Provide procurement support to project teams at Black & Veatch, managing contract processes and negotiations. Collaborate on project evaluations in various sectors including Energy and Environment.
About the role
- Associate Director, Indirect Procurement for Wella Company driving strategic sourcing in North America and ensuring value delivery. Leading the procurement team and stakeholder engagement in complex spend areas.
Responsibilities
- Create and drive the strategic interventions on the Business Services and Advertising and Consumer Promotions categories primarily for North America
- Influence the design and strategic choices in this area building upon existing strategies and experience in a region with a very ambitious growth agenda
- Lead the indirect procurement team based in North America and enable the implementation of new strategies and capabilities for the Americas markets
- Engage with the Americas Leadership Team to review business needs and spend drivers
- Support strategic choices on suppliers, spend policies and define the external capabilities needed to deliver value and growth
- Work on simplification and consolidation of business partners to enable stronger supplier relationship management
- Drive strategy, savings initiatives and business plans with discipline to deliver business growth plans and fiscal year objectives
- Ensure transparency and governance of spend processes and policies globally
- Ensure appropriate support and alignment with regional and local teams, R&D, Operations, Marketing and Finance in the implementation and execution of the strategy and projects
Requirements
- Experience in Procurement, ideally in advertising and consumer promotion or business services spend areas, at least 8-12 years
- Degree qualified preferably in Business, Manufacturing, Engineering or other relevant discipline.
- MBA is a plus
- Work experience in an international environment and matrix organizations
- Capable and proven track record of stakeholder management including business Leaders (internal and external)
- Experience developing and managing organizations
- Excellent analytical skills, negotiation skills, strategic thinking and collaboration skills.
- High level of reliability, personal integrity, autonomy and ownership.
- Strategic, structured, pro-active and solution-oriented way of working.
- You are business driven, pragmatic and results-oriented.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong ability to communicate complex topics in concise terms to various stakeholders including C-Suite.
- High degree of fluency in written and spoken English is required, German is an asset
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO)
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