As Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, North America, Bob is responsible for executing the strategic direction of McDonald’s Supply Chain, including oversight of nearly $14 billion in food and beverage, equipment, packaging and premiums, and distribution for more than 15,000 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada. In this role his primary focus is developing strong teams to drive business results, in quality and food safety, strategic sourcing and cost management, logistics and supply chain integration, new product commercialization, field execution and supplier diversity

A proud 27 year McDonald’s veteran, Bob Stewart leads the Global Strategic Sourcing Food team responsible for overseeing Global food & beverage spend. Committed to building a responsible supply chain, the GSSF team leverages its Global scale to deliver value and build a resilient Global Supply Chain.Also under Bob’s leadership is the Global Supply Chain & Sustainability Digitalization team. With Digital’s Vision 2025 work underway they are quickly becoming world’s leading Digitally Enabled Supply Chain connecting customers with food they love and trust.

.Bob Stewart is Corporate Vice President leading Global Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing Services. In this role Bob’s team leads Category Strategy for Distribution and Logistics, Kitchen Equipment, Toy’s, Packaging and Procurement & Sourcing services for IT, Marketing, and Development. The team is accountable for creation of global category strategies, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier management for specific global categories and suppliers, consulting with all global markets. Bob also leads the Digitization of Global Supply Chain data aimed at enhancing Supply Chain transparency and optimization.Prior to this role Bob was Vice President, U.S. Supply Chain Services for McDonald’s USA, leading the U.S. Field Supply Chain and Equipment Systems teams and managing categories including fashion apparel, packaging, kitchen equipment and toy purchases as well as logistics and distribution for nearly 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants. Additionally, Bob led the relationship with our Supply Chain Franchisee advisory council (National Supply Leadership Council) and managed the McDonald’s Supplier Diversity strategy for the U.S. Supply Chain.During his 25 years at McDonald’s Bob has worked in a variety of roles within the U.S. and our international markets. Prior to joining the U.S. Supply Chain team, Bob supported our international markets which included the role of Director of Latin America Logistics and Purchasing, where he was responsible for Latin American logistics strategy and purchasing for Colombia and Venezuela. Bob has pioneered Supply Chain initiatives in over 60 countries and supported the openings of multiple new countries in the McDonald’s system..