Director of Procurement

Position Overview

The Director of Procurement leads category management across the organization. This position plays a pivotal role in supplier strategy, cost optimization, and team development. This leader will collaborate with stakeholders (including product management, operations and supply chain leaders and finance) to develop category strategies, analyze spend data to identify opportunities, and lead the team through strategy formulation and execution. This leader will work with the category team to drive category strategies for spend areas like office supplies, travel, IT, outside labor, contingent labor, MRO, and packaging required to support business operations. This position will report into the VP of Procurement.

Key Job Responsibilities 

• Develop and manage category strategies for a spend of ~ $300M  as a business lever. 

• Execute sourcing and procurement strategies for all corporate commodities and suppliers including capital equipment, equipment leases, finance, legal, marketing, HR, and others, as needed. Maintain a controlled environment ensuring consistent and controlled buying methods.

• Implement and execute best-in-class decision making, e.g., Preferred Supplier programs, effective T&C structure and Global LTAs. Establishes proper metrics to ensure sourcing decisions follow TCO principles and delivers business value.

• Manage, evaluate, track and report relevant commodities and market trends from a historical and forecasting perspective.

• Establish annual goals and objectives, including stretch targets for function/team and manage individual performance to assure attainment.

• Drive cost savings, payment term improvements, and spend under management. 

• Oversee supplier segmentation and complexity reduction.

• Implement sourcing playbooks and supplier relationship management (SRM) frameworks.

• Build and lead high-performing procurement teams, including mentorship and training of direct reports.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, transparency and performance.

• Facilitate team cohesion across geographies.

• Perform other duties and projects as assigned or requested.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in supply chain management, engineering, industrial management, business, or related field. MBA in supply chain management or related desirable 

• 10+ years global procurement experience in areas of indirect spend including prior supervisory experience

• Experience in AV industry preferred

• Certified Purchasing Manager preferred

• Understanding of Strategic Sourcing principles and strategy

• Experience in negotiations and contracts

• Analytical ability and understanding of financial analysis

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge of Oracle preferred

• Travel: Up to 25%

Competencies

•Deliver World Class Service

• Hospitality

•Do The Right Thing

• Courage

Drive Results

• Optimizes & Aligns Work

•See The Big Picture

• Strategic Mindset

•Value People

• Organizational Savvy

• Values Diversity

• Develops Talent

Work Environment

Office

Work is performed primarily in an office environment.  Working times may include irregular hours and on-call status including days, evenings, weekends and holidays.   Team members must adhere to appearance guidelines as defined by Encore based in an office environment and when traveling, on an individual venue or a representation of venues in that city or area.

The above information on this description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

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Salary Pay Range: $147,415.00 - $191,639.00

The compensation offered for this role is determined based on the qualifications outlined in the job posting for the specified location. Final compensation is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant work experience, or particular skills and expertise. In addition, some positions may be eligible for other compensation such as potential overtime, bonuses or incentives.

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