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Job Summary
The Sr. Site Procurement Leader role will serve as the strategic procurement oversight and subject matter expert for sourcing goods and services needs for GAF sites. They will report to the Procurement Excellence Team. This role will be a key face of procurement excellence for Indirect Procurement activities at their assigned Operating Sites. They will ensure streamlined procurement processes for their sites by collaborating proactively with their business stakeholders. Working in the center-led procurement team, they will help drive optimal cost while supporting safe operations, high quality, and leading streamlined procurement processes within their sites.
The ideal candidate puts the internal customer first, is highly collaborative, and has influential skills, aligned work experiences, and deep process knowledge of procurement (S2P business processes). They will drive procurement strategies and programs for their assigned sites while ensuring they meet productivity requirements and the needs of the businesses. This role participates in both regional and networkwide procurement programs and manages local and important supplier relationships. Responsibilities include implementing effective strategies, systems, and processes to support simplification, standardization, leverage, and compliance.
Essential Duties
The Sr. Site Procurement Leader role will serve as the strategic procurement oversight and subject matter expert for sourcing goods and services needs for GAF sites. They will report to the Procurement Excellence Team. This role will be a key face of procurement excellence for Indirect Procurement activities at their assigned Operating Sites. They will ensure streamlined procurement processes for their sites by collaborating proactively with their business stakeholders. Working in the center-led procurement team, they will help drive optimal cost while supporting safe operations, high quality, and leading streamlined procurement processes within their sites.
The ideal candidate puts the internal customer first, is highly collaborative, and has influential skills, aligned work experiences, and deep process knowledge of procurement (S2P business processes). They will drive procurement strategies and programs for their assigned sites while ensuring they meet productivity requirements and the needs of the businesses. This role participates in both regional and networkwide procurement programs and manages local and important supplier relationships. Responsibilities include implementing effective strategies, systems, and processes to support simplification, standardization, leverage, and compliance.
Essential Duties
- Enable the development and execution of category strategy in alignment with business strategy for specific site requirements, and ensure leveraged needs are fulfilled in alignment with the appropriate Category Manager
- Act as a strategic thought partner for Procurement and Business leadership.
- Collaborate with Category Managers and peers on Procurement and Supplier strategies.
- Develop and maintain effective local and regional supplier partnerships.
- Continuously seek to improve and manage total cost for site indirect materials.
- Proactively develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies for key materials.
- Ensure site supplier compliance and enable improved performance management by upholding contractual obligations and authoring Contracts with Firm SLA’s/KPI's at the site level.
- Drives the strategy to leverage key suppliers across sites and highlight consolidation opportunities to Strategic Category Managers.
- Lead consolidation of spend on assigned site(s) by collaborating with centralized teams across the network.
- Provide and leverage market and competitive intelligence with other Indirect functions.
- Lead site cross-functional collaborative efforts to streamline and better enable S2P processes.
- In coordination with the legal department and ISC category manager guidance, develop applicable contracts and agreements.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to select suppliers, negotiate and develop the best value for GAF. This includes coordinating and supporting RFPs.
- Ensure the procurement of required services is in alignment with EHS and ISN compliance regulations.
- Participate in cross functional team projects involving HQ to ensure value is attained through early involvement.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s Degree Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or Related Field required
- Experience understanding and supporting the socialization and execution of strategies with clear goals and priorities.
- 8 years of Industrial manufacturing and/or similar experience, with 5 years of procurement experience.
- Demonstrated business and financial acumen.
- Business acumen – creating, positioning, negotiating commercial arrangements to deliver competitive advantage.
- Project Management experience with strong data analytics experience to provide data driven procurement solutions.
- Strategic leadership skills in developing and nurturing strong working ties with site leadership and operations teams.
- Skilled in influencing, motivating, and developing diverse teams
- Strong negotiation skills-Experience managing and negotiating contracts to meet business needs and objectives.
- Collaborate closely with manufacturing plant sites to resolve supply issues and implement procurement strategies.
- Conduct spend analytics to achieve optimal TCO, reviews market intelligence, evaluates benchmarks and best practices to drive continuous improvement across supplier base.
- Supplier Relationship Management.
- Negotiate contracts and purchase order terms and conditions with the inclusion of Legal, Risk Management, Business leadership and Finance, as required.
- Good analytical and quantitative skills
Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Procurement experience
- Customer Service orientation
- Expertise working cross functionally in a matrixed environment
- Ability to simplify complexity
- Collaborative with the ability to influence others
- Process improvement mindset with the ability to critically analyze opportunities & connect the right resources to drive the improvement
- Bias to action/breaking down barriers/finding & driving solutions
- Comfortable with mining data and data analytics
- Solid technical skills with comfort learning new systems quickly
- Proficient in G Suite (Google Sheets, Google Docs, gMail)
Qualifications Preferred
- 8 years of Industrial manufacturing and/or similar experience, with 5 years of procurement experience preferred.
- Experience within procurement or supply chain with a strong ability to gain partnerships with cross-functional partners
- Influencing best practice standardization in procurement
- SAP S/4 HANA and Ariba experience is a plus
Physical Demands
- Stationary Position - Frequently
- Stationary Position/Seated - Frequently
- Position Self/Stooping - Occasionally
- Position Self/Kneeling - Occasionally
- Position Self/Crouching - Occasionally
- Reaching - Occasionally
- Handling - Occasionally
- Grasping - Occasionally
- Communicate/Talking - Frequently
- Communicate/Hearing - Frequently
- Repetitive Motions - Frequently
Working Conditions
- Temperature Change - Occasionally
Dimensions
Number of Indirect Reports: 0
Number of Direct Reports: 0
Travel Requirements: 10%
Base salary and/or rate of pay ranges listed are exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. Individual compensation offers will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to geographic location, relevant candidate experience and skill, education, and/or qualifications.
Base Salary Range: $80,000-$110,000
How We Protect What Matters Most:
1. We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. 2. Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood. 3. Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions. 4. Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence. 5. Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program. 6. We're committed to fostering a culture that reflects our values to connect, empower, evolve, and inspire. We offer many opportunities for employees to connect with one another, including through our Employee Resource Groups who focus on education and allyship for all of our employees.
GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR Services at 833-HR-XPERT.
We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity on the basis of each candidate's qualifications, experience, and merit, without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).Salary : $80,000 - $110,000