Director Global Procurement
Director Global Procurement
Schneider Electric
Nashville, TN
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The Global Procurement Strategy Director will help drive strategy and organization improvement projects. This role provides broad exposure across Global Supply Chain domains (e.g., quality, sustainability, risk management, process excellence, and digitization) and procurement categories (e.g., semiconductor, fabricated parts, raw materials, etc.) as well as the platform to work with executives and other levels. The role is for fast and adaptable learners/problem solvers who enjoy tackling challenges in a dynamic environment.
You will be part of an industry-leading organization (#1 in Gartner’s 2023 and 2024 Global Supply Chain ranking, etc.) and can rotate into other roles.
What will you do in this position?
- Drive key procurement strategy topics and coordination of such strategy execution across the 1,500 people+ Procurement organization globally
- Be an instrumental part of procurement organizational improvement projects, in alignment with broader supply chain and corporate strategy
- Manage independent workstreams to formulate data-driven insights/recommendations
- Understand the problem and context
- Conduct data gathering and analysis across applicable Procurement and Supply Chain teams
- Synthesize and align with stakeholders
- Develop and validate proposed path forward; coordinate Procurement organization to implement
- Help prepare executive level presentations
- Support ad hoc assignments to drive strategic topics and coordinate project launch of such topics
Qualifications
What qualifications will make you successful for this role?
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, etc.;
- Direct or indirect category management, procurement digitalization, and procurement operations process execution working knowledge required (4+ years of Procurement sourcing and category management experience)
- 7+ years of experience of driving Procurement strategy-related topics problem definition, analytics, stakeholder alignment on solution exploration, and coordination of global execution, preferably in combination of both top tier management consulting firms and industry settings; 5+ years of management consulting experience required
- Experience working in a complex global matrix organization
- Ownership mindset with proven ability to deliver
- Curious and investigative nature
- Ability to connect qualitative and quantitative data points to distill the big picture
- Strong communication and influence skills
- Proficient in MS PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
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Seniority level
Director -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Supply Chain and Purchasing -
Industries
Automation Machinery Manufacturing, Manufacturing, and Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
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