Starbucks Coffee Company

Business Strategy

Manager without Direct Reports

May 27, 2025

Jun 14, 2025

Yes-Hybrid

$129,000.00 - $120,552.00 Annually

Yes

manager, supply chain strategy – 12 month contract (Hybrid – Toronto)

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From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection.

As a Manager, Strategy, you will be part of a team that grounds every decision we make in truth and insight, builds and operationalizes strategic plans and helps the Canadian business and its partners unlock innovation and growth. This job contributes to Starbucks success by providing strategic and program management leadership for Canada’s Tariffs management & mitigation portfolio, as well as strategic leadership for Canada’s Long-term Supply Chain Strategy, working in close partnership with the Canada and Enterprise Supply Chain teams. In support of these accountabilities, this role helps identify key issues, designs problem solving approaches, works across teams to curate insight, generate hypotheses and create and validate solutions.

As a Manager, Strategy, you will work on high priority, high impact Supply Chain strategies and innovation programs, as well as:

• Strategy & Innovation: Works in partnership across the business on critical innovation priorities. Supports team in problem solving approach design, defining key issues, developing hypotheses, designing required analyses, and driving solutioning and validation efforts.

• Program Management: Understands and supports strategic portfolio management and prioritization and can provide program management support for key strategic initiatives that provide visibility to progress of the highest value work and supports decision making.

• Collaboration: One-team mindset! Excels at scaling impact by effectively working through and with others. Challenges the status quo and inspires partners to achieve business results.

• Communication: Creates structured but dynamic presentations, illustrating key business issues, new insights and recommendations. Shares team recommendations to leadership and can confidently field questions and scale thinking with senior thought partners.
• Partner and Organizational Capability Development: Holds Canadian expertise in Human Centered Design / The Starbucks Way and expands partner capability within and beyond work group.

We’d love to hear from people with:

• Strategic Thinking & Planning: 5-8 years of progressive experience formulating strategy centrally or within functional teams, experience within Supply Chain strongly preferred

• Innovation: Experience in problem identification, solutioning and validation efforts in a cross-functional environment

• Human Centered Design: Experience in Human Centered Design (HCD) and/or The Starbucks Way preferred.

• Analytics and Insights: Capacity to convert data from multiple sources to business driving intelligence

• Communication: Strong presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders across functions, levels and borders

• Planning and Orchestration: Strong project leadership in a cross-functional environment

From free coffee to competitive pay, Starbucks is proud to offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to our eligible part-time and full-time partners. Benefits include tuition reimbursement, health coverage with a variety of plans to choose from, and stock & savings programs like our Future Savings plan and Bean Stock. What’s more, Starbucks offers flexible scheduling and opportunities for paid time off. Visit starbucksbenefits.ca for details.

If you live in the greater Toronto area, we offer a flexible workplace that allows for hybrid work. Partners can work remotely up to two days per week.

Join us and inspire with every cup. Apply today!

At Starbucks, one of our values is to create a culture of warmth and belonging, where we treat each other with dignity and care in a diverse and welcoming workplace. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving our customers from diverse communities.

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