VP, Procurement Excellence & Performance
- Haarlem, Noord-Holland
- Vast
- Voltijds
- Lead and inspire a diverse team of ~50 procurement professionals, providing guidance and support. Set clear goals and objectives, monitor performance, and facilitate professional growth. Promote collaboration and teamwork to achieve departmental and organizational goals.
- Improve the end-to-end efficiency and effectiveness of Source to Pay processes, Global Procurement Programs and Corporate Programs including ESG and Working Capital
- Transform Procurement systems and reporting tools to increase accuracy and timeliness while driving efficiency
- Build strategic capability standards for the organization including category strategy standards, SRM, and preferred supplier programs
- Lead efforts to streamline and automate core processes such as Purchasing and Sourcing Operations.
- Ensure that processes are efficient, effective, customer focused and enable procurement teams to deliver strategic objectives.
- Develop and lead implementation of procurement digital strategy to support the needs of the business and to support improved stakeholder adherence with Procurement tools, policies and initiatives.
- Oversees that procurement processes and standards are in compliance with other internal and external processes. Resolves any compliance issues in a timely manner.
- Lead the development and maintenance of procurement analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools. Provide data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making in procurement.
- Continuously analyze market trends, supplier performance, and cost structures to identify risks and opportunities for improvement and implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Accountable for the development and facilitating execution of a comprehensive learning and development program for the procurement team. Identify training needs, design curriculum, and ensure skill development among procurement professionals. Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the procurement department.
- 15 years' experience in a Global Procurement Leadership role.
- Multi-Industry experience is desired
- Strong grasp of the procurement technology landscape
- Experience in change management and Global Procurement Transformation
- Required experience in a global environment, leading cross-functional teams, managing multiple simultaneous high visibility projects.
- Operational expertise in risk management and contingency planning
- Strong communications skills
- Working knowledge of financial and managerial accounting principles
- Experience in Ariba or other S2C/P2P solutions desirable
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, materials mgmt., purchasing, business or engineering is required
- MBA or relevant MS degree appreciated
- Proven leadership capabilities and strategic thinking, strong interpersonal skills including cross-functional teamwork, effective written and oral communication skills, strong multi-cultural skills, high energy levels and a bias towards action
- Constructively challenges status quo to generate open dialogues. Thinks out-of-the-box.
- Ability to develop and execute strategies
- Advanced project management and analytical skills
- Experience in managing end-to-end processes
- Well established external network for best practice sharing
- Solid understanding of sourcing and contract management and P2P best practices, policies and tools
- Proven ability to collaborate and influence
- Previous experience with Ariba and other Procurement process and system solutions and associated change management methodologies
- MS office skills (e.g., excel and power point)
- Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis.
- Hands-on problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly define a problem, synthesize data to drive fact-based insights and strategic implications, and facilitate development of clear and thoughtful recommendations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with a variety of levels, cultures, individuals and departments.
- Incorporates excellent Senior Stakeholder Management skills to manage escalations from business and suppliers
- Ability to operate within policies and procedures demonstrated by audit reports without exceptions, and enforces policies and procedures for procurement.