Vice President, Sourcing & Procurement

What You Will Do

• Develop long-term sourcing strategies and actionable steps to improve operational performance, while ensuring best purchasing value and competitive advantage through the purchasing of capital, direct and indirect materials, and services worldwide.
• Oversee a regimented process to effectively plan and deliver cost reduction plans and initiatives.
• Establish a culture of continuously thinking of new and creative ideas to reduce costs, working with engineering and manufacturing teams to realize the savings.
• Deploy new data and tools to make more informed sourcing decisions across critical categories of our business.
• Develop business relationships with suppliers that enable long term optimized support of company requirements to reduce cost and improve service.
• Maintain business relationships with strategic suppliers for BUs and serves as an escalation point to resolve supplier performance issues.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve methodologies and their application to assigned business processes while maintaining the long-term sustainability of these processes.
• Ensure the optimum Purchasing performance to achieve quality, cost, timing, environmental, safety, sustainability, and technology requirements in line with business objectives.
• Drive lead-time reduction and dual sourcing across the global supply chain, quality improvements, and working capital improvements.
• Sponsor the use of digital, automation, and advanced analytics to unlock new sources of value and insight within the team.
• Responsible for the E2E Purchasing processes (systems, policies, and processes, P2P).
• Negotiate and support of vendor contracts, service level agreements, and performance measurement programs related to materials and manufacturing partners.

Who You Are and What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (EE or E&C) with 20+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, advanced sourcing, sourcing electronic components, manufacturing ops, and/or product management for new products.
• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and working experience of Semiconductor components and experience in batteries and power electronics procurement.
• Proven success driving change in cross-functional environments (engineering, marketing, product management, manufacturing).
• Demonstrated balance of strategic and operational capacities, including global sourcing, supplier management, commodity risk management, supply assurance, etc.
• Proven track record of forming win-win partnerships with suppliers, should bring both a strategic and 'hands on' mindset and a track record in change management.
• Extensive global sourcing experience & strong negotiation skills, Contracting, pricing, supply chain/sourcing strategies.
• A globally minded leader has experience doing business across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
• Highly analytical, process-driven, and results-oriented, with a bias for action.
• Highly collaborative and able to work effectively outside the sphere of direct influence, have strong leadership skills and be able to communicate clearly with a wide range of constituents in a highly matrix organization.
• Demonstrated success in supplier management, cost reduction & inventory management.
• Must possess demonstrated work experience to work with outsourced manufacturing suppliers and procurement teams to drive problem resolution, ECO implementation, quality processes, and effective source cost analysis.
• Strong personal computer application usage skills are required (Desktop office and ERP systems applications).
• Must be able to work in an environment of short notice changes, and tolerate interruptions.
• Direct experience with Oracle ERP Business Systems and related procurement transactions desired.