Senior Director, Procurement
Nutrien Ag Solutions LAS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Calgary • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
About the role
- Lead, manage, and develop a Procurement team.
- Build the right procurement team (recruitment, training, staffing, and retention).
- Decide individual annual professional development plans with skills plans and performance targets.
- Regularly review progress, and customer feedback and monitor KPIs with procurement directors on procurement sourcing categories, projects, and functions.
- Set up Procurement Strategy and Planning.
- Development and communication of global strategic vision.
- Management of long-term partnerships with key strategic suppliers based on quality, cost, service delivery and responsiveness.
- Establish and maintain clarity of responsibilities within decision processes.
- Provide leadership direction and support to the procurement team.
- Recommend and decide an integrated strategic plan for the group procurement organization.
- Approve targets for spend reduction (pricing, TCO, and usage control), purchasing efficiency, customer/site service, and vendor management.
- Prioritize and recommend resource levels across procurement sourcing categories, projects, and functions.
- Support cross-collaboration among different Procurement teams – Category management, Site procurement, and Capital procurement.
- Ensure that there is close collaboration and ways of working across Procurement teams to deliver end-to-end category strategy from the center to the sites.
- Enables integrated Capex and Opex category strategies and execution between Category management and Capital teams.
- Help emerge the cross-site opportunities to the right level of the organization – category management team to ensure cross-site and Nutrien purchasing leverage.
- Coordinates the rollout of the new operating model and ensures that the right skills are in place in the organization.
- Ensure procurement functions are meeting site needs (standards and tools, knowledge management).
- Ensure that decision-making processes are in place and used.
- Review and approval of procurement budgets and performance targets to ensure highly efficient and effective procurement organization.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering or related field.
- 15+ years of relevant experience, including at least 10 years of progressive leadership experience.
- 10+ years of dedicated procurement experience and track record of delivering savings.
- Have successfully driven Procurement across multiple categories, demonstrating leadership and influencing skills across multiple regions, functions, and with business leaders.
- Ideally, the executive will have broader commercial or P&L experience.
- Demonstrated capability to take on increasing responsibilities quickly, as demonstrated by a steep career path.
- Leadership capabilities and experience in leading and managing a large procurement organization.
- Significant experience in strategic planning, resource allocation/prioritization, target setting, and budgeting.
- Awareness of cost drivers across multiple classes of cost categories.
- Negotiating techniques.
- Although not required, a graduate degree (MBA or similar) would be an asset.
- Willingness and ability to travel, mostly within North America, 25%-50% of time.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
procurementstrategic planningresource allocationbudgetingnegotiating techniquessourcing categoriesvendor managementspend reductionperformance targetscost drivers
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementcommunicationinfluencingcollaborationcustomer feedbackdecision-makingtrainingstaffingretention
Certifications
Bachelors degreeMBA