Position Summary:
We have an immediate opening for a full-time Account Director of Indirect Procurement. As a key member of our Client Services team you will be responsible for leading and managing an indirect sourcing and procurement business function. This role will lead indirect procurement projects while engaging with all relevant client stakeholders and executive sponsors. Acting as the Indirect Spend leader, the Account Director will have responsibility for spend across Indirect Categories including Facilities, Marketing, Distribution & Logistics, Corporate Services, and IT. In this capacity, the Account Director will assure achievement of aggressive category management plans, operational redesign and process improvements and savings goals. This role will establish the overall Indirect Spend governance structure in collaboration with Senior Client Executive Sponsors.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Indirect Spend category management responsible for LogicSource’s Procurement Transformation program to assure immediate and ongoing Client value through cost reduction, market insights, strategic supplier relationship management and operational efficiencies
- Build relationships with business unit executive sponsors and stakeholders to assure alignment of Indirect Category Management plans and achievement of overall savings targets
- Transform an indirect procurement organization by establishing category management strategies for all indirect spend categories, including (but not limited to) Facilities, Marketing, Distribution & Logistics, Corporate Services, and IT.
- Identify, lead and drive business process in-source/outsource and operational redesign activities.
- Drive the Change Management program to influence behaviors across the business to align with a mature procurement model and assure timely execution of sourcing events.
- Establish and oversee Indirect Spend governance structure to assure alignment across client and achievement of savings goals. Assure client executive sponsorship of governance structure. Drive productive governance process each month across business categories that bring to center needed business decision making, scenario analyses and value propositions, and whilst ensuring all Client business parties represent and remain engaged.
- Build a comprehensive procurement tool box: negotiation plans to support strategic sourcing, should-cost models, volume aggregation or bundling, competitive bidding, demand management, identification of new supply models, innovation, cross-portfolio leveraging, co-sourcing, tendering, low cost country models
- Create immediate cost savings and next-level sourcing advantage for the client where spend and sourcing productivity have a future pipeline of value
- Identify and implement a sourcing prioritization model driven by both benchmarking and category price to value analysis. Lead decision-making and broad team resource planning to staff sourcing plans
- Lead development and execution of total cost analysis where both price risk management strategies and value chain analysis can deliver predictable costs
- Exercise leadership into the sourcing team optimizing human and informational resources to best manage category outcomes. Effectively analyze path to value so that savings dilution or leakage does not occur
- Identify specifications improvement, cost containment, and value engineering opportunities
- Implement better understanding of cost structures and application of clean-cost sheet planning to indirect category pricing. Mine for appropriate supplier and sub-category opportunities to unlock incremental savings
- Continuously improve sourcing processes, drive cost reduction, and shape the future supply chain
- Identify trends and develop solutions for problems causing under-delivery
- Develop and deliver ongoing Client status updates including Quarterly Business Reviews.
- Learn and adapt to client's culture while maintaining cultural standards of LogicSource
- Monitor project progress and provide effective status reporting, develop with onsite teams’ effective protocols on savings calculation, job and task sharing, and information exchange.
- Understand industry trends and growth sectors for LogicSource’s expansion considerations
