, you will support sourcing activities and processes for Private Brands and/or Fresh Food categories. This includes requirements gathering, spend and market analysis, RFx development and execution, proposal evaluation, supplier capability assessment, contract support, supplier onboarding, and ongoing supplier management. This role supports Sourcing Managers, Directors, and cross-functional business partners in executing sourcing plans that improve cost, quality, service, speed to market, and risk management while ensuring compliance with 7-Eleven sourcing policies and processes.\nKEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES\nExecute 7-Eleven sourcing processes for assigned categories, including data and spend analysis, market research, scoping, bidding, contract support, compliance, and supplier management activities.\nBuild and maintain collaborative relationships with Product Development, Supply Chain, Legal, and other cross-functional stakeholders to support sourcing execution and business goals.\nSupport development and execution of RFx/sourcing events, including supplier discovery, bid analysis, scenario modeling, stakeholder feedback, and negotiation preparation.\nSupport contract development, negotiations, and renewals with suppliers, partnering with Legal and sourcing leadership on pricing, performance measures, service requirements, supplier accountability, remedies, termination options, and total cost of ownership while reducing risk.\nResearch potential domestic and international suppliers and support evaluation of supplier capability, capacity, lead times, compliance readiness, cost structure, and fit for assigned business needs.\nParticipate in cross-functional discussions with stakeholders, provide clear progress updates, and help translate sourcing priorities into actionable next steps.\nBuild and analyze financial models, including proposal comparisons, cost scenarios, market benchmarks, and supplier recommendations, and present findings in a clear and concise format.\nKEY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES\nUnderstand leadership direction, company strategy, and category priorities, and translate them into clear sourcing actions, project support, and stakeholder follow-through.\nUse data, market insight, supplier information, and stakeholder input to assess business needs, identify root causes, develop practical solutions, and make informed recommendations.\nCommunicate sourcing updates, analysis, risks, and recommendations clearly, tailoring the level of detail to the audience and making complex topics easy to understand.\nAbility to work well with business stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-functional partners in a fast-paced, self-directed environment.\nAdapt to changing business needs, learn new category details quickly, identify dependencies, and help create clarity around sourcing priorities, timelines, and next steps.\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE\nEDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) strongly preferred.\nYEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: Minimum of 3+ years required\nSPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS\nDemonstrated ability to build and analyze financial models to evaluate proposal scenarios, cost impacts, market benchmarks, landed cost considerations, and supplier recommendations.\nStrong organizational skills and foundational understanding of legal aspects, negotiating skills, purchasing terminology, cost analysis, supplier compliance, and contract administration.\nExperience in Private Brands, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, fresh food, food service, retail merchandising, and/or food packaging.\nA clear understanding of logistics, route to market, production lead times, and material specifications around retail product and food packaging.\nExposure to domestic and/or import sourcing concepts preferred, including lead-time planning, landed cost components, tariff and duty impacts, logistics handoffs, supplier compliance, and broker or trading partner models.\nProficient with MS Office suite, including Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint; ability to use data, templates, and reporting tools to support sourcing decisions and stakeholder updates.\nStrong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate with internal stakeholders, team members, suppliers, and cross-functional partners.\nIf an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. 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