Our client is a world leading supplier of scientific instrumentation, raegents and consumables, and software services. 

Position Summary:

As the Sr. Director, Procurement, you will be responsible for delivering the savings to the P&L and proactively handling supply risk. Your work will be crucial to enabling and scaling the growth of the business, including supporting the development of SIOP, establishing effective and compliant materials management, optimizing site-based buying, and enabling sourcing, supplier management, inflation mitigation and other strategies at site, Division and Group level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Handle a portfolio of relationships with key leaders across the business, including commercial, R&D, operations and enabling functions to define business strategies including specific tactics for the management of external spend and supply managed assets.
• Lead a team of strategic procurement partners aligned to each division/business unit whose role is to ensure Procurement operates as an integrated part of the end to end supply chain and ensure shared accountability.
• Align with leadership on interaction models and role of Procurement across key forums (and vice versa), standing up the interaction model and ensuring it is highly effective to support business needs.
• Work with all divisions to run year-over-year total cost initiatives, analyzing cross-divisional spend and developing global strategic sourcing plans to reduce total cost of ownership for all business units.
• Provide Group level input to direct and indirect category strategies (Global, Group specific) owned by enterprise-wide teams outside of the business unit and support implementation of aligned strategies.
• Oversee supply disruption risk with a proactive approach that uses enterprise level frameworks and access to data to assess risk.
• Enable new product introduction and lifecycle management through effective supply market engagement and procurement orchestration.
• Embed ‘scouting approach’ across the Group to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process and surveil product pipeline.
• Deliver on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for all divisions in Group
• Partner with Supply Chain to create demand plans for supplier partners
• Ensure alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects
• Serve as the point of contact and ensure the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Management
• Consolidate, analyze and report on group procurement metrics for business reviews
• Work with senior supplier leadership and decision makers to solve business problems and assure alignment with company objectives
• Develop and assess procurement talent to improve resource productivity, skill development and proficiency
• Mentor and develop staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement and ensuring robust succession and talent management plans
• Implement talent initiatives to improve our colleague experience and survey results
• Drive the development and implementation of common processes, standardized practices, use of tools and technologies that can scale company-wide.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Supply Chain/Materials Management, Business Logistics or a related area of study; MBA preferred
• 15+ years of meaningful work experience, 12 in Procurement and at least 10 years of past people leadership experience
• High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills
• Strong influencing skills with ability to assess issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of colleagues and internal and external partners
• Significant eye for business with validated geographically dispersed team building experience
• Confirmed flexibility and responsiveness to changes in the external environment and internal business priorities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to dynamically present sophisticated information
• Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach
• Strong supply planning skills, understanding of demand plan to supply processes.
• Validated understanding of operations
• Progressively responsible career path in manufacturing operations and procurement with significant practical experience in international settings
• Strong analytical skills, with a focus on process excellence
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust