Chief Procurement Officer
Cushman & Wakefield
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $255,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Drive and deliver a comprehensive global procurement transformation, including the implementation of a new global vendor management system, process modernization, and the development of a high-performing, adaptable team to achieve strategic objectives.
- Continue efforts to build a robust global supplier network. Optimize supplier management functions, and monetize third-party spend through effective negotiations and vendor price discount strategies to enhance EBITDA.
- Design and implement scalable operating models and category management frameworks, ensuring governance, transparency, and dedicated ownership for key spend areas across the organization globally.
- Oversee the creation and tracking of project plans, key performance indicators, and financial and operational reports to monitor progress, enforce accountability, and provide clear status updates to executive leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and at least 15 years of related professional work experience desired
- Master’s degree preferred
- Proven executive experience in procurement or with a track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to modernize functions through technology enablement, process redesign, and team development.
- Expertise in driving organizational change, fostering stakeholder engagement, and ensuring rapid adoption of new processes and systems across global teams.
- Strong ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including service line leadership, suppliers, and clients.
- Skilled at balancing local/regional needs with global frameworks to deliver measurable improvements in satisfaction and value.
- Executive Leadership – Ability to drive performance from direct team and overall corporation.
- Strategic Planning – Experience in designing and implementing scalable operating models and category management frameworks, with a focus on governance, transparency, and ownership of key spend areas.
- Deep understanding of financial management within procurement, including spend analytics, reporting, and strategies to optimize EBITDA through vendor negotiations and cost reduction.
- Procurement Infrastructure and Data Governance – Experience and expertise in developing/designing and running all aspects of a Procurement Center of Excellence.
- Experience and expertise in developing a ground-up data warehouse/cube/lake approach to provide the required data to make critical financial decisions and report status to key stakeholders.
Benefits
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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Hard skills
procurementvendor managementprocess modernizationcategory managementfinancial managementspend analyticsdata governancedata warehousecost reductionnegotiation strategies
Soft skills
executive leadershiporganizational changestakeholder engagementrelationship buildingstrategic planningteam developmentperformance managementadaptabilitycommunicationaccountability