Director, Indirect Procurement - Westport, United States - LogicSource

LogicSource

Verified Company

Westport, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Overview:

Reasons why you'll love it here:

An amazing culture with a team that supports one another, the opportunity to make a direct impact, and have fun along the way
We are experiencing rapid growth

- come grow along with us.

We work hard and play hard offering unlimited and flexible PTO.
Phenomenal health, dental and vision benefits for you and your family (and we pay almost 90% of the premiums).
Additional options for employer contributions to HSA, 401k match, Dependent Care FSA, shortterm/longterm disability, life insurance and more.
Business Casual, Flexible and hybrid office locations in both Westport, CT and Charleston, SC.

Responsibilities:

Position Summary:

In this role, you will be a key member of our Strategic Sourcing Center, executing strategies for large-scale development and procurement projects for our clients.

This role is based in Westport, CT and reports to the Managing Director, Sourcing Practice

Responsibilities:

Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance
Manage spend, supplier, and market data from client and LogicSource resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts
Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and nonincumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards
Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories
Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend
Leverages LogicSource's Center of Excellence (COE) category experts through the sourcing process to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities
Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations
Onboard new suppliers
Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding eprocurement catalogs
Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations
Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or resupply modeling. Create procurement playbook as it relates to cyclical spending
Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, subcategory, and supplier
Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price / savings baseline analysis
Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals at client. Create alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation
Source suppliers and build a bestinclass supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with bestinclass suppliers. Fully utilize all strategic levers within sourcing process and find new paths to value
Build supplier management and continuous improvement methodologies with key suppliers
Establish and implement a supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors
Work cross functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier enabled innovation
Aggressive focus on achieving overall category cost savings

Qualifications:

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree required.
Minimum of ten (10) years' experience in indirect procurement, vendor management, and strategic sourcing with deep expertise in Information Technology, including but not limited to: IT Services, Software, Telecom, Mobile, and Hardware.
Experience managing category spend over $45MM annually
Building category strategies
Contract negotiation and contract management
Comfort and rigorous process in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling
Ability to drive change management and gain consensus from client stakeholders across several business units' company wide
Experience in driving operational redesign process improvement initiatives
Must possess strong overall knowledge and understanding of business/contract issues and broad understanding of competitive products/services, technology, and market and industry issues
Knowledge of supplier ecosystems and markets that serve the above categories.
Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
Individual needs to be very detail oriented and able to deliver projects on time.
Highlevels of supply chain and operational acumen, with demonstrated endtoen