Director / Assistant Director, Procurement

Key Responsibilities

• Strategize, formulate and execute/deploy yearly strategies to support the overall business goals and department goals.
• Develop initiatives that maximize benefits from emerging technologies, including AI.
• Responsible for the team categories management and drive significant cost reduction or value to the organization.
• Provide strategic supply base management including supplier selection, negotiations, and supplier relationship/performance management.
• Aligning strategies and processes with Sustainable Procurement policy
• Steer and develop teams towards achieving yearly business objectives and strategic goals (e.g., revenue, risk, reputation and cost etc.).
• Manage end-to-end procurement activities, both internal and external.
• Key interface for stakeholder engagement and stewardship to value add to business units.
• Serve as the primary contact for procurement-related questions, training, policy and procedure interpretation and alignment by all departments.
• Talent development of the teams members in area of functional and leadership qualities, in building a high-performance team.

Requirements

• Proven track record with successful 5–10 years of sustainble procurement experience in areas of leadership and transformation. 3–5 years of direct team management experience.
• Displayed leadership capabilities to formulate procurement strategies in the area of procurement transformation, business innovation, sustainability, and productivity.
• Entrepreneurial, with a high sense of urgency and accountability mindset.
• Analytical, agile thinking, with an eye for detail and high-level thinking.
• Possessed influential and business acumen skills, demonstrated in a highly matrixed and wide-arrayed organization.
• Degree in a technical discipline (e.g., Engineering, IT, Supply Chain) preferred; other professional certificates are a plus.