Position Summary:
We have an immediate opening for a full time Director, Procurement – Facilities, working extensively with our client. As a key member of our Client Services team, you will be responsible for leading and managing varying engagements within our client’s Facilities Spend, in areas such as: Facilities Maintenance, Design & Construction, and Supplies. This role will engage with all relevant client stakeholders and sponsors and reports directly to the Managing Director, Sourcing and Procurement. This position will be hybrid with the expectation to be in office 3-4 days a week.
Responsibilities:
- Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance
- Manage spend, supplier, and market data from client and LogicSource resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts
- Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards
- Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories
- Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend.
- Leverages LogicSource’s Center of Excellence (COE) category experts through the sourcing process to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities
- Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations
- Onboard new suppliers
- Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding e-procurement catalogs
- Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations
- Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling. Create procurement playbook as it relates to cyclical spending.
- Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier
- Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price / savings baseline analysis
- Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals at client. Create alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation.
- Support necessary negotiations. Apply both experience and the application of LogicSource’s sourcing methodology, ensuring all buying complies with client policies and procedures
- Source suppliers and build a best-in-class supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class suppliers. Fully utilize all strategic levers within sourcing process and find new paths to value
- Build supplier management and continuous improvement methodologies with key suppliers
- Establish and implement a supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors
- Work cross functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier enabled innovation
- Aggressive focus on achieving overall category cost savings.
