Overview

Reporting to Repligen’s Procurement & Sourcing, Sr Director, position requires a driven individual whose knowledge and skills will help us take our Procurement & Sourcing team to the next level. This position is responsible for $100M direct material spend, and all activities relative to adequate sourcing of Repligen’s good and services. Must have experience with commodity-based materials (i.e., plastics, metals). This position supports all New product introduction material, including Sourcing engagements and provides core expertise for Source to Contract, supplier Performance Management, Financial Management, Relationship Management, and Risk Management lifecycles.

Our diverse and vertically integrated manufacturing footprint, you will lead and support the development of strategies, processes, and talent to ensure the robustness of sourced materials and their timely procurement while fostering supplier partnerships that result in win-win total landed cost improvements.

Responsibilities

Reporting to Repligen’s Procurement & Sourcing, Sr Director, position requires a driven individual whose knowledge and skills will help us take our Procurement & Sourcing team to the next level. This position is responsible for $100M direct material spend, and all activities relative to adequate sourcing of Repligen’s good and services. Must have experience with commodity-based materials (i.e., plastics, metals). This position supports all New product introduction material, including Sourcing engagements and provides core expertise for Source to Contract, supplier Performance Management, Financial Management, Relationship Management, and Risk Management lifecycles.

Our diverse and vertically integrated manufacturing footprint, you will lead and support the development of strategies, processes, and talent to ensure the robustness of sourced materials and their timely procurement while fostering supplier partnerships that result in win-win total landed cost improvements.

Position major responsibilities:

· Direct accountability for Sourcing engagements while creating and driving collaboration with site procurement teams, and stakeholders, including finance, supply chain, manufacturing R&D, quality, warehousing, and product management, as well as external vendors to optimize value, savings and cost avoidance.

· Accountable for the Sourcing lifecycle (Source to Contract) from stakeholder requirement definition, sourcing, competitive bidding, executing contracts and finalizing with adequate purchase order placement.

· Champion a three-year pipeline of savings and value plans in alignment with business and or corporate strategies that delivers sustainable procurement value and or productivity.

· Generates and leads cost management efforts with teams and critical suppliers, driving cost savings and other value-added activities across the entire supply base.

· Strong alignment with R&D/Engineering Teams, allowing the adequate initiation of sourcing and procurement activities during New Product Introduction processes (NPI)

· Negotiate agreements with strategic suppliers to promote guaranteed cost reductions through productivity improvements and reducing non-value elements in the supply chain.

· Responsible for the development of sourcing processes to organize and analyze spend data. Determine opportunities and priorities to leverage growth and volumes across all sites, product segments and implement contracts where appropriate.

· Ensures Procurement & Sourcing processes are effective and deploys efficient Sourcing and procurement processes across the entire procurement talent base. Responsible for disseminating knowledge in the form of best practices, market intelligence and supplier management across the procurement organization.

· Establishing and maintaining the metrics and mechanisms to monitor and measure performance and success

· Manages direct reports including coaching and mentoring employees in the performance of daily duties, establishes performance standards, and provides support to ensure job results meet expectations,

· Consistently works with teams on continuous improvement opportunities to reduce site transactional aspects of procurement and supplier management

· Along with Site Procurement, builds and maintains multi-year support roadmaps for all key suppliers

· Serve as a thought partner and actively challenge work to deploy the most comprehensive and creative solutions; remove barriers for team to ensure its ability to execute.

· Leads and tracks procurement performance against KPIs. Reports on KPI progress while also addressing opportunities for improvement and operational efficiencies.

· Participates in the planning and forecasting process to establish standard costs and provide explanations for Material inflation and price variances (PPV) at site level.

· Lead Supplier Performance Management (SPM) with key suppliers and manage the quarterly scorecard to review service level on cost, technology, quality, service, and flexibility.

· Works with Procurement and Sourcing at the site, assist in the development of a strategic sourcing and procurement training program which documents best practices in strategic sourcing, procurement, negotiations and contracting

· As a member of the Procurement Leadership Team, serves as the lead in the development and implementation of strategy, priorities, and goals/objectives related to procurement’s required infrastructure.

Traits we believe make a strong candidate

· B.s. degree or equivalent experience; degree in supply chain management/operations a plus.

· 10 years business experience

· Excellent partnering and negotiation skills

· Understanding of the true total cost of ownership impact of decisions and ability to build clear business cases to support the collective efforts required to achieve sourcing savings

· Ability to coach and mentor diverse team members to understand risks and opportunities within daily tasks

· Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to set context, simplify complex concepts, and drive diverse teams to decision and action.

· Ability to demonstrate effective prioritization skills in a fast-paced, team environment under time constraints.

· Ability to effectively lead and facilitate meetings with cross functional teams and drive appropriate actions.

Your success will be measured by:

· Ability to partner with suppliers in a variety of ways that secure our supply and deepens competitive advantages

· Ability to demonstrate YOY cost savings

· Establishment of processes, systems, analytics, and culture that standardize and failsafe the sustained execution of best-in-class sourcing and procurement

· Contribution to production efficiency and on time delivery through successful vendor management

· Timely execution of returns, dispositions, and other inventory health activities

· Great 360-degree communication

· Accountability for results and respectful/open expression of ideas and viewpoints.

· Never satisfied with the status quo.

· Team-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

· B.s. degree or equivalent experience; degree in supply chain management/operations a plus.

· 10 years business experience

· Excellent partnering and negotiation skills

· Understanding of the true total cost of ownership impact of decisions and ability to build clear business cases to support the collective efforts required to achieve sourcing savings

· Ability to coach and mentor diverse team members to understand risks and opportunities within daily tasks

· Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to set context, simplify complex concepts, and drive diverse teams to decision and action.

· Ability to demonstrate effective prioritization skills in a fast-paced, team environment under time constraints.

· Ability to effectively lead and facilitate meetings with cross functional teams and drive appropriate actions.