Strategic Sourcing Director

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Job Summary
Overseas all aspects of the organization’s purchasing function. Responsible for planning and directing the procurement of goods and services to reduce costs and improve quality.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

•    Create and manage teams to develop strategies and negotiations that ensure continuous supply and timely procurement of strategic goods and services at the most favorable total costs.
•    Ensure that all manufacturing site purchasing departments establish, maintain, and follow purchasing procedures consistent with corporate and group purchasing policies.
•    Represent the function’s needs with group/corporate I/M to ensure appropriate tools are available to enable procurement staff to perform as efficiently as possible. 
•    Represent group and work with counterparts across the company to coordinate purchasing of common categories; share, evaluate, and improve company procurement practices and assess and recommend systems improvements. 
•    Coordinate the development and installation of measurements to monitor performance of purchasing personnel based on analysis of price acceptance, quality, delivery, and inventory management.
•    Promote the value of the purchasing function through newsletters, meeting presentations, team participation, and the like to secure functional managers’ ongoing support to help achieve group business goals.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and may not necessarily comprise all of the "essential functions" for purposes of the ADA.

Expected Areas of Competence (i.e., knowledge, skills, and abilities)

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• Ability to conceptualize, design, implement, and monitor plans, policies, procedures, and systems.
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills
• Must have broad knowledge of purchasing, production operations, accounting, sales, marketing, I/M, and other functional areas
• Superior organizational, team building, planning, and coordination skills are required.
• Creates a strategic procurement vision and communicates that vision effectively throughout the organization and to external stakeholders.
• Optimizes a balanced approach in matching the business strategy to the availability of product.
• Align the functions into a seamless operation that supports outstanding customer service and accelerates products to market and maximizes the manufacturing network.
• Develops and implements strategies and planning techniques that will focus on growth and productivity while improving supplier performance, reducing inventory, and reducing costs.
• Translates strategy into operational goals and objectives, identifies necessary resources (people and capital) and leads the organization to focus on high priority opportunities.
• Selects and develops staff with the talent necessary to achieve competitive superiority. Guides the leadership development process, ensuring ongoing succession for key positions,
• Creates a high performance, externally focused operating culture which emphasizes world class customer service, teamwork, personnel accountability, and winning attitude.
• Models the desired behaviors personally and reinforces desired behaviors at all levels.
• Leads change to continuously adapt to a dynamic business environment. Reflects on experience, integrates, and applies learning to enhance organizational performance.
• Demonstrates self-confidence, decisiveness and risk-taking but is not impulsive; has the presence to manage through a crisis.
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders both within and outside the company (i.e., customers, the business/professional community, peers and employees at all levels in the organization).

Education/Experience Requirements 

• Typically requires, bachelor’s degree in  in Engineering, Business Administration or related field (MBA preferred) plus 15 or more years of purchasing experience required across a full range of commodity categories, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Management experience in a production environment, with a proven record of success in constant improvement, demonstrated understanding of plant economics and management, and an ability to work cross functionally.
• Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) preferred.

Travel Requirements
    Up to 20%

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ZimVie is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants for employment and employment decisions, including hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, evaluation, compensation, and separation, are considered without regard to race, color, religion, religious beliefs, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, gender/sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, lactation and breastfeeding), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military status, protected veteran status, disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state and local laws.

ZimVie generally does not sponsor applicant work visas for this position.

• Requisition ID: 3209