AVP/VP - Procurement - Manufacturing Firm

Key Responsibilities of the Role:

- Responsible to lead and drive all aspects of the sourcing function, including developing and managing sourcing team, defining, and articulating strategy and vision, negotiating, measuring, and maintaining relationships with vendors, and optimizing total costs, quality, delivery, and safety

- Foster a continuous improvement, think big innovative culture through the organization and supply base

- Own the supplier relationship development and management for all Business

- Create sourcing strategies that reduce direct material cost and optimize quality, service, and working capital to achieve annual service, cost, quality capital and growth objectives

- Drive strategy that supports the needs of the operations and business

- Establish leadership, teams, metrics, and strategies for indirect spend including Facilities, MRO, Office Supplies, Sales/Brand, Merchandizing, Capital

- Build out technology and solutions to track metrics and data real time to drive faster decision making and execution

- Develop supplier's opportunities to deliver on aggressive new product goals

- Define and calculate vendor performance metrics. Meet with vendors periodically to review their performance based on quantitative metrics and develop strategy and plans to ensure suppliers continually improve their performance in quality, supply chain and cost

- Work closely with teams to understand product requirements and develop appropriate sourcing strategies and tactics

- Identify suitable suppliers for the school and school related services product platforms, acquire quote packages, and negotiate best total costs while ensuring achievement of quality, service, and innovation

- Develop detailed recommendations for capital, operating and staffing budgets. Provide fiscal oversight of allocated resources, assets, and expenses. Make necessary decisions to adjust for variations in projected budget income caused by fluctuating volumes and other external factors

- Build and develop a high energy, talented sourcing team. Encourage open employee communication and engagement via development, training, and performance management

- Modeling and driving the Ampersand Group culture through their team