What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Advanced Diagnostics Procurement position at Waters Corporation?
Overview
The Director of Procurement for the Advanced Diagnostics business will oversee a team of Direct Materials commodity managers, responsible for strategy implementation and supplier relationship development to achieve world-class productivity objectives. This is a key role in the Global Procurement organization, one that develops, implements, and executes sourcing strategies that deliver best in class performance at an optimized cost. The candidate will partner closely with sourcing and technical experts in each of Waters’ technologies to ensure alignment on strategy to drive favorable cost, material availability and terms. The individual will coordinate across the Global Procurement organization to develop and enforce the adherence of global harmonized processes. The Director, Advanced Diagnostics Procurement has responsibility for driving the organization’s goals within the global annual sourcing productivity targets.
Responsibilities
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
The Director of Procurement for the Advanced Diagnostics business will oversee a team of Direct Materials commodity managers, responsible for strategy implementation and supplier relationship development to achieve world-class productivity objectives. This is a key role in the Global Procurement organization, one that develops, implements, and executes sourcing strategies that deliver best in class performance at an optimized cost. The candidate will partner closely with sourcing and technical experts in each of Waters’ technologies to ensure alignment on strategy to drive favorable cost, material availability and terms. The individual will coordinate across the Global Procurement organization to develop and enforce the adherence of global harmonized processes. The Director, Advanced Diagnostics Procurement has responsibility for driving the organization’s goals within the global annual sourcing productivity targets.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to the VP, Global Procurement, this individual will manage team of commodity managers with highly specialized skills in the areas of sourcing, category strategy development, supplier negotiation, and supplier performance management.
- Through strategy alignment and expert management of internal stakeholders, set conditions to achieve 3-5% year-over-year Procurement productivity improvement. Develop and own the team’s productivity objectives as part of the global pipeline.
- Partner with Materials Planning team to escalate and resolve shortfalls in material requirements for production.
- Utilize expert contract negotiation skills to drive supply and development agreements to yield productive commercial outcomes
- Using expertise in data and analytics, enhance leverage in the supply base to obtain best cost, delivery, and technology
- Align to global harmonized policies, processes and systems that ensure high levels of performance, consistency and efficiency across all categories and technologies.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with development, product introduction, quality and manufacturing in creating and executing strategies for enabling new product introduction, reducing material costs, improving quality and ensuring security of supply.
- Travel: Domestic and International travel is required
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering or related field. MBA is preferred.
- A minimum of 12 years management experience within a Procurement and/or Strategic Sourcing organization with responsibility for international and domestic supply chains.
- Expert commercial skills; demonstrated expertise in negotiating complex, global supplier and development agreements
- Demonstrated track record of managing teams delivering high impact, complex initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis and financial models
- Excellent influencing, planning, problem solving, communication and organizational skills.
- Relevant market knowledge of Waters or similar products and businesses
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.