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    Director, Procurement - Dallas, United States - American Airlines

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    Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)
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    Requisition ID: 72881

    Intro

    Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you'll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board

    Why you'll love this job

    The Director, Procurement will lead the team responsible for American's relationships with all Hotel, Travel, Uniform and Training suppliers throughout the entire lifecycle, including sourcing, procurement, negotiations, contract management, relationship and performance management. Reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer, and working closely with the SVPs of Flight Operations and Inflight and their teams, the candidate will have the mandate to optimize cost, cash and supplier performance, in order to maximize value and mitigate risk for the company.

    What you'll do
    • Lead a team to define and drive the sourcing strategy and plan for categories related to Travel, Hotels, Uniforms, and Training Services
    • Define and manage cross-supplier performance management and cross-supplier governance structure. Manage supplier activity to identify and recommend methods to support cost savings, cost avoidance, improved efficiency, and an overall high level of performance.
    • Research, analyze, and interpret the supply marketplace to understand supplier/market characteristics and identify sourcing trends/opportunities.
    • Conduct supplier due diligence including scorecards, annual reviews, reporting metrics, establish dashboards, and financial analysis.
    • Drive supplier performance and manage supplier-related conflict resolution, escalation and resolution procedures.
    • Collaborate with Legal and Sourcing/Procurement across supplier lifecycle.
    • Lead overall performance of our contract operations and improve governance.
    • Build strong partnerships and engagement with existing and new strategic partners.
    • Lead strategy to enable us to deliver high quality, efficiency, and world class support for our internal stakeholders and business units.
    • Drive ongoing continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality and cost.
    All you'll need for success

    QUALIFICATIONS:
    Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity
    Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field
    7 years of leadership experience
    10 years of experience with supplier relationship management, negotiations, contract management, project management, and process improvement
    Strong negotiation skills, with experience crafting strategic partnerships; capable of restructuring major partnerships when warranted
    Expert level knowledge of the Hotel supply market with proven experience in managing complex requirements and contracts
    Action oriented, results-driven leader with a natural aptitude for engaging employees, colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers
    Proven experience leading broad organizational change and transformation
    Demonstrated ability to solve, and to lead others in solving, complex analytical problems
    Ability to think strategically, negotiate skillfully, digest complex details, and use sound judgment and initiative in making decisions
    Ability to influence through outstanding interpersonal skills and build collaborative relationships with multiple stakeholders with varying points of view
    Ability to build and facilitate relationships at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
    Ability to be flexible in rapidly changing conditions and priorities, and to redirect managers and teams toward new ideas and approaches in work methods
    Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with ability to handle complex topics comfortably and to interact effectively with all levels, internally and externally, both verbally and written
    Believes that diversity in the team is a strategic strength, and has demonstrated techniques that have promoted diversity, equity and inclusion
    Believes in, promotes and embodies in daily actions the American Airlines five leadership attributes:
    • Caring - We care about all team members
    • Collaboration - We succeed as a team
    • Development - We build future leaders
    • Results - We drive to be the best
    • Future - We continually challenge the status quo
    What you'll get

    Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
    • Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
    • Health Benefits: On day one, you'll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that's just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
    • Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself - that's why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
    • 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
    • Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
    Feel free to be yourself at American

    From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

    Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life's journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

    Cities:
    Requisition ID: 72881


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