Senior Manager of Strategic Procurement, Car Wash

Driven Brands™, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is the parent company of some of North America’s leading automotive aftermarket brands including Take 5 Oil Change, Meineke Car Care Centers, Automotive Training Institute, Maaco, CARSTAR, ABRA, Uniban, Car Wash US, FIX Automotive, 1-800-Radiator & A/C and PH Vitres d’Autos. Driven Driven Brands has more than 4,000 centers across 15 countries, and combined, all businesses generate approximately $3.8 billion in system-wide sales and service over 50 million vehicles annually.

Driven Brands is the quintessential growth company, more than tripling its revenues, brands, employees, and profits over the past six years. The primary focuses of the company are growing its franchisee’s profitability, all brands’ unit count and creating opportunities for its employees, franchisees, and investors. Our culture of meritocracy inspires high performance and innovation among our employees. We enable our employees and franchisees to go further, faster— generating growth for our franchisees' businesses and our employees' careers. For more information, visit drivenbrands.com.

The Procurement segment of DrivenBrands is focused on delivering EBITDA through a combination of vendor rebates on corporate and franchisee spend, margin on product sales to franchisees and third parties, and cost savings to corporate-owned retail locations. As the Senior Manager for Strategic Procurement in the Car Wash segment, this role will be responsible for, among other things: identifying and sizing procurement-related opportunities in Car Wash, developing and scaling pilot programs in partnership with vendor or internal partners, improving purchasing processes and identifying technology gaps and solutions, and increase Procurement spend under management. This role reports directly to the Vice President of Category Management and will have significant exposure to the Executive Team at Driven Brands.

• Identifying and developing opportunities to increase DrivenBrands EBITDA related to purchasing and franchisee/3^rd party sales in direct and indirect categories
• Identifying and scaling programs in the Car Wash segment in categories, such as chemicals, equimpent and supplies to increase vendor rebates, or savings at corporately-owned locations. These programs may be in partnership with strategic vendors and/or internal partners
• Determining capabilities improvements and investments required to further grow Procurement spend under management
• Partnering internally with Car Wash executives and personnel to ensure new construction needs are met and partnering with vendors on potential new equipment or design changes

• Undergraduate degree required
• 3 years experience in consulting or strategic sourcing, exposure to retail, services or automotive preferred
• Experience in designing and implementing sales or cost reduction programs beginning with data analyses
• Strong analytical, logical structuring, and problem solving skills
• Ability to turn data on internal spend/sales, external market analyses into actionable insights
• Self-starter that excels in a performance driven environment
• Strong skills with Office products suite (Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word). Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel required; experience with BI tools/databases is a major plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate/present to executive-level leaders
• Up to 25% travel