Director, Strategic Procurement - Corporate Headquarters, NJ (Secaucus)

Position Summary :

The Director of Strategic Procurement at The Children's Place is responsible for leading strategic sourcing initiatives, collaboratively developing and implementing strategies to optimize the companys non-merchandise spend and supporting the company's ongoing profit improvement efforts.

The Director leads a small Strategic Procurement team that is responsible for around $400M spend, ranging from supply chain, marketing, IT, stores, and professional services.

Provides leadership to influence and strategically source of all non-merchandise spend.

Leads strategic sourcing efforts, develops talent, leverages technology, and drives new value.

Develops pipeline of projects, builds relationships with key executives / spend owners, leads sourcing team, and runs complex strategic sourcing projects.

Is responsible for conducting spend analysis, analyzing supply markets, identifying sourcing value levers, executing competitive RFIs / RFPs and leading supplier negotiations.

Primary Responsibilities / Accountabilities :

• Designs and develops a value initiative pipeline to optimize around $400M of non-merchandise spend to yield aggressive savings.
• Prioritizes sourcing efforts, develops baseline spend, and manages sequential sourcing waves.
• Works with business teams to sponsor initiatives, and agree on business goals and key requirements.
• Builds strong relationships with business teams and key stakeholders, removes obstacles for sourcing teams, and works with Finance and business teams to ensure negotiated savings are realized.
• Collaborates with the business to ensure clarity of specifications and requirements.
• Leads strategic sourcing initiatives, following a 7-step spend management methodology. Ensures process excellence, and frames strategic issues and supply options.
• Conducts successful supplier negotiations focused on total cost and ensures all business terms are clearly outlined in supplier agreements.
• Develops implementation and transition plans and supports change management initiatives.
• Manages complex sourcing and demand management initiatives.
• Ensures teams understand supply markets and develop innovative supply solutions.
• Develops strong supplier partnership and development programs. Conducts quarterly business reviews, measures performance through scorecards, and ensures new value is created year-over-year.
• Ensures integrity of savings tracking and reporting efforts.
• Hires, develops, and coaches Strategic Procurement team.
• Establishes and creates department training and development programs.
• Works with business teams to demonstrate strategic value of Strategic Procurement team, and ensures strong sponsorship and participation from cross-functional teams.
• Develops, communicates, and actively manages Strategic Procurement goals and strategies with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Ensures integrity of work done, following vision, mission, and values.

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