Director, Indirect Procurement

Job Description: Supply Chain business expert who manages a team of supply chain professionals and/or people managers for effective and efficient procurement operations, delivering on the Cost, Availability, Quality, and Sustainability objectives of the supply chain. Plans and implements activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, supply/demand, and inventory control. May also be responsible for some sourcing activities, in addition to coordinating global procurement efforts.Key Responsibilities:Operational ProcurementOwn the day-to-day buying engine for indirect spend and hold it to a published service standard. This includes the intake and triage of purchase requests, requisition-to-purchase-order execution, sourcing waivers and competitive-bid thresholds, catalog and preferred-supplier enablement, and the resolution of invoice, receipt, and three-way-match exceptions in partnership with Accounts Payable and Finance.* Set and manage cycle-time, quality, and compliance targets for the requisition-to-order process, and publish performance against them on a regular cadence to business partners and finance leadership.

• Govern the procurement policy for indirect spend: approval hierarchies, delegation of authority, competitive-bid and single-source justification rules, and the controls that keep spend on contract and off maverick channels.
• Own the procurement systems and data used to transact indirect spend, including catalogs, supplier master data, item and category taxonomy, and the reporting layer that makes spend visible by category, business unit, and supplier.
• Manage supplier onboarding and qualification end-to-end, including due diligence, risk screening, tax and banking validation, and supplier information maintenance, so a qualified supplier is ready before the business needs to transact.
• Partner with Finance on budget alignment, purchase-order accruals, and month-end and quarter-end close activities that depend on procurement data.

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