Indirect Sourcing Director - MRO, Corporate Services, Energy

Job Responsibilities

• Trusted Business Partner
• Manages stakeholders across the business to drive organizational change, build credibility and trust regarding all indirect spend with a specific active business transformation initiative in MRO.
• Persuades, enrolls and aligns internal and external stakeholders to a specific vision or desired outcomes. Conveys opportunities in a way that inspires and energizes team members and business partners into action.
• Knows our customers, participates in direct customer interaction and has a thorough understanding of customer issues across their supply chain including specifications, raw material inputs, OC competitors or alternative products, energy and indirect spend.
• Manages supply base, inflation and savings forecasts in a data-driven manner accounting for potential short, medium and long-term risks and allocates resources to mitigate supply & supplier risk as necessary.
• Powers the agenda with the Corporate Risk Management Committee (CRMC) for risk management actions and other key stakeholders to deliver on the objectives of the business.
• Empowers teamwork across business segments and regions to maximize the performance of Owens Corning and the development of people.
• Is regarded by the employees of Owens Corning as a role model for their growth, development and conduct.
• Teaches financial acumen and concepts to assure financial-based decision-making occurs at every level of the business.
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Builds intimate insight and knowledge of critical supplier base, their business, what is necessary for the supplier to be successful, and the value that our current and future global supplier base delivers to the business.
• Ensures operations are consistent with the global supplier code of conduct and OC values.
• Provides leadership to the indirect Sourcing team to deliver productivity by working with suppliers and business leadership.
• Develops strong business relationships with all levels of key supplier base with focus on senior levels appropriately.
• Visits suppliers regularly to assess their capabilities, and understand their business strategies and priorities.
• Ensures appropriate level of Supplier Management (including overall commercial account management) for supply base and makes this a linchpin of continuous improvement for OC/supplier relationship and results.
• Develops strong understanding of key supplier industries through “outside in” perspective and regularly calibrates the contemporary state of this perspective.
• Benchmark our key suppliers and spend regularly.
• Leads supplier management for business, including:
• Key account management
• Performance management platform
• Supplier recognition
• A process for auditing performance
• Sustainability
• Leads the negotiating and codifying of key contractual relationships where and when appropriate.
• Developing and Executing Strategy
• Develops and executes timely strategy to centralize MRO spend, create more efficient channels for MRO delivery. Works with leaders over energy, IT, Corporate services to devise strategies and develop capabilities that supports the growth of Owens Corning.
• Keeps a forward-looking, long-term view of key trends and activities which will significantly impact the business.
• Ensures sourcing is a competitive advantage for OC through:
• Maintaining a sophisticated and purposeful forward-looking and externally-oriented global view of the key goods and services required by the business, and to the industries which provide them.
• Understanding the commercial and supply chain strategies of the businesses and aligning Sourcing strategies accordingly to create economic value and/or mitigate business risk.
• Ensuring supply security at the best economics for all commodities.
• Support of the company’s Sustainability initiatives with the supply base.
• Strategic Sourcing Expertise
• Accountable for all negotiations within the business’ global supply base, including third-party providers. Responsible for ensuring all sourcing activities adhere to the highest ethical standards, consistent with OC’s values and business code of conduct.
• Assures corporate processes and purchasing transactions adhere to all corporate and sourcing policies, including SOX and proper Levels of Authority approvals.
• Continuously improves sourcing processes with the objective of minimizing back-office sourcing transaction costs.
• Understands the daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly needs of each of the business supply chains and ensures the right materials/products/services are at the right place, at the right time, at the right cost.
• Ensures suppliers deliver to specifications called for and that the appropriate quality level is delivered.
• Works with the operations and technical group to understand and improve specifications on a six sigma, continuous improvement basis.
• Communicates consistently regarding results and the status of key initiatives, and on forward-looking risks and opportunities with the supply base or with sourced goods and services.
• Provides a sophisticated view of the markets, so risks and opportunities are well understood by business decision makers, and specific actions are taken as a result.
• Leading and Developing Talent – Global Talent Management
• Ensures global sourcing key capabilities by having core foundation skills, and that all employees develop and grow as a trusted business partner, thru strategic sourcing expertise, and supplier relationship management.
• Designs the business’ sourcing organization in a way that creates “complete” jobs with strong accountability and development opportunities.
• Creates an environment where talent is developed through effective performance management and talent evaluation.
• Effectively builds a diverse team with competent people using the appropriate mix of internal promotions and external recruitment to satisfy near-term performance, longer-term succession needs and to ensure the organization has the necessary outstanding talent.
• Invests in the growth and development of direct reports and other identified talent in their organization.
• Engaged in personal development.
• Encourages cross-functional moves and talent planning.
• Partners with other business leaders in driving performance management throughout the function by recognizing strong performers and coaching marginal performers.
• Engages with key business partners in upgrading talent with our external recruiting efforts to fill openings.

Minimum Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree in business, finance, engineering or related field of study; MBA preferred
• Fifteen plus years of global sourcing or relevant business or commercial experience (engineering, operations, finance, general management) with progressive responsibilities
• Leadership of a global functional organization; overseas assignment strongly preferred
• Project management that drives impact, strong results and leads to change