Mary Ward is a Director Strategic Sourcing at Grocery Outlet. She possess expertise in procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, supply management, retail and 20 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Mary is the lead agent in our buying cooperative that merges variable purchasing needs and objectives from disimilar members by finding and translating to a common ground. From that basis, she then leads the cooperative's team in negotiating or holding bid events that take that common ground to as many manufacturer bidders as practical. Then summarizes the results for the members and the manufacturers as well to keep balance in the process."