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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 be responsible for sourcing/procurement related activities and processes associated with the acquisition of products and services, which will include store equipment (store fixtures, food & beverage equipment, refrigeration, HVAC, signage, parts and building materials) as well as related services, including Asset Protection This includes requirements gathering, creating and issuing Request for Proposal (RFP), proposal evaluation, contract negotiations, contract drafting and administration with the goal to improve spend and quality performance. This role supports Sourcing Managers or Directors and ensures compliance with 7-Eleven sourcing policies and processes. As an Associate Sourcing Manager, you will partner with business stakeholders and suppliers to execute procurement/sourcing activities while building collaborative relationships to deliver improved cost and service levels.\nKEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES\nExecutes 7-Eleven sourcing processes which include data/spend analysis, strategic planning and market research, scoping, bidding, contract negotiations and execution, compliance, and supplier management activities for assigned categories.\nBuild and maintain collaborative relationships with cross functional stakeholders to develop and execute sourcing processes that support business goals\nBuild and execute various RFx/sourcing events, performing bid analysis and providing feedback to stakeholders and collaborate on negotiation strategies.\nManage suppliers/contractors based on specifications and contractual requirements to ensure effective execution, implementation and prompt resolution of any issues that may arise. \nNegotiate contracts and contract renewals with suppliers to source/procure products or services needed for categories to optimize spend, reduce risk, achieve favorable terms and drive towards optimized total-cost-of-ownership.\nIdentify/interview potential suppliers and evaluate supplier capabilities to determine if supplier is qualified to produce and/or supply products or services. Perform market research in applicable areas.\nAbility to support legal in key contract negotiations such as pricing, performance measures, and breach of contract remedies and termination options.\nParticipate in cross-functional discussions with stakeholders. Provide clear and concise progress updates.\nDemonstrate ability to build and analyze financial models to evaluate proposal scenarios and present recommendations in a clear and concise format.\nKEY LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES\nAbility to work well with both business stakeholders and suppliers, in a fast-paced, self-directed environment.\nUnderstand leaders’ intent and strategic goals and how to translate that into actions that needs to be taken\nAbility to provide suggestions and collaborate with team and stakeholders to solve problems by assessing the situation, leveraging and analyzing relevant data, identifying root cause and developing potential solutions.\nAdapt to change, ability to quickly learn details of new business challenges and identify dependencies and impacts of other key initiatives.\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\nDemonstrate ability to build and analyze financial models to evaluate proposal scenarios and present recommendations in a clear and concise format.\nStrong organizational skills, understanding of legal aspects, negotiating skills, purchasing terminology, cost analysis, and legal compliance regulations\nExperience and background in store equipment (store fixtures, food & beverage equipment, refrigeration, HVAC, signage, parts and building materials) as well as related services, including Asset Protection in retail, food service or restaurants and sourcing/procurement of products/services in this space strongly preferred. \nForecasting and Demand Planning: Coordinate demand forecasting efforts and support day-to-day business as needed. \nSupply Chain Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot and resolve operational and supply chain challenges to ensure timely product availability, consistency and performance. \nSupplier & New Item Setup: Support onboarding of new suppliers and product setups, ensuring compliance and efficient integration. \nProficient with MS Office suite - including MS Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint.\nVerbal and written communication skills that can clearly communicate with various internal stakeholders, team members and suppliers\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. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.\nFor a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in the US for the position, please visit this link.\nFor a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in Canada for the position, please visit this link.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6168,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Ride Hailing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T02:14:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":22,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.49,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":24,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:23","stale_co","urgency","velocity","win:tail","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T15:46:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22787,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13478},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13478"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2F7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2F7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2F7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2F7-eleven-associate-sourcing-manager-store-equipment"}]}