Total 5 Director/C-Level Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in Austin, Texas, United States of America

As a Supervisory Contract Specialist (Chief Procurement Officer), you will:

• Designate and provide re-delegation of authority to qualified subordinate contracting officers including the establishment of monetary limitation and signatory authority as is considered appropriate.
• Through subordinate supervisors, direct the development of Bureau wide policies, procedures and guidelines, and bulletins for procurement programs to provide direction for all personnel in conducting purchasing and contracting functions effectively and promotes economic efficiency.
• Address procurement operating guidelines via periodic meetings with Bureau procurement personnel and review and appraise operations through improvement of Bureau procurement operations.
• Function as the Bureau's chief liaison official with the Office of the Procurement Executive (OPE), Treasury Department - reviewing draft Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR) and other proposed regulations and statutes and developing and presenting the Bureau's position on each, which is forwarded to OPE for inclusion in the Treasury Department's composite response.
• Serve as principal technical consultant to the Director, Deputy Directors, and Associate Directors on all procurement matters - providing advice to other Bureau officials and to the Bureau procurement staff, especially in the more complex aspects of contract formulation, contract administration, terminations, disputes, and protests.

Starting at $163,964 Per Year (GS 15)

As Practice Leader and Senior Director, serves as a member of the management team by supervising the Program Acquisition & Assistance (PAA) Practice Group and providing intellectual and technical leadership over MCC's programs, policies, and practices for the compact Procurement functions. Provides leadership, strategic guidance, and oversight over the execution of MCC's program procurement guidelines across the portfolio. The Practice Leader and Senior Director:

• Defines and develops MCC's approach to international public procurement procedures and functions with partner countries.
• Serves as a recognized expert and senior advisor to MCC leaders on issues related to international public procurement.
• Defines best practices, templates, procurement management tools and approaches, and other guidance to be applied across MCC disciplines.
• Leads MCC's procurement outreach efforts with the private sector, including organizing events, industry days, target marketing, and building relationships with private sector firms and other US government agencies.
• Formulates and recommends plans to improve policies, practices, methods, and organizational operations related to international public procurement.
• Incorporates industry trends such as sustainable procurement and Artificial Intelligence related to the subject matter of international public procurement into ongoing programs and initiatives.
• Represents MCC in external forums vis-à-vis technical discussions, deliberations, and other knowledge management activities concerning areas of expertise.
• Coordinates and consults with other donors and research providers to keep abreast of best practices and trends.
• Manages teams of professional experts and coordinates and interacts with a variety of stakeholders at different managerial levels
• Exercises technical and administrative supervision of subordinates.
• Ensures a continuing affirmative application of MCC policies concerning equal opportunity.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Starting at $165,170 Per Year (MC 00)

As the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), you will oversee, manage, and develop policies and procedures involving the procurement of supplies, construction, and services required to manage the overall operational efficiency within the Secret Service. As the agency authority on procurement and contracting matters, you will be responsible for the acquisition of all goods and services for the protective, investigative, and administrative mission of the Secret Service.

As a key executive advisor, you will inform the Chief Management Officer and the Chief Operating Officer on the interpretation of contracting laws, principles, and regulations to generate new procurement concepts or make recommendations regarding procurement matters impacting the Secret Service.

The primary duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Acquires commercial items, classified/sensitive intelligence technology, protective countermeasures, major nationwide telecommunication network systems, complex and diversified information technology systems and services, major system acquisitions for highly sensitive investigation and protection equipment, and state-of-the-art electronic and security systems. Products and services procured are unique, time sensitive, high dollar value and critical to the mission of the Secret Service.
• Plans, directs, and oversees a worldwide centralized procurement program through several subordinate supervisors who directly supervise contract and procurement specialists, automation specialists, and administrative/support personnel in procuring equipment, supplies, and services for the Secret Service.
• Refines procurement policies used in the acquisition of goods and services to enhance operational efficiency; develops and implements new procedures and processes to streamline and improve operations.
• Develops and maintains liaison with officials from other Federal agencies as well as state and local agencies, the private sector, administrators of other related programs and professional associations, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
• Keeps abreast of newly proposed or enacted legislation impacting procurement programs, program innovations at the Federal, state, and local levels, and in the private sector. Provides authoritative interpretations, instructions, and guidance relative to all phases of procurement management. Provides information and guidance at meetings with senior officials of the Secret Service.

Starting at $147,649 Per Year (ES 00)

About GlobalFoundries:
GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role:

The Director of Procurement and Supply Chain Finance will partner with Supply Chain Management to extract hidden competitive advantages in the company’s sourcing, procurement, logistics and distribution chain. This job will create structural transparency and accountability using KPIs. This role will represent the finance agenda in a variety of projects from transformational to tactical that are aimed at improving the financial outcomes of our worldwide operation. These can include maximizing revenue, minimizing cost, reducing inventory, reducing supplier pricing, etc. This position will be one of the leaders tasked with increasing the analytical capability and data driven decision making in procurement and supply chain.

 

A qualified candidate will be comfortable as a change catalyst.  Candidate needs to have experience in developing multi-year business plans. 

Essential Responsibilities:

• Create and implement a clear strategic vision of how Finance can enable supply chain to optimize the business and organization. Build an organization of analysts to partner with the Operation to achieve financial commitments.

• Provide strategic business leadership with Executive Supply Chain Management on initiatives and sequencing to create a company competitive advantage in sourcing, production, logistics, distribution, and procurement cost and sourcing

• Be one of the organizations strongest change catalysts and set that pace within your team of analysts

• Develop multi-year cost and capacity target and glide paths in line with revenue and profitability targets through production and sourcing strategies

• Develop cash targets, inventory goals and BOM targets that tie back to P&L model financial goas.

• Lead the annual budgeting and strategic planning processes and the monthly forecasting process for the consolidated Supply Chain.

• Create predictable, sustainable and repeating finance processes. Drive continuous improvement in current processes

• Coordinate the development of annual Supply Chain cost savings initiatives to achieve goals including the monitors and reports the demonstrate monthly progress

• Ensure data driven financial analysis and diligence are part of every important decision made

• Ensure compliance with all corporate accounting, GAAP, IFRS and SOX

• Stay familiar with external, emerging supply chain and bring internally

• Partner and be a peer-to-peer leader with other internal stakeholders groups at GFS
   

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
   

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of finance experience with prior procurement, sourcing or supply chain experience
• Bachelors Degree in Finance or related field
• Experience developing multi-year business plans
• Demonstrated experience driving data driven and analytic decision making
• Bias for action and results orientation
• Learning and innovative mindset
• Ability to challenge, influence/convince and manage Executives and Non-Executives.
• Ownership mind-set
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to simplify messages and communicate insights from analysis, leverage findings, and proactively make recommendations.
• Global and domestic travel is an option but not a requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Semiconductor Industry experience
• Manufacturing Industry experience
• 3yrs of people management experience
• Master's or MBA

Expected Salary Range

$131,600.00 - $276,000.00

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

Job Title

Director of Procurement

Job Description Summary

Under the direction of the Sr. Regional Procurement Director with dot line support to the Director of Operational Excellence leader, the purpose of the Procurement Director is to develop partnerships with the business unit as well as client leaders and ensure Procurement resources are aligned and executing Procurement strategies.  This role serves as a senior leader of the Procurement team with regular access and exposure to executives throughout the company in order to advocate for Procurement objectives and critical Procurement-related activities.   A primary responsibility of this position is to build strong partnerships and relationships with leadership as well as the client procurement team.     

The Procurement Director has overall responsibility for all client facing and business facing Procurement activity which is primarily focused on the execution of category management, strategic sourcing and elements of supplier management associated with the spend categories.  The Procurement Director will also be involved and at times lead the execution of any highly strategic, complex or confidential work across categories or transformation initiatives (e.g. Workday deployment, adoption, optimization, etc.).

The Procurement Director collaborates with the Procurement Vice President and business unit leaders and client sourcing executives to develop strategic plans that support business unit objectives.  The Procurement Director will be responsible for meeting or exceeding all promised savings, risk management and other performance targets and will work with the Procurement Vice President to package and communicate those results for dissemination across the executive team.

The Procurement Director has overall responsibility for hiring and retaining talent and oversight of all performance management and career development activities. In addition, the Procurement Director has direct management responsibility for his/her team of analysts, associates, and/or category managers.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Business Influence-

• Develops and maintains strong relationships with business units, client partners and penetrating the organization by continually demonstrating value and breaking down barriers to effectively manage spend.
• Engages Business Unit stakeholders to develop relationship equity.
• Supports QBR activities and other client reporting requirements for their respective business units.
• Creates a unified team environment and team goals and ensures all stakeholders understand the connection between the overall business objectives and the Procurement strategy.
• Drives for results by consistently achieving goals and pushing to complete tasks by their deadlines.
• Elevates Procurement’s status and advocating on Procurement’s behalf within CW and the client environments.
• Develops and delivers communications with clarity and impact.

Strategy & Standards-

• Leads a team that reinforces and maintains standards, processes and templates that support the delivery of procurement activities.
• Creates a roadmap that defines how influence in the organization will be gained, ensuring consistent messaging and delivery of activities is performed with business unit stakeholders so their understanding and comfort level grows.
• Encourages creation and brings new best in class ideas and approaches to the table for developing and executing category strategies and working within the supply market to ensure Cushman & Wakefield meets or exceeds their objectives.
• Develops process and sourcing strategies to leverage performance and consistency across the portfolio.

Continuous Improvement-

• Champions, and implements continuous improvement opportunities in Procurement’s processes, procedures, and systems.
• Escalates and communicates proposed Procurement-wide process or policy changes.
• Participates in external networks and makes external connections to develop and share learnings and practices.
• Develop diverse supplier network to partner and provide capacity building opportunities for key vendors.

Core Responsibilities-

• Demonstrates continuous learning and maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; motivating teams; preparing individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; staying current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; providing guidance when difficult decisions need to be made.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; gaining cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources;  setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly
• Uphold the mission and standards of the firm and support firm-wide initiatives.
• Partners with client teams to develop cohesive working relationships and communications.
• Ensure implemented programs adhere to legal, compliance, and audit requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of relevant experience in a corporate procurement role
• 5+ years of prior management experience
• Proven experience in a procurement leadership role building executive relationships and influencing strategy
• Professional certification e.g., CPSM, CIPS, C.P.M., PMP, or evidence of continued professional growth
• Building and managing diverse relationships
• Personal flexibility
• Organizational savvy
• Effective Communication
• Business acumen
• Creative problem solver
• Crisis management
• Decision making
• Leading and inspiring others
• Negotiation
• Interface with all levels in the organization

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $146,795.00 - $172,700.00

Cushman & Wakefield provides equal employment opportunity. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative​ Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without  regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

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