• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of recruiters focused on the Indian region. • Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent for Gen AI projects. • Collaborate with the Global Sourcing Manager to ensure alignment with overall global talent acquisition goals. • Provide regular updates to the Global Sourcing Manager on sourcing progress and challenges within the Indian region.

• Research, identify and connect with renewable energy project developers in Vietnam • Collect, monitor and interpret data from multiple sources to develop actionable intelligence and reach out to potential clients • Support in proposal preparation, calling and follow up with potential clients • Plan and coordinate development of a market research strategy • Identify key sources of information including online/offline and social media channels • Monitor, collect and interpret data • Create informative, actionable and repeatable reporting that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for new business • Conduct insightful, ad hoc analyses on on-going or one-time issues • Suggest changes to senior management using analytics to support your recommendations • Support and influence data driven decision making • Represent company at conferences, tradeshows and online

• Develop and implement regional sourcing strategies aligned with global category strategies • Manage end-to-end sourcing (RFx, negotiation, contracting) across indirect categories • Identify cost-saving opportunities and deliver annual productivity targets • Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships across Asia • Lead supplier evaluation, selection, and performance management (KPIs, SLAs) • Drive supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement • Partner with business leaders (Finance, HR, IT, Operations) to understand requirements • Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders on sourcing strategies and market insights • Manage cross-functional alignment across multiple countries • Ensure compliance with company procurement policies and governance (e.g., Ariba, ERP systems) • Lead contract negotiations to secure favorable commercial and legal terms • Mitigate risks related to supply continuity, legal, and regulatory requirements • Manage sourcing activities across multiple Asia countries (SEA, India, China, etc.) • Drive standardization, process improvements, and best practices across the region • Support transformation initiatives (digital procurement, automation, analytics) • Deliver cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation targets • Monitor spend analytics and identify optimization opportunities • Report sourcing performance to regional/global leadership

This role is segmented as Hybrid. You will be onsite in Rosemont, IL 3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday) and Virtual Monday and Friday. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Liaise with the Category Management Team, Vendor Partners, Divisions, Vendor Administration, National Contracts Administration and National SIS to assure overall integrity of the contracts. - Solicits and verifies current product pricing from Category Management Team in order to perform basic analysis to determine customer-specific pricing (for the designated agreement term). - Solicits and verifies vendor support, as necessary. - Ensures contract creation, review, approval, and execution take place per SOP’s, ensuring the contract process runs in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner. - Performs analysis for a large volume of contract renewals and audits each month (averages 100-200 renewals per month, could be several hundred items in various categories). - Audits all renewals to verify items were correctly implemented in the system. Submits all audit forms as documentation of the audit within SOP’s. Alerts central processing center of any discrepancies and ensures they are corrected. - Be responsible for contract activities involved in vendor status changes, and product assortment – or detail – changes. Revise customer contracts accordingly, and as appropriate. - Plans and carries out recurring work using established procedures, conferring with the supervisor or higher-level analysts as necessary on technical problems or concerns. - Maintains official contract file for each customer and prepares routine letters and other documents associated with contract administration in an organized and consistent manner.  - Processes contract modifications, including obtaining and evaluating customer proposals, participating in and documenting negotiations, preparing and inputting modifications, and generating all associated documents for approval. RELATIONSHIPS Internal: Works closely with Category Management, Processing Center Support, Legal and across all levels of Corporate and Division personnel. External: Works closely with vendor partners and national customers to ensure contract compliance. QUALIFICATIONS Education / Training: - High School Diploma required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred. Related Experience: - 3 years of experience in any of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, supply management, quantitative methods, marketing or management. Experience in a foodservice/distribution setting a plus. T - he ideal candidate will have experience working within a supply chain operation and familiarity with basic procurement processes (including understanding product and logistic cost structural factors). Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: - Must demonstrate a high degree of effective written and verbal communication, high attention to detail. - Must possess excellent organizational skills and be able to take the initiative. Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel – including experience utilizing excel functions such as VLOOKUPS and pivot tables - Word and Outlook, and be familiar with PowerPoint and Access. - Ability to work independently. Exceptional candidates will have complete life cycle experience working with contracts and supporting vendors, suppliers and category management.  This role will also receive an annual incentive plan bonus.​ ​Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.