Director Procurement
Director Procurement
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13-04-2025
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1 Vacancy
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13-04-2025
Job Description
Purpose
The Director Procurement is responsible for the procurement of direct and indirect products and services for the entire organization. This role is the working leader who guides all aspect of supply chain management with an emphasis on driving continued improvement in supply chain integration and performance.
Essential Functions
Duties include but are not limited to:
The Director Procurement is responsible for the procurement of direct and indirect products and services for the entire organization. This role is the working leader who guides all aspect of supply chain management with an emphasis on driving continued improvement in supply chain integration and performance.
Essential Functions
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Maximizing operational performance by instilling a forwardlooking approach in procurement proactively identifying supply chain delivery gaps with the use of ERP and leveraging the appropriate teams to drive throughput of product deliveries into the factories to support flawless to our customers.
- Integrating supply chain activities across supplier development strategic commodity transition management planning and procurement teams to ensure that systemic supplier deficiencies are well communicated and addressed prior to any business impact.
- Leading account management activities to ensure strong working relationships with all suppliers/ partners. This includes ensuring performance of the supporting teams seamless processing of purchase orders YOY cost savings and burndown of overdue elements (aged receipts payments etc..
- Confidently presenting (on a daily basis with impromptu briefings) supply chain topics internally and externally with customers while interacting with senior leadership level.
- The candidate must be able to work independently with minimal direction while leveraging his/her team of managers and individual contributors.
- Instill a culture of continuous improvement aimed at flawless of supply chain strategic and tactical support to our production sites.
- Develop an organizationwide procurement strategy aligned to business goals
- Communicate strategy elements values and risks at an executive level
- Implement a strategic sourcing road map for sustainable savings
- Develop categoryspecific strategies for ongoing category management and optimization
- Assess existing organizational effectiveness and competencies
- Design and lead the right organization structure aligned with the business
- Provides ongoing employee development as well as encouragement to exceed their personal goals
- Implement a robust governance and performance management framework including metrics and scorecards that will improve supplier performance across quality cost and delivery.
- Review technology requirements and implement bestfit solutions
- Drive value and mitigate risk within the supply chain to include:
- Improved Cash Flow
- Optimized payment terms
- Identification and realization of cost saving and cost reduction opportunities
- Improved contract compliance
- Improved acquisition efficiency
- Maintaining optimum inventory levels to ensure ontime deliveries to meet customer requirements while minimizing carrying costs & transportation charges.
- Investigating & solving problems resulting from material shortages poor quality etc however caused.
- Working closely with other functional groups notably Engineering during product development to identify new materials suppliers & processes to achieve the best possible quality reliability prices continuity & delivery.
- Performing other duties as directed by the VP Operations.
- Ability to supervise in an integrated team environment supporting various working groups. It is imperative that the applicant be able to work within and lead when called integrated working groups and be a team contributor.
- Applicant must be selfmotivator and able to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Basic Qualifications (The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skills and/or ability required and preferred for this position.
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelors degree in supply chain management economics finance business or a related field
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience within strategic sourcing supply chain or operations management preferably within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in the electronics industry is highly desirable.
- 5 8 years of experience working procurement for defense contractors or commercial businesses that have multiyear contacts with their customers.
- OR in absence of degree 15 years relevant experience.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
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