Director Procurement Job Summary: - This position leads strategic capabilities, technology, resources, and processes across the Indirect Procurement and Sourcing Center of Excellence (COE) for the organization. - This position will be the key leader and accountable for the standing up of the COE with a heavy lift and shift focus of centralization and moving work to our corporate office. - This is a strategic position which interfaces at all levels of the company, leading cross-departmental and enterprise process and technology improvement initiatives and champions change to ensure sourcing and procurement delivers best-in-class strategic operational excellence to the company. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the development, communication and execution of a sourcing and procurement business plan specific to activities within the sourcing and procurement lifecycle; establish, communicate, and implement long-term goals for the department to promote effectiveness and efficiency. - Stand up a centralized procurement team, leveraging our GEB office program in a way that adds value and efficiency to the organization; work closely with cross-functional partners in transitioning work that exists in various areas of the Company today and incorporating into the COE. - Lead a globally based team of Category Managers who execute world-wide strategic sourcing for the enterprise, including Facilities and Equipment, Marketing, IT, Supplies, and other shared services. - Ensure continuous value chain improvement and strategic supplier alliances through interfacing with suppliers, internal stakeholders and key specific marketplaces vital to our competitive position. - Drive value through leading the creation and execution of competitive advantage by leveraging category expertise, innovative ideas and creative marketplace management. - Develop, communicate, implement, and administer sourcing and procurement team performance and development plans. - Lead all change management with respect to purchasing infrastructure. - Lead the development and implementation of procurement-related training programs - Manage current procurement policies, procedures, and programs with a focus on their ability to enhance organizational value and efficiency; meet regularly with respective departments regarding procurement for their understanding and/or recommendations to enhance policies, procedures - Lead the development and communication of the roadmap for expansion of spend under purchase order. - Perform management responsibilities to include hiring and termination decisions, coaching and development, rewards and recognition, performance management and staff productivity. - Plan, organize, staff, direct and control the day-to-day operations of the department; develop and implement policies and programs as necessary; manage significant budgetary responsibility and authority. - Lead the direction and ownership of key and mission-critical Procurement and Payables operations, including oversight of procure-to-pay processes, help desk operations, and overall Procurement process and system enhancements. - Oversee the development of best-in-class methodologies, tools and knowledge repositories that drive the quality of and time to complete strategic sourcing initiatives across the procurement organization as well as ownership of procurement's technology roadmap; implement a dashboard and metrics to track savings. - Leads process and technology improvement designed to decrease risk while simultaneously accelerating cycle times - Drive Collaboration between sourcing and procurement with all departments and technology improvement aligned to corporate initiatives - Deliver subject matter expertise in the overall sourcing and procurement lifecycle activities for the organization - Other duties as assigned or requested

Bangalore

Director - Procurement - FMCG/Retail/IT 

Director - Procurement - FMCG/Retail/IT  ,Job Description for Director - Procurement - FMCG/Retail/IT  in People Impact in  Bangalore for (15-24) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Director - Procurement - FMCG/Retail/IT  in People Impact in  Bangalore for (15-24) years of experience. Apply Now!