Senior Director Sourcing and Procurement

The Sr. Director, Sourcing and Procurement serves as a key member of the Supply Chain leadership team and is focused on establishing and implementing standards across Supply Chain related to sourcing and procurement. The Sr Director must be a results oriented, creative and strategic leader to leverage knowledge of industry and market trends to develop and champion long-term procurement governance across the organization.

Leads in the development of standards for contracts to ensure they align with the legal strategies and facilitates a Request for Proposal process for complex or high-value items. The Sr Director builds and maintains relationships with key business functions and must be skilled at influencing and change management at all levels of the organization while operating in alignment with the organization's values.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Establish and manage appropriate, meaningful strategic supplier relationships

- Act as key partner to business stakeholders and collaborate to meet functional and company objectives

- Build and develop a team of high-performing procurement incumbents (including exempt, management and professional level roles)

- Utilize analytics, category strategies, pricing and deal strategy to cultivate an environment focused sourcing and procurement within the organization

- Design organizational change management processes and policies around sourcing and supplier processes

- Define and implement standard contract development and negotiation processes and a robust supplier review program

- Standardize procurement processes across the organization in support of reducing costs and

improving supplier performance

- Ensure ongoing awareness of market trends for major categories and proactively adapt procurement strategy

- Leverage various analytical techniques and tools to conduct regular and ad-hoc analysis that explain current and past activity, expected trends, and potential effect of change. Present and

support findings and recommendations to various management levels within the organization

Lead the creation and implementation of sourcing and procurement strategies, policies and implementation plans

- Facilitate the transfer of best practices, continuous improvement processes/practices and the generation of new savings ideas to impact spend.

- Act as a strategic business partner, developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with internal business leaders, stakeholders and subject matter experts.

- Organize, analyze, report on and present relevant data to stakeholders

- Champion continuous and measurable improvement to the company's Category

Management/vendor return processes

- Serve as the senior subject matter expert, developing and presenting recommendations from accurate procurement assessments and/or analysis

- Work collaboratively and cross functionally across the business to meet and exceed objectives

Job Requirements

Preferred Education:

Bachelor’s required, Master’s degree preferred

Preferred Work Experience (years):

20 or more years of procurement experience with a minimum of

10 years’ people management experience. Demonstrated success and increasing scope/responsibilities within the area of sourcing and procurement

Key Skills and Competencies:

- Significant experience with strategic sourcing processes and category management

- Demonstrated history of successfully leading transformational initiatives

- Proven negotiation skills

- Ability to build strong internal and external relationships

- Experience leading people and creating a high- performance, high-accountability culture (minimum 5 years preferred)

- Experience with strategy development, process design, project delivery and sourcing

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Strong analytical skills

- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage competing priorities

- Strong project and time management skills

- Proficient in MS Office