The VP, Strategic Purchasing will be responsible for leading and overseeing all Strategic Purchasing activities including definition of overall commodity strategy, supplier consolidation & development efforts, and supplier performance.
Summary of Duties:
• Owns, develops and drives a purchasing strategy that maximizes value to the company by leading the Purchasing team's efforts to deliver parts and services that efficiently support on-going production requirements and aftermarket programs.
• Collaborates with Executive and Senior leadership within the team to ensure companywide initiatives and business objectives are met.
• Provides leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching and developmental goals.
• Ensures all objectives for all departmental personnel are established and provides development and mentorship to team members in commodity management and supplier development.
• Contributes to, and provides support of, proposal development, strategic planning and budgeting.
• Provides leadership to cross-functional project teams including functional areas within the company as well as external customer and vendor team members.
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
• Personal Responsibility (Modeling the Way) - You maintain clear leadership philosophy and build consensus around organization values; you make sound and timely decisions by taking calculated risk while assuming responsibility, you evoke trust by being appropriately open, honest, ethical and consistent; you seek to eliminate inefficiencies and engage others; and you encourage organization, prioritization, follow-through and time management.
• Strategic Leadership (Challenging the Process) – You analyze trends/benchmarking data, develop alternatives, and identify opportunities for leverage; you set and keep focus on goals, you utilize resources effectively, you anticipate issues; you articulate a vision and encourage innovation and problem-solving to support it; and you display openness to new ideas, change and learning.
• Organizational Savvy – You display an understanding of organizational culture and practices, incorporate organizational awareness into decision-making, and utilize both formal and informal channels to achieve results; you navigate organizational politics effectively and build alliances across the organization.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in a related business or engineering discipline
Experience: Minimum 12 years' experience in supply chain within a complex multinational manufacturing organization. Minimum of 12 years' people management experience within a closely related business function. Significant prior experience driving SIOP or S&OP across multiple sites and business units
Knowledge & Skills:
• Proven Change Management experience
• Negotiation skills and capability to adapt
• Solid understanding of ERP system principles
• Proven management skills including displayed leadership of high-performing team.
• Strong coaching, mentoring and overall employee development skills.
• Ability to work well independently and cross-functionally as part of an established and growing team.
• Ability to build effective working relationships, persuade and influence, and problem-solve complex issues.
• Strong communication, time-management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management or project teams.
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.,) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Demonstrated experience with Accounting software, Database software, Project Management software, Spreadsheet and Word Processing software, and Internet knowledge.