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Saint-Gobain North America · 3 weeks ago

Manager, Indirect Central Purchasing

Malvern, PA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

Saint-Gobain North America is a leading company in the manufacturing sector, seeking a Manager for their Indirect Central Purchasing team. The role involves managing the purchasing strategy for central services, engaging with leadership teams, and driving purchasing activities across North America to optimize indirect spend.

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Responsibilities

Establish and lead cross-functional teams to develop, advocate, and implement best-in-class purchasing category strategies to achieve short and long-term objectives, working closely with related internal departments (eg. Legal, Privacy, IT& Security) to ensure success

Effectively communicate applicable industry information to relevant stakeholders and leadership. Advocate for changes in process after identifying Market best practices

Strategize, lead sourcing, supplier negotiations, contract negotiations, and supplier selection to optimize the value proposition and drive savings associated with the assigned categories of indirect spend for North American businesses utilizing the digital purchasing e-Tools provided by Saint-Gobain

Maintain a robust contract management process with SLA tracking, periodic Executive meetings or through any other necessary

Develop, maintain, and validate KPL reports to track program performance and ensure regular, consistent stakeholder

Engagement for each assigned category; collect and manage data from external (suppliers) resources as well as other industry benchmarks and internal purchasing resources. Engage with stakeh.-Ider leadership to partner in supplier meetings to ensure service level tracking, compliance, and opportunities for improvements/incremental cost savings. Prepare and publish progress and periodic reports to management

Organize and lead periodic reviews for the Marketing and Finance categories related to Purchasing strategy, preferred suppliers, and performance against key indicators supporting central stakeholder community comprised of central services directors and VPs

Provide multi-modal communication to all levels of Central stakeholders and global Purchasing leaders

Align newly acquisitioned businesses into the CertainTeed/Saint-Gobain Purchasing function and deploy synergies within the preferred vendor network aimed at reducing cost or improving service

Periodic review of supplier catalogs available in Saint-Gobain’s buying platform, Agora, to assess the ever-evolving needs of employees in need of a streamlined, non-Purchasing led purchase process and collaboration with the Senior Manager, Indirect Central Purchasing to improve the program

Qualification

Purchasing strategySupplier negotiationsContract managementCategory managementData analysisStakeholder communicationMarket best practicesCross-functional leadershipProject management