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Director, Procurement - Direct Materials

El Segundo, CA - Onsite

Full Time

OVERVIEW

The Director Direct Materials drives and supports the development of best procurement practices for direct materials (ingredients and packaging materials), including sourcing strategy definition, deployment, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of ownership savings and Procurement value contribution. Utilizes various practices from global end-to-end strategic category management to ensure best leveraging of our global scale and resources.

Leads the team of Sourcing Managers and supports the target setting in alignment with procurement and cross functional leadership to enable the achievement of Procurement goals. Works in collaboration with regional cross functional teams, commercialization teams and innovation teams to understand business needs, regional market insights, risks and opportunities, and help drive companywide initiatives.

The Director Direct Materials drives Procurement value contribution while ensuring compliance with policies, strategies and takes ownership of procurement responsibilities related to critical business processes including procure to pay and procurement operations excellence.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Director Direct Materials is a critical leadership role in the Procurement team. This role manages total spend of ~300MM and growing.
The role requires unique skills which includes not only fundamental sourcing capabilities such as negotiations, and supplier relationship management; but also includes leadership capabilities to drive total value creation, supplier collaboration to drive end to end value, supplier led innovation and commercialization support in close collaboration with senior category and business teams.
The candidate must demonstrate strong project management and stakeholder management skills and an ability to effectively work in a complex and fast-paced (start-up like) set up.
Team building, mentorship and team management including capability development and goal-oriented performance management is critical to the success of this role.
The candidate must have a strong work ethic with a very hands-on approach to managing the category spend and the team members. The individual needs to be a team player and work collaboratively with cross functional teams. Must take on responsibilities to manage not only strategic initiatives but also ensure day to day process efficiency and demonstrate agility to deal with ambiguity and tactical procurement operations related activities.
This role is a great opportunity for individuals to develop and long-term career with tremendous professional growth and learning opportunities.

TASKS, DUTIES, & GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Manage category strategy development, deployment and planning for direct materials (20%)

Lead the development of the 3-year strategic plan for the sub categories.

Lead the development of strategies (including category strategies, supplier management strategies, and P2P strategy) to drive regional and global business expectations.

Manage alignment and deployment of strategies and financial plans.

Lead supplier negotiation strategy and process.

Support strategy execution (including project prioritization, securing resources, governance, and controls).

2. Lead the team of Sourcing Managers (20%)

Lead the team of Sourcing Managers in different strategic planning and sourcing activities.

Mentor team members and develop capabilities with hands on approach.

Practice Leadership Imperatives and Values to drive performance, talent management and self-management initiatives, in alignment with the VP of Procurement. This ensures effective talent and performance management by setting objectives, providing coaching and feedback, and defining individual development needs.

Facilitate build-up of best-in-class Procurement and industry mastery within the team. Develop and retain advantaged insights / know-how and practices.

Manage the cost center of the team in alignment with the VP of Procurement.

3. Manage stakeholder engagement, collaboration of teams, and supplier relationships (25%)

Identify and manage connectivity of category teams with functional stakeholders, suppliers and internal teams (e.g., innovation, commercialization, sales & marketing, Planning and supply chain, Proc. COE, etc.).

Manage stakeholder engagement and alignment throughout the end-to-end sourcing process.

Lead global supplier relationship management (SRM) program for critical direct material suppliers.

Manage commercial supplier relationships and contracts for direct materials categories.

Enable single point of contact model for all sourcing activities for commercial and innovation activities and enable seamless linkages.

4. Implement best practices for all direct material categories (15%)

Drive market intelligence and external benchmarking to develop and implement best practices relevant to operations.

Ensure standardization of processes and tools in coordination with other functions and IT and support digitization program.

Drive harmonized global approach towards end-to-end sourcing practices. Take ownership of procurement responsibilities on process excellence and manage teams to drive collaboration with focus on implementation and execution of critical processes like P2P, Planning and replenishment, contract set up and master data support and order to cash support.

5. Deliver assigned KPI's, targets and goals (20%)

Manage delivery of margin, innovation, cash flow and other deliverables for the assigned direct materials categories.

Be a point person responsible for delivery of goals for direct materials categories.

ctive guidance and contribution to margin management and cash flow programs.

Productivity and Payment Terms recording and tracking.

Lead and guide the objectives to identify further Total Cost of Ownership reduction opportunities for direct material categories.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education, Technical Skills, and / or Previous Experience :

Bachelor's degree

Skills / Leadership :

Strategic sourcing and negotiation

Project Management and Communication

Relationship Management

People and Change Management

Experience :

Minimum 7 years of experience in Procurement

Extensive knowledge of Spend Area at hand

Cross functional team management experience

Hands on Category transformation experience (preferred)

Thanks,

Adam Planica

PRI Technology

973.732.5454 x41

adam.planica@pritechnology.com

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