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Director of Procurement (Tempe, AZ)

Tempe, AZ 85281

Posted: 10/02/2024 Employment Type: Direct Hire/Perm Job Category: Other Job Number: 623988 Country: United States Is job remote?: No

Job Description

Job Summary:
The Director, Procurement is responsible for the establishment and management of a centralized procurement department, with the accountability for vendor engagement, procurement, and compliance.

Direct Reports:
  • Manager, Site-Base Sourcing
  • Operations Manager, Procurement
  • Senior Manager, Material and Strategic Sourcing
Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Design policies and procedures required to centralize strategic sourcing, procurement, and compliance functions including process, people, and systems
  • Design concept enhancements to computer operating system that backs up the strategic sourcing and procurement model
  • Interact with operations department with regards to the supply of sub-contractor vendors
  • Establish and manage a centralized procurement team to source and negotiate best price and delivery of products and services used by the company
  • Working safely is a condition of employment
  • Must be able to follow all safety policies and procedures
Qualifications:
  • Minimum of ten years finance and accounting in a $200 + million vendor/supplier environment
  • Minimum of ten years experience of procurement team management
  • Facilities management thinking
  • Delegation and communication ability
  • Efficiency and cost management focused
  • Multiple priority management skills
  • Internal customer focus
  • Influencing skills
  • Able to execute to schedule
  • Conflict management ability
  • Analytic and problem solving skills
  • Ensures that the business has the capability to adapt to changing requirements
  • Identifies and promotes new opportunities for the benefit of the business
  • Ensures business goals are aligned with the vision and values
  • Harnesses the value of diversity and other individual differences
  • Provides clarity and focus to employees in a continually shifting environment
  • Grows the business by adding higher value products and services that increase competitive advantage
  • Initiates and leverages opportunities to work with others internally and externally to benefit the business
Education: 
Bachelors Degree

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