Director of Procurement (Tempe, AZ) at The Planet Group

Job Summary:
The Director, Procurement is responsible for the establishment and management of a centralized procurement department, with the accountability for vendor engagement, procurement, and compliance.

Direct Reports:

• Manager, Site-Base Sourcing
• Operations Manager, Procurement
• Senior Manager, Material and Strategic Sourcing

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design policies and procedures required to centralize strategic sourcing, procurement, and compliance functions including process, people, and systems
• Design concept enhancements to computer operating system that backs up the strategic sourcing and procurement model
• Interact with operations department with regards to the supply of sub-contractor vendors
• Establish and manage a centralized procurement team to source and negotiate best price and delivery of products and services used by the company
• Working safely is a condition of employment
• Must be able to follow all safety policies and procedures

Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years finance and accounting in a $200 + million vendor/supplier environment
• Minimum of ten years experience of procurement team management
• Facilities management thinking
• Delegation and communication ability
• Efficiency and cost management focused
• Multiple priority management skills
• Internal customer focus
• Influencing skills
• Able to execute to schedule
• Conflict management ability
• Analytic and problem solving skills
• Ensures that the business has the capability to adapt to changing requirements
• Identifies and promotes new opportunities for the benefit of the business
• Ensures business goals are aligned with the vision and values
• Harnesses the value of diversity and other individual differences
• Provides clarity and focus to employees in a continually shifting environment
• Grows the business by adding higher value products and services that increase competitive advantage
• Initiates and leverages opportunities to work with others internally and externally to benefit the business

Education: 
Bachelors Degree