Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Global Procurement Director directs all phases of national purchasing efforts for principal supply partners, spanning several goods for non-for-resale (GNFR) product categories, primarily focusing on the US and European markets. Cultivates national-level relationships with primary vendor partners and leverages regional best practices across North America and Europe regions. Establish and foster relationships with key internal stakeholders and drive change management processes across the GNFR categories. The Global Procurement Director supports the company goals by focusing on personal accountability, customer service and work efficiency.

Essential Job Functions

• Leads the strategic planning process for procurement the goods and services, including the definition of requirements, supply market assessment, supplier evaluation, sourcing events, initial selection, negotiation, contracting, and supplier management. Negotiates regional and global contracts.
• Leads and control spend reductions as a result of procurement activities that improve company spend performance for key investments, existing and new. Delivers additional procurement synergies for the company’s global or regional network, derived primarily from TCO analysis, standardization, specification rationalization efforts, exploiting unleveraged scale opportunities, consolidating vendor partners and promoting business unit‐level refinements.
• Develop cost models to assess value and qualitative/quantitative advantages.
• Provides strategic and tactical category guidance on key categories based on national trends, internal and external best practices, and company performance objectives
• Build strong partnerships as a trusted business advisor with functional and business unit leaders, Legal, and Finance, to create category strategies utilizing procurement mastery to optimize costs, leverage supplier capabilities, recommend innovation opportunities, and mitigate risk
• Develop superior supplier relationships to drive greater strategic value
• Establishes cross‐functional teams to diagnose, quantify and address regional and/or national‐level opportunities, emerging products and categories, and alternative revenue sources.
• Unites the company’s autonomous business units around common value‐enhancing principles, new programs and offerings, and relevant macro‐level opportunities
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining an effective, efficient, communication process to/for Division Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers.
• Leads the effort to scale successful regional programs to multi‐region or national level status
• Supports the establishment of national benchmarks, performance markers and objectives
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Marketing, Economics, International Business, Supply Chain or related business discipline; MBA preferred. Other combinations of job-related experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
• 3 - 7 years of strategic sourcing experience in the US and Europe or a similar combination of related experience negotiating complex contracts, including software, hardware, and professional services ( MSA, SaaS, Good, NDA, DPA)
• Working knowledge of technology, retail industry markets, and product and pricing trends. Knowledge of the electricity procurement market is preferred.
• Experience reviewing, authoring, and negotiating commercial contracts, including master supply agreements, statements of work, and professional services agreements, developing supplier SLA performance metrics and KPIs.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, and analytical skills
• Ability to pull spend data from disparate systems
• Ability to identify opportunities for business improvement and take initiative to drive necessary changes
• Ability to work well in a demanding, fast-paced environment and can manage competing priorities
• Ability to work with a variety of business partners, stakeholders, and external vendors - effective interpersonal skills, team and cross-functional focus. Proven success in partnering, influencing and collaborating across a wide spectrum of functions and levels
• Comprehensive knowledge of key financial management principles (internal) and macroeconomic (external) factors and cost drivers (ex: commodities indices)
• Advanced Experience with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word preferred.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor the message and delivery to a wide range of internal and external stakeholder groups.
• Multi-unit leadership experience in retail, operations or related retail industry with management responsibility strongly preferred.
• Travel required
• Valid driver’s license required.
  
  

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