Strategic Sourcing/Procurement Manager

Strategic Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain the appropriate stakeholder relationships to enable the Source-to-Contract (S2C) process within and across DJ Corporate Departments.
• Translate business strategy into sourcing strategies; partner with the Global Sourcing Category leaders to evolve strategies over-time
• Influence Global Sourcing center of excellence category strategies to reflect DJ requirements by offering feedback and requirements from the business units
• Take and transfer the expertise from the global centers of excellence and optimize the business unit’s spend to drive competitive advantage
• Partners with key DJ Corporate spend owners and FP&A to lead strategic planning of third-party engagements. Collaborates with FP&A team to ensure approved spend for initiatives
• Monitor supplier performance and support business development. Escalates non-compliance and delivers cost savings and overall vendor quality.
• Integration / Broker of Center of Excellence Services / Feedback Loop
• Ensure the Global Sourcing CEO strategies from the center work for DJ Corporate
• Be the single point of contact that behaves as a feedback loop between global and local; ensure two-way feedback is happening
• "Voice of the customer”; customers of the COEs
• Deliver valuable business support and broker the services of the COE and SSCs Process Alignment & Compliance
• Identify improvements relative to operating procedures and products
• Own process alignment and raise deviations from the global standards, practices, processes, etc.
• “Think Global”, “Fit Local”
• Ensure decision-making processes are aligned with local and global; update process mapping as required to drive clarity in interactions, exchanges, decision-rights & thresholds

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree or equivalent experience required, MBA preferred
• Minimum 8 years of global sourcing & procurement experience
• Certification in Procurement such as CPSM or CSCP, preferred
• Ability to influence senior executives to drive decisions
• Strong understanding of Source-to-Contract processes
• Strong understanding of Business Priorities
• Skilled in prioritization discussions, negotiations and establishing the appropriate balance between Global and Local
• “Account management” behaviors required
• Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories
• Expert negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations
• Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines, and meeting management skills
• Extensive knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms
• Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries