Job DescriptionJob Summary:The Director of Indirect Goods and Services is a hands-on leader responsible for building enterprise-wide category strategies across $900M+ in indirect spend and partnering directly with segments, business units, and sites in the U.S., Canada, and Europe to execute those strategies. The role balances strategy with execution: driving sourcing events, negotiating master agreements, rationalizing suppliers, and implementing contracts to deliver measurable savings, risk reduction, and compliance in a highly decentralized environment. (This role reports to the Senior Director of Supply Chain.)
Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
- Facilitate collaboration and gain support from internal stakeholders on assigned long-term category strategies
- Have an advanced understanding of the current supply base, markets, capabilities, other customers and geographical reach, trends, and dynamics of the marketplace. Develop category strategy based on market insight for major indirect spend categories
- Ensures spend data is consolidated and segmented by supplier, category, product/service. Can identify gaps and where potential opportunities for savings exist.
- Leads meetings/ workshops with key internal customers and/or business functional stakeholders to explore findings and explore ideas for opportunities.
- Stand up category councils and cross-functional working teams (operations, engineering, IT, finance, legal) to drive alignment and adoption without direct authority.
- Develop profiles of assigned categories covering spend, volume, specification, current contractual obligations, supplier, cost drivers, region, and product life cycle.
- Work directly with segments and sites to run sourcing events (RFx), negotiate commercial and legal terms, transition suppliers, and implement catalogs/ordering channels.
- Advanced understanding of the sourcing maturity of the category by analyzing supplier performance/scorecard, compliance, category performance, and supplier management strategy.
- Identify and map out the cost elements and establish the cost breakdown and drivers using the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis. Identify value chain inefficiencies and prioritize cost savings opportunities for assigned categories.
- Translate enterprise strategies into site-level implementation plans with milestones, owners, and success metrics.
- Drive supplier rationalization and preferred supplier programs; ensure coverage with global master agreements and local call-off mechanisms as needed.
- Ensures that stakeholder concerns, objectives and goals are considered and addressed by the team.
- Lead executive-level supplier negotiations and QBRs; establish performance scorecards and continuous improvement plans.
- Champion Source-to-Pay utilization for sourcing pipelines, RFx, contracting, catalogs, and analytics; improve data quality and spend visibility.
Preferred Qualifications:- BA/BS in IT, Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, or equivalent work experience
- Successful 8 - 10-year track record in supply chain or category management
- Advanced PC skills, including MS Teams administration, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Experience with Source to Pay (e.g. Ivalua, Coupa) or other end-to-end source to pay process.
- Strong technical aptitude: ability to learn and adapt to new technology
- Self-starter, adapts & works effectively within a rapidly changing business environment
- Demonstrated success executing complex sourcing projects across multiple sites/business units in a decentralized enterprise; proven ability to influence without authority.
- Strong commercial acumen (TCO, price/should-cost, indexation, SLAs/KPIs) and contract negotiation experience for master agreements.
- Ability to travel 25-40% for the first year and up to 25% in subsequent years
- Applicants must be a U.S. person or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.
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