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Procurement Specialist (TG757/758)

2010-01-19T14:13:00.001-07:00

Opportunity Highlights

Our Client is reorganizing their manufacturing procurement and supply chain capabilities.A program to transform our Client's Manufacturing Procurement and Supply Chain (PSCM) capability is underway. We therefore need talented and experienced Procurement professionals who are ready for the challenge of shaping the new PSCM organization.

The Procurement Specialist will drive the effective management of significant third party spend across one or more categories at the refinery in Texas. The Procurement Specialist will help drive delivery and implementation activities of getting value delivered to the bottom line, driving behavioral change, developing new business process, measuring and tracking performance, driving appropriate compliance, and leading local/regional procurement teams for some specific material and service commodities across the Texas refinery.

The Procurement Specialist is responsible for the direction and administration of the site procurement activities based on assigned material and commodity responsibilities working along with the other Procurement Specialist and Procurement Associates. This position may be focused on one or more of the following commodities/services: inspection services, industrial cleaning services, consulting services, or MRO. The day-to-day focus of this position is the support of plant maintenance, operations and site services to accomplish business unit manufacturing objectives as detailed in the plants' and business unit's performance contracts.

Company Information

Our client is a Fortune 20 global energy leader. With a workforce of nearly 100,000 employees, the client operates globally, with business activities and customers in more than 100 countries across six continents.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of specific engineering and maintenance service commodities.
• Gather the site requirements, negotiate contracts and lead procure on behalf of the business for specific commodities.
• Work closely with the relevant strategic sourcing contact to leverage more value within the specific commodities.
• Be a team player and work with a motivated group of site procurement personnel.
• Be the preferred provider of procurement services to the business' operations, maintenance and site services.
• Provide materials and services procurement expertise to relevant site stakeholders.
• Engage stakeholders in a constructive manner to further business unit and site business objectives.
• Provide procurement guidance, interface with the procurement network, ensure compliance with established methods and protocols and support overall business unit's performance plans.
• Develop strong working relationships with all site support services, taking the lead in utilization of these internal resources as well as continually benchmarking externally to assure a competitive cost structure in support of business objectives and goals.
• Develop and report third party cost savings in support of the group's goal to reduce this category spend.
• Proactively ensure proper purchase order generation, updating purchase order header and text information and pricing to minimize the potential for blocked invoices.
• Review and manage service contracts and site material and develop action plans to review and manage those contracts.
• Support the site after-hours and in emergency response as needed.
• Support the management of the departmental costs to meet or reduce plan performance budget.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Minimum 7 years procurement and contracting experience
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree desired
• Strong commercial skills and business acumen
• Good understanding of the relevant supplier bases, organization and cost structure.
• Intermediate analytical skills.
• Proven self-motivator with ability to network effectively.
• Proven ability to create innovation with an openness to change.
• Solid facilitation skills.
• Solid computer system skills - SAP, Excel, Access, Word, Traction

Location Texas

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Director - Procurement Strategic Sourcing - Print, Marketing, Shared Services

2009-12-22T10:44:00.001-07:00

Company: Innovative and forward-looking company is known as a global leader in the area of telecom and communications in North America

Location: Canada

Position Reports to: VP

Opportunity Highlights: This key role will be a significant part of a strong procurement group for the sourcing organization of a true world leader in telecom and communications. The incumbent will have significant oversight and responsibility for a cross-enterprise services procurement team and will manage the portfolio of services associated with facilities and operations. This will focus on the stewardship and governance of key spend associated with professional services, consultants, contractors, HR, training, office supplies/services/equipment, print, postage and others. The Director will also lead the development of sourcing strategies with the goal of optimizing cost, driving ongoing performance from the supply-base, and increasing value-for-money in spend in the above listed categories. In addition to the leadership responsibilities mentioned above, the Director will also provide counsel and coaching to more junior sourcing and procurement team members. Here are some other key responsibilities:

• Provide strategic insights on transactional movements in annual spend
• Develop/drive strategic approach to achieving annual savings targets and track results of efforts
• Lead Strategic Sourcing initiatives to minimize category spend (3-5 projects per year) and present updates, analysis, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Responsible for supplier performance including chairing regular performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs
• Champion procurement transformation projects with the support of the team
• Mentor and educate other staff in procurement concepts, financial analysis and world-wide marketplace

Company Information: Recent growth in their customer base has been significant, fueled by major multi-year lucrative contracts with major Canadian governmental entities. Their product base is wide, including cutting-edge communication technologies in the area of wireless, video-on-demand, pay-per-view television, personal video recorder (PVR) services, and VOIP. As part of a campaign to expand into other stable and growing industries, they recently made a strategic acquisition in the area of enterprise services. As a company with a significant presence in North America, they employ over 25,000 people in various locations.

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Job: Director - Procurement Strategic Sourcing - Contractors & Professional Services

2009-12-22T10:39:00.002-07:00

Company: Innovative and forward-looking company is known as a global leader in the area of telecom and communications in North America.

Location: Canada

Position Reports to: VP

Opportunity Highlights: This key role will be a significant part of a strong procurement group for the sourcing organization of a true world leader in telecom and communications. The incumbent will have significant oversight and responsibility for a cross-enterprise services procurement team and will manage the portfolio of services associated with facilities and operations. This will focus on the stewardship and governance of key spend associated with Contractors and Professional Services. The Director will also lead the development of sourcing strategies with the goal of optimizing cost, driving ongoing performance from the supply-base, and increasing value-for-money in spend in the above listed categories. In addition to the leadership responsibilities mentioned above, the Director will also provide counsel and coaching to more junior sourcing and procurement team members. Here are some other key responsibilities:

Provide strategic insights on transactional movements in annual spend
Develop/drive strategic approach to achieving annual savings targets and track results of efforts
Lead Strategic Sourcing initiatives to minimize category spend (3-5 projects per year) and present updates, analysis, and recommendations to stakeholders
Responsible for supplier performance including chairing regular performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs
Champion procurement transformation projects with the support of the team
Mentor and educate other staff in procurement concepts, financial analysis and world-wide marketplace

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VP Level - Procurement Director – Global Manufacturing

2008-10-29T10:52:00.002-06:00

Company: Fortune 20 Global Energy Leader

Location: Chicago, IL Area

Position Reports to: VP

Opportunity Highlights

This high visibility role offers the rare opportunity to help lead the procurement organization of a Top 20 Fortune Global Leader.

The incumbent will take ownership of a complex global spend portfolio of $7 billion (including CAPEX) and a team of approximately 230 around the world. 30% of this team will report to this role on a ‘hard line’ basis, the rest through ‘dotted line’ reporting across the operational sites. The Manufacturing Procurement team provides coverage for assets globally. This will involve the creation and execution of a coherent and holistic PSCM strategy, ensuring active support from business unit leaders across the SPU. The strategy will include significant upgrades of our people, process and systems capability, within both the sector and site procurement teams and will also influence process improvement in the business line.

The Procurement Director, Global Manufacturing is the single point of accountability for the quality and cost of Procurement service delivery to the organization. From a strategic perspective, the role will be responsible for improving operational excellence, reducing third party spend, and for cost and capital efficiency. Tactically, this will be delivered through a growth in competency of the procurement community, translating business strategies into competitive category, supplier and contractor plans and priorities, and developing and embedding the supporting processes and practices to underpin delivery. These objectives must be achieved while assuring the supply of products and services and, critically, without compromising the safety, operability and reliability of manufacturing assets.

The incumbent will join a global organization with a strong philosophy of personal development at all levels across the organization. A role with this level of visibility has the chance to make an impact on key decision makers globally.

Company Information

Our client is a Fortune 20 global energy leader. With a workforce of nearly 100,000 employees, the client operates globally, with business activities and customers in more than 100 countries across six continents.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains vision and strategy for PSCM transformation in Refining/Manufacturing that aligns with and supports delivery of the SPU business agenda.
• Leads and sustains the delivery of the Refining transformation agenda for PSCM, ensuring ongoing business line engagement, resources and planning.
• Leads Refining SPU PSCM team, establishing and communicating vision and strategic direction, providing business context, coaching and direction to enable the team to meet its performance targets.
• Builds strong relationships with senior refining/manufacturing SPU stakeholders to ensure alignment around a single strategic vision, strategy and annual agenda.
• Represents company with strategic suppliers/contractors, ensuring performance requirements are understood and being met.
• Creates a working environment that encourages high performance and calculated entrepreneurial risk taking.
• Selects and combines talent and diversity to achieve outstanding results, ensuring the immediate and long term availability of sufficient competent and motivated PSCM staff to meet the business needs. Champions PSCM capability development across the SPU.
• Ensures commodity strategies reflect the HSSE priorities of the SPU and champions HSSE standards amongst PSCM teams and the external supply base.
• Promotes compliance with code of conduct, ensuring, by personal example and coaching, that staff understands and practice ethical business behavior. Ensures suppliers and contractors are monitored as appropriate to ensure they work in a manner consistent with the code.

Qualifications/Requirements

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Proven track record and experience as an executive business leader and change agent in organizations of scale and complexity; you are likely to be operating currently as a Head of Procurement, regional Lead/VP or Chief Procurement Officer in an international organization.
• Experience gained in Refining and/or a large scale, complex 24/7 process manufacturing industry; ideally with experience gained both inside and outside the manufacturing sector.
• Experience of supply chain management in a manufacturing environment, ideally including materials management.
• Experience of leading significant operational change, including the upgrade of procurement process, data and systems.
• Well developed leadership skills, with a good mix of strong conceptual thinking, a hands on approach to the management/engagement of people and the charisma to ‘sell the vision’.
• Intellect is essential and it is likely that the successful candidate will be a graduate.
• High level of commercial and financial awareness with the credentials and gravitas to influence EVP / President / Executive Committee level.
• Clear negotiation skills; a strong track record of successful $multi-million complex deal making.
• Cultural sensitivity and a ‘global mindset’; extensive experience working internationally.
• High drive, energy and resilience, with the ‘edge’ to achieve extraordinary results.

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Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist - Energy

2008-10-29T10:47:00.002-06:00

Company: Fortune 20 Global Energy Leader

Location: Oklahoma, US

Position Reports to: Manager

Opportunity Highlights

Leads the development and execution of critical sourcing initiatives, adding value though their breadth of experience, expertise, and established networks. Develops and executes sourcing strategies in alignment with applicable market sector and commodity strategies. Responsible for working with Engineering company purchasing manager and engineering manager in overseeing procurement activities for engineered equipment.

The role has overall accountability for implementing procurement plan and process for topsides delivery and includes understanding the local business objectives and desired outcomes, engaging internal customers and building support for the initiatives, understanding options and risks associated with supply chain activities, building supplier relationships in order to achieve superior supplier performance, negotiating commercial terms to deliver best value solutions, and measuring / reporting the value delivered.

Company Information

Our client is a Fortune 20 global energy leader. With a workforce of nearly 100,000 employees, the client operates globally, with business activities and customers in more than 100 countries across six continents.

Responsibilities

- Understand PU’s business requirements for third party goods and services and develop and maintain knowledge of local supply market place

- Lead the development, implementation and communication of the contracting strategies, prepared in alignment with SPU’s market sector strategies, to ensure access to qualified (HSE, technical, financial) capable suppliers

- Work with the business and suppliers to ensure standardization, technical optimization, value engineering, process improvements and continuous improvements practices are considered in the strategies

- Conduct the full sourcing process, development of scope, supplier selection, commercial negotiation and contract execution
- Coordinate additional company expertise input through consultative dialogue with other Procurement & SCM (PSCM) teams and/or SPU representatives, specific to HSE, tax, legal, finance, insurance, audit, etc.

- Participates in the development and implementation of supplier performance management strategies

- Engages the business and provide guidance on PSCM process and risk management

- Participates in company networks, sharing information, best practices and lessons learned

Qualifications/Requirements

To be considered for the role of Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist, applicants must meet the following criteria and qualifications:

- Legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than your current employer

- The willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time in order to fulfil the responsibilities of this position

- Minimum of a Bachelor degree

- Minimum of 7 years in procurement and supply chain

- Experience in supplier performance management

- Well versed in the strategic sourcing methodology and process working cross functionally

- Procurement experience with products and services

- Experience in developing contracting strategies

- Strong commercial acumen

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