Sr. Director Business Partner

Sr. Director Business Partner

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Minimum ten years of work experience
• If applicable, minimum five years managing professionals
• Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management in either or both Manufacturing and Services environments
• Broad business knowledge and acumen
• Strategic sourcing or category management with a history of successful implementation
• Supplier value management, supplier development and continuous improvement
• Champion change and innovation
• Balances strategic thinking with tactical action to drive results
• Strategic agility, business acumen and managing complexity
• Working and influencing within a highly matrixed organization
• Develops partnerships; builds and maintains strong working relationships
• A proven track record of developing programs and collaborating with others to reach mutual outcomes
• Hiring and staffing for high performing teams
• Coaching and developing others
• Adept at leading and working in diverse environments

Responsibilities

• Builds credibility and collaborative business relationships at the leadership level with the assigned business, function or region ensuring governance across direct and indirect spends
• Partners with a wide range of procurement leaders and associates to bring together a comprehensive procurement perspective for the assigned business function or region
• Ensures business needs and key strategies are integrated into leveraged category spend and that there is a clear value proposition for the assigned business to implement sourcing strategies
• Works with other procurement associates to encourage consensus among various stakeholder groups and achieve objectives
• Actively identifies gaps, proposes and implements changes necessary to close gaps, which may be related to supplier, processes or other commercial issues
• Effectively uses all change tools to facilitate adoption of change
• Contributes to overall functional strategy and procure to pay process improvements
• Educates internal / external customers on various technical and procurement process issues
• Engages the appropriate business leaders and is accountable for the execution of the sourcing strategy associated with the assigned portfolio of direct and indirect spend categories
• Ensures alignment of procurement goals with assigned business
• Ensures that savings and value streams from category strategies get built into Class I and Class II commitments at the business or function level
• Plans and manages strategic stakeholder engagements to ensure alignment of activities across the internal and external supply chains
• Selects, develops and manages a team of Procurement Managers / Specialists to insure the efficient and effective procurement support to the assigned business
• Ensures alignment of procurement and customer goals, and consequently plays a key role in influencing significant business decisions and resource planning
• Understands assigned business/ function / region strategy and requirements
• Ensures the assigned business / function / region strategy and requirements are appropriately reflected in the category strategies and implementation plans
• Drives category strategies implementation and STP process improvements into the business / function / region
• Delivery of results against procurement functional goals committed to the assigned business
• Overall management of savings and value pipeline through implementation of category strategies for the assigned business to provide a return on spend in excess of five percent returns with commitments for Class I and Class II projects
• Improvement on financial position through cost savings, non-price value opportunities and price movement / inflation management and appropriate standard costs
• Alignment of risk mitigation plans associated with supply base and STP process compliance for assigned business
• Ensures that savings and value streams from category strategies get built into Class I and Class II commitments at the business or function level
• Managed and provides leadership support for overall cost to win, synergy savings, go-get savings etc.
• Maintains relationships with assigned business, function or regional stakeholders. Influences the respective budgets through communication and consensus on strategies, projects and processes
• Influences the assigned business budgets through programs and projects driven by internal needs and the procurement agenda
• Oversees and communicates PPV forecasting forward price indicator impact (if any) to support assigned business budget needs

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.