Director, Strategic Sourcing & Commodity Management

About the role

The Director, Strategic Sourcing & Commodity Management provides strategic leadership for the Zurn Elkay Direct Material sourcing activities encompassing direct responsibility for over $200M of spend across the assigned Zurn Elkay Business groups. This position provides functional expertise and leadership with the Business Unit Operations Purchasing and Inventory management organization to implement best practices, alignment to strategic objectives and overall cost management.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive supply chain leadership and support to Zurn Elkay operations with primary focus on material cost management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.
• Works with the global supply chain teams, operations, plant and corporate leaders in the development of strategic plans and supporting objectives aligning with the business strategies, while proactively engaged in supporting events to assure attainment of agreed upon performance across Zurn.
• Establishes Zurn Elkay level procurement strategies, collaborates to insure incorporation of shared commodities across the group level into Zurn Elkay level strategy.
• Develops, attracts, and promotes talent and three deep succession planning.
• Develops, coordinates, and executes relevant and/or assigned strategic sourcing initiatives under agreed-on time-frames.
• Strategically supports business units within the larger function of Global Supply Chain.
• Supports China based LCR team via supplier development, performance management, established KPI’s, quality & inspection of exports, order management and maintenance of communication protocols.
• Manages, tracks, and reports of key commodities, currency and market trends from a historical and forecasting perspective.
• Establishes and monitors adherence to agreed-on policies and procedures.
• Establishs annual goals and objectives, including stretch targets, and manages performance to assure attainment.
• Develops, implements, and adheres to required reporting methods and applies statistical tools to evaluate and control attainment of department’s objectives.
• Drives spend and opportunity analyses, prioritizing strategic categories and sourcing opportunities within assigned functions and throughout the SC environment where applicable.
• Establishs and implements countermeasures, as required, to compensate for negative performance and market trends.
• Champions category management and the strategic sourcing processes; ensures consistent application of processes; drives strategic thinking within the supply chain organization.
• Builds and maintains solid relationships with strategic supply chain partners.
• Pairs with the operational purchasing teams to ensure period-over-period process improvements and associate development.
• Establishs metrics based on Total Value versus Total Cost analysis.
• Drives innovation and a focus on continuous improvement within the supply chain organization.
• Drives timely reporting to agreed-on KPIs and presents strategic sourcing plans, activities and successes to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Develops and incorporates Diversity and ESG initiatives into sourcing strategies across Zurn.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a business/industrial related field, preferably in Supply Chain/Operations management
• 10+ years of direct supply chain, operations, distribution or related experience
• 7+ years of team leadership / supervisory experience
• Financially literate, especially in P&L and cash-flow modeling, scenario building and comparatives analysis
• Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to use a structured approach to understand, analyze, and solve complex problems / issues
• Cross-functional / cross-departmental outlook
• Strong written communication and excellent oral presentation skills, and the ability to present convincingly at senior levels
• Able to travel worldwide up to 30% of the time
• Able to flex schedule to support worldwide time zones

Pay

$155,000 - $210,000

Schedule

N/A