Regional Category Director

Schneider Electric is seeking a Procurement Director reporting into the North American Chief Procurement Officer. Responsible to build and lead our Regional Category Managers over Fabricated Components and Raw Materials. This organization defines, promotes, and ensures the deployment of the regional commodity strategies across five business units and 42 factories.

What will you do?

The Procurement Director will lead the team in the Strategy and the Sourcing of metals, plastics, and fabrication for North America. This leadership role is also responsible to collaborate globally with their peers on methodologies, tools, best practices, and market analytics.

Successfully manage and lead a strong team to actively:

· Perform needs analysis for different Schneider entities in North America and segment the category needs.

· Perform market analysis / intelligence and identification of market trends that could affect the pricing and supply

· Identify and propose to the cross functional teams a list of Strategic suppliers for the geographic zones as per needs segmentation.

· Assess and mitigate supplier risk (quality, bankruptcy, shortage)

· Contribute to the development and deployment of the regional cost models, scoring models etc

· Drive dynamically the optimization of the supplier base

· Develop a short, medium, and long term strategy for the specific category (1,3,5 year strategy)

· Communicate strategy at executive levels in North America

Execution:

Successfully manage and lead a strong team to actively:

· Directly manage Strategic suppliers and (Director) get involved in key negotiations for the region.

· Support the other purchasers (new product introduction, global) in their negotiations (tools, arguments)

· Support the implementation of productivity on QVE (Quality Value Engineering) and CoS (Change of Supplier) and identify new savings opportunities with the cross functional team

· Plan business reviews with Strategic suppliers located in the geographic zone and assign the task to the respective supplier leaders in that zone. Director to participate in key strategic supplier business reviews.

· Follow up on supplier development and improvement action plans

· Deploy supplier development and improvement action plans

· Deploy supplier framework agreements with the Strategic suppliers located in their geographic zone

· Propose to the internal stakeholders the evolution of the Supplier Orientation Chart based on the Evolution of the Category Strategy

· Lead qualification process for any new supplier linked to the category

· Coordinate continuous action plan with internal stakeholders to fight against creation of any new supplier out of team’s control

Performance Monitoring:

· Track the monthly Performance for the suppliers delivering to the region (Quality, Service, Productivity)

· Handle most critical crisis with Strategic suppliers

Schneider Electric is seeking a Procurement Director reporting into the North American Chief Procurement Officer. Responsible to build and lead our Regional Category Managers over Fabricated Components and Raw Materials. This organization defines, promotes, and ensures the deployment of the regional commodity strategies across five business units and 42 factories.

What will you do?

The Procurement Director will lead the team in the Strategy and the Sourcing of metals, plastics, and fabrication for North America. This leadership role is also responsible to collaborate globally with their peers on methodologies, tools, best practices, and market analytics.

Strategy:

Successfully manage and lead a strong team to actively:

· Perform needs analysis for different Schneider entities in North America and segment the category needs.

· Perform market analysis / intelligence and identification of market trends that could affect the pricing and supply

· Identify and propose to the cross functional teams a list of Strategic suppliers for the geographic zones as per needs segmentation.

· Assess and mitigate supplier risk (quality, bankruptcy, shortage)

· Contribute to the development and deployment of the regional cost models, scoring models etc

· Drive dynamically the optimization of the supplier base

· Develop a short, medium, and long term strategy for the specific category (1,3,5 year strategy)

· Communicate strategy at executive levels in North America

Execution:

Successfully manage and lead a strong team to actively:

· Directly manage Strategic suppliers and (Director) get involved in key negotiations for the region.

· Support the other purchasers (new product introduction, global) in their negotiations (tools, arguments)

· Support the implementation of productivity on QVE (Quality Value Engineering) and CoS (Change of Supplier) and identify new savings opportunities with the cross functional team

· Plan business reviews with Strategic suppliers located in the geographic zone and assign the task to the respective supplier leaders in that zone. Director to participate in key strategic supplier business reviews.

· Follow up on supplier development and improvement action plans

· Deploy supplier development and improvement action plans

· Deploy supplier framework agreements with the Strategic suppliers located in their geographic zone

· Propose to the internal stakeholders the evolution of the Supplier Orientation Chart based on the Evolution of the Category Strategy

· Lead qualification process for any new supplier linked to the category

· Coordinate continuous action plan with internal stakeholders to fight against creation of any new supplier out of team’s control

Performance Monitoring:

· Track the monthly Performance for the suppliers delivering to the region (Quality, Service, Productivity)

· Handle most critical crisis with Strategic suppliers

What qualifications will make you successful?

Experience growing a large procurement organization from tactical to strategic and execution. Experience with developing and partnering with suppliers on volume growth. Ability to consistently demonstrate executive presence and to build the best team, foster great collaboration, empower growth and development while maintaining high levels of engagement.

This job might be for you if you fit the following requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Mechanical/ Industrial/Electronics Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related, required

· Master’s degree, a plus

· Ability to speak and write in English fluently

· Minimum 10 years of experience in Procurement, Purchasing and/or Supply Chain

· Prior experience managing category management teams

· Ability to interact and negotiate with Key suppliers and Schneider executives on key contracts and services, Negotiation skills in a complex and moving environment

· Ability to work in multicultural and cross functional mode, strong operational and strategical

· Project Management experience desired

· Experience with successful Procurement supplier negotiations

· Knowledge on legal contracts and risk management

· Open minded and results oriented

· Leadership skills with the proven ability to influence others

· Ability to work well in a team and independently

· Ability to work under pressure

· Proactive approach to work

· Strategic thinking, problem solving and analytical skills

· Skills, ability to deliver on time, work in project mode, meet deadlines, push decisions