Strategic Sourcing Manager - Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability/ESG

Carnival Corporation seeks a Strategic Sourcing Manager for Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability/ESG in Miami, FL. This role involves supporting the sourcing strategy and sustainability initiatives across the supply chain, collaborating with various teams to enhance ESG efforts. The ideal candidate should have strong project management skills and experience in supplier sustainability programs. This position is remote and offers insights into operations across Carnival's global brands.
Job Description

This position will report directly to the Director Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability and will be critical in supporting our Sourcing & Supply Chain department strategy for Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability (RSS) including Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) in alignment with our broader corporate goals. As a department, we partner and collaborate with all Operating Companies to effectively leverage our scale, simplify the supplier base, reduce total cost of ownership, create value, and drive improvement. In helping drive the company's Sustainability platform across Sourcing and Supply Chain, the RSS Category Manager will also be responsible for supporting the sustainability strategy and program initiatives, progress monitoring, internal and external communications support while ensuring that the sustainability category strategy is executed across applicable sourcing, contracting, supplier relationship management, and cross functional activity reporting efforts.

The ideal candidate needs to have excellent project management skills, the ability to translate business requirements into goals and metrics, ability to generate support for programs amongst stakeholders, be knowledgeable in strategic sourcing and vendor management, have previous work experience in supporting supplier sustainability programs and organizing a diverse group of internal contributors and stakeholders to achieve objectives. This position will support Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability efforts for all spend categories across our $10B+ of annual spend, including but not limited to: Technical, Food & Beverage, Hotel, Onboard Revenue, Corporate Indirect, Air Travel, IT, Fuel, and Logistics. This position will provide a great opportunity to learn about the operations across our 9 global brands. This position will remote.

Essential Functions:

ESG Strategy & Program Implementation
• Support Director and GSLT to define clear strategy, objectives, and roadmap for Environmental (Sustainability), Social (Supplier Diversity/Skills Training & Dev), Governance (Policy, Risk Management, Ethics & Compliance) in support of the broader company goals.
• Partner with Global and Brand Sustainability, Compliances, & Ethics teams to manage current goals and plan for future ESG needs impacting Sourcing and Supply chain (including resource and technology recommendations)
• Support assessment of current and map future state of ESG activities across department partnering with Sourcing, Supply Chain and Sustainability leaders to set standards where required and modify as needed.
• Support strategy and roadmap to develop and deliver proactive ESG programs which achieve the set KPI's as well as influence culture and behaviors
• Lead key ESG programs managing all aspects of delivery, including team member accountability, and influencing stakeholders driving action and clarity to achieve commitments and comply with global regulations
• Work with functional category owners to drive key ESG initiatives in the supply base.

ESG PMO and Reporting
• Define, align, and manage to ESG sourcing targets and KPI's in collaboration with functional category owners across all categories
• Work with category teams to define and align project priorities, targets, and project plans for major projects
• Support executive reporting across ESG programs to track progress against targets and relevant KPI's, issues and risks.
• Understand overall status as it relates to savings, status, risks, and needs, and be able to proactively identify solutions to program problems and escalate issues as needed
• Prepare presentations and communications for internal and external updates and syndicate ongoing progress with broad set of stakeholders (e.g., brands, sourcing, ops, etc.)

ESG Policies/Capabilities & Training/Culture
• Ensure clear ESG policies and procedures are developed and maintained across all Brands, considering the different starting points across our Brands.
• Support change management efforts (e.g., communication, training, job aides) to ensure that the new policies & procedures are understood and applied by sourcing employees
• Partner with the Global Sourcing Leadership to understand current training/ skills gaps and ensure that identified ESG training needs are delivered to defined schedule.
• Establish internal stakeholder and supplier development, training/ mentoring programs to educate on ESG processes and requirements. (e.g., Sustainability, Compliance & Regulatory, 7-step sourcing, leadership skills, project management, etc.)
• Partner with internal training or external resources to develop the training materials and to coordinate the deployment training.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the training and recommend adjustments as needed
• Support change management efforts to ensure that content is understood and applied by sourcing employees
• Reinforce and strengthen the ESG culture at every opportunity with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications:
• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree
• Discipline/Major: BS degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Supplier Diversity & Sustainability, Environmental Policy, Engineering or a related field
• Required Years and Area of Professional Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience in sustainability, procurement, sourcing or related field
• Critical Professional Related Technical/Computer Skills: Excellent data and analytics execution skills (e.g., complex TCO modelling) and robust experience with ERP procurement and data visualization tools (e.g., Spend Visibility, Tableau, etc.)
• Other Requirements: Subject matter expertise in Supplier Sustainability and demonstrated experience with building and running supplier sustainability programs.
• Persuasive and convincing communication and presentation skills with ability to engage senior executives to influence decisions.
• Preferred Education: BS degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Supplier Diversity & Sustainability, Environmental Policy, Engineering or a related field

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Achieving Results- Demonstrates commitment, determination, energy and accountability in delivering quality outputs

Collaboration- Facilitates team working, supports and encourages others. Able to work with all functions in the business, keen ability to Influence and motivate stakeholders

Effective Communications Skills- Communicates clearly both orally and in writing, ability to write and implement Sustainability and other Governance procedures, ability to deliver effective training

Travel: Less than 25% non-shipboard travel likely.

The range for this role's salary is $75,900-$130,000. Offers to the selected candidates will be made on a fair and equitable basis, taking into account specific job-related skills and experience.

At Carnival, your total rewards package is much more than your base salary. All non-sales roles participate in an annual cash bonus program, while sales roles have an incentive plan. Director and above roles may also be eligible to participate in Carnival's discretionary equity incentive plan. Plus, Carnival provides comprehensive and innovative benefits to meet your needs, including:
• Health Benefits:
• Cost-effective medical, dental and vision plans
• Employee Assistance Program and other mental health resources
• Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability coverage
• Financial Benefits:
• 401(k) plan that includes a company match
• Employee Stock Purchase plan
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays - All full-time and part-time with benefits employees receive days off for 7 company-wide holidays, plus an additional floating holiday to be taken at the employee's discretion.
• Vacation Time - All full-time employees at the manager and below level start with 14 days/year; director and above level start with 19 days/year. Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 84 hours/year. All employees gain additional vacation time with further tenure.
• Sick Time - All full-time employees receive 80 hours of sick time each year. Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 60 hours each year.
• Other Benefits
• Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises, plus special rates for family and friends
• Personal and professional learning and development resources including tuition reimbursement
• On-site preschool program, wellness center, and health clinic at our Miami campus

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About Us

In addition to other duties/functions, this position requires full commitment and support for promoting ethical and compliant culture. More specifically, this position requires integrity, honesty, and respectful treatment of others, as well as a willingness to speak up when they see misconduct or have concerns.

Carnival Corporation & plc is a global cruise company and one of the largest vacation companies in the world. Our portfolio of leading cruise brands includes Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Seabourn in North America; P&O Cruises, and Cunard Line in the United Kingdom; AIDA in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe; and P&O Cruises in Australia. Our employees have a responsibility to be accountable for all actions. We consider the environment in all aspects of our business and have a responsibility to put safety and sustainability first. We live and share a positive attitude which is based on fostering an environment of inclusion, trust, a willingness to listen, openness and integrity.

Carnival Corporation & plc and Carnival Cruise Line is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer. In this regard, it does not discriminate against any qualified individual on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, mental, physical or sensory disability or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, federal and/or international law.

Benefits as a member of Carnival's Team:
• A comprehensive benefit program which includes medical, dental and vision plans
• Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability coverage and a 401(k) plan that includes a company match
• Employee Stock Purchase plan
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Cruise benefits
• An on-site fully accredited preschool educational program located at our Doral campus
• An on-site Wellness Center and Health clinic at our Doral campus

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