Director of Procurement

Job Description

This role is being posted to complete a prior recruiting process run by Waters Corporation. A candidate has already been selected for this role, and this job posting is provided solely for transactional purposes. Waters Corporation conducted all recruitment activities, including candidate sourcing, screening, and hiring decisions.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Reporting to the VP, Global Procurement, this individual will manage a team of commodity managers with highly specialized skills in sourcing, category strategy development, supplier negotiation, and supplier performance management.
• Through strategy alignment and expert management of internal stakeholders, set conditions to achieve 3-5% year-over-year Procurement productivity improvement.
• Develop and own the team’s productivity objectives as part of the global pipeline.
• Partner with Materials Planning team to escalate and resolve shortfalls in material requirements for production.
• Utilize expert contract negotiation skills to drive supply and development agreements to yield productive commercial outcomes.
• Using expertise in data and analytics, enhance leverage in the supply base to obtain best cost, delivery, and technology.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with development, product introduction, quality and manufacturing in creating and executing strategies for enabling new product introduction, reducing material costs, improving quality and ensuring security of supply.
• Travel: Domestic and International travel is required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering or related field. MBA is preferred.
• A minimum of 12 years management experience within a Procurement and/or Strategic Sourcing organization with responsibility for international and domestic supply chains.
• Expert commercial skills; demonstrated expertise in negotiating complex, global supplier and development agreements.
• Demonstrated track record of managing teams delivering high impact, complex initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis and financial models.
• Excellent influencing, planning, problem solving, communication and organizational skills.
• Relevant market knowledge of Waters or similar products and businesses.