Relations senior director

Description

A global leadership role focused on developing and leading enterprise value creation of procured goods and services initiatives. Accelerate the savings pillar of the Procurement strategy by leading creative design/value thinking across brands and categories, leading cross?function program management, enterprise savings digital management platforms, and management reporting and analytics.

The role is especially critical during times of difficult global macroeconomic conditions in order to protect and fuel growth opportunities. The position interfaces and integrates across any combination of internal customer and external partner organizations including but not limited to Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Legal, IT, Procurement, and the external Supply Base in order to foster value realization, cost savings, commercial negotiations, and continuous process improvement. To achieve this, the incumbent will work closely with senior and mid?level leadership across functions, categories, and brands to identify opportunities to improve value in cost of goods sold (COGS) and improved benefits to the consumer.

The position also serves as the global Procurement lead for materials budgeting processes, including the annual enterprise cost standard setting process integrated with Finance Closely collaborates with the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), Source to Pay Global Process Owner (GPO), Procurement Leadership Team, and business leaders around the world to lead and develop capabilities integrated with Procurement strategies to deliver value creation and realization. Guides business leaders to execute initiatives that will improve total cost and/or increase value for the organization. Enable adoption of value management best practices including discovery, realization, and optimization processes.

• Structures and facilitates upstream ideation to accelerate value creation. Drive and facilitate creative ideation workshops. Build deep engagement and trust leadership with Brand/Function teams to curate business requirements to shape development of feasible programs.

• Collaborates with Procurement, Brands, Packaging, R&D, Engineering, and suppliers to executive downstream PMO Orchestration for Value Realization.

• Facilitates project management oversight via the Savings QuickBase platform.

• Mediates project roadblocks with respective teams and leaders, including timeline governance.

• Performs management reporting, including CPO scorecard delivery, brand, category, and other functional scorecard management, and Global Value Creation (GVC) Reviews.

• Leads procured cost of goods (COGS) budget and PPV management, including annual cost standard budget program management, monthly purchase price variance (PPV) operations and management, and bii?annual Brand budget updates.

• Leads a Global Community of Practice and Global Process Leadership Team forums.

• Governs global sourcing value creation portfolio. Collaborates with Finance and Procurement leadership to validate financial results.

• Develops new capabilities in process designs, supporting technologies, policies, and best practices. Refines and leverages standard and innovative approaches, tools, methodologies, and industry specific content to support strategy development and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Business Management or Industrial Engineering.

• CPA and/or MBA in Finance or Business Management a plus.

• 15+ years experience working for a Fortune 500 or business consulting firm with procurement value creation, cost analysis, source to pay process, and working capital improvement strategies.

• Must be aggressive and results oriented and have the ability to work effectively both independently and in a Project Team environment.

• Proven record of experience with developing and leading strategy.

• Strong interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills to work at all levels of the organization.

• Must be able to create executive communications in order to properly set expectations, presenting findings and make recommendations.

• Leading a project team through all phases and completion.

• Strong analytical skills.

• SAP and Ariba systems exposure preferred.

• Various innovation techniques (e.g. design thinking) and facilitation. Ability to bring innovative thinking into reality and developed business goals.

• Industry/market analysis and in-depth company research.

• Developing and driving disciplined process practices.

• Advanced knowledge of applicable methodologies, processes, and tools.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].