1624 - Managing Director, Sourcing & Procurement

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with business unit executive sponsors and stakeholders to ensure alignment of Indirect Category Management plans and achievement of overall savings targets.
• Lead Indirect Spend category management responsible for LogicSource’s Procurement Transformation program to ensure immediate and ongoing Client value through cost reduction, market insights, strategic supplier relationship management and operational efficiencies.
• Establish executive-level trust, influence decision making and act as a strategic advisor to the client on business, operational and strategic sourcing transformational initiatives.
• Oversee delivery and quality across all workstreams of our engagement, ensuring commitments are met with excellence and client expectations are exceeded.
• Identify, lead and drive business processes in-source/outsource and operational redesign activities. You will closely collaborate with client stakeholders to ensure realization of cost-reduction opportunities.
• Drive Change Management programs to influence behaviors across the business to align with a mature procurement model and ensure timely execution of spend optimization initiatives.
• Create immediate cost savings and next-level advantage for the client where spend and sourcing productivity have both a near and long-term impact.
• Identify and implement a sourcing prioritization model driven by both benchmarking and category best practices assessment features. Lead decision-making and broad team resource planning to staff sourcing plans.
• Coordinate and collaborate with LogicSource’s Center of Excellence (COE) resources to drive savings opportunities and effectively manage vendor partners to maintain the highest standards for quality and delivery.
• Facilitate communication between client business units, internal stakeholders, and suppliers for effective operation and delivery.
• Build business cases to influence stakeholders to adopt different and more valuable models for procurement engagement.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and support to onsite and cross-functional teams to ensure they understand their roles and interdependence in the delivery of sustainable services.
• Create and manage a high-performing team, which not only delivers operational excellence, but keeps team members engaged and thriving.
• Continuously improve sourcing processes, drive cost reduction, and shape the future supply chain.
• Identify trends and develop solutions for the ever-changing landscape in geopolitical, competitive, environmental landscapes.
• Ensure operational discipline is maintained to create a repeatable and scalable program.
• Build and effectively maintain relationships within all organizational levels, including the C-Suite, delivering client service objectives. Deliver both internal and external customer advocacy through exceptional delivery and relationship management.
• Drive same account growth opportunities to at minimum exceed baseline, booked revenues.
• Ensure absolute operational excellence to the client, with all resources, processes and technology with which the client is engaged.
• Develop perspective and bring forth recommendations on new offerings, capabilities and solutions that LogicSource should create or co-create with key clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; master's degree preferred.
• Experience managing commercial, service provider relationships with major corporations in procurement, supply chain, IT, facilities management or tangential solution areas.
• Minimum of 15 years or progressive leadership experience in strategic sourcing & procurement across a broad set of indirect categories.
• Prior experience in the healthcare and higher education industry is highly preferred.
• Strong financial acumen with multi-year experience building, managing and delivering against P&L’s.
• Track record of growth in managing relationships over time.
• Entrepreneurial aptitude with a commitment to operational excellence.
• Demonstrated executive presence and ability to develop relationships, communicate effectively and influence senior level management.
• Ability to manage a group of your peers through influence to affect positive outcomes.
• Proven Innovator with significant demonstrated experience in driving operational and organizational change management.
• Ability to gain consensus across multiple business units' company wide.
• Strong problem solving and leadership skills.