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Club Med · 1 day ago

Director of Purchasing

Club Med is a pioneer of the all-inclusive concept, offering upscale sun and ski resorts globally. The North America Regional Purchasing Director will manage the purchasing and logistics department, define procurement strategies, and oversee supplier relationships to ensure quality goods and services for resorts and offices.

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Responsibilities

Define, communicate, and execute Club Med’s procurement strategy both for Club Med resorts & offices (purchasing and logistic)
Lead regular tenders or consultations and sourcing actions to be able to:
Challenge and improve the local purchasing policy and procurement framework
Review purchasing and logistics processes to streamline the organization of the department and the collaboration with stakeholders
Ensure the respect of worldwide Club Med guidelines and Purchasing processes in the zone
Provide the whole Club Med with potential performing and compliant suppliers from the area (sourcing actions for the Group; international proactive cooperation within Purchasing department needed)
Assess the logistics model in the zone and adapt it to changing environments and stakes
Provide resorts and offices with goods and services they need with the best quality, cost and delivery conditions
Challenge the needs with a positive and business partner spirit
Be able to directly manage specific strategic purchasing categories
Work in collaboration with different internal stakeholders such as Operations, Legal and Finance
Oversee the functioning between Purchasing and Logistics
Assess the necessary developments or changes to operate in the Procure-to-Pay tool to align it with Processes and methods in the zone
Report the KPI of the department and share/align on priorities with internal stakeholders
In charge of the budget and forecast, communicate outcomes with Finance and Global Purchasing department
Direct management of Buyers and Supply Chain Manager
Optimize organization and time of team members to concentrate energies on added value actions and business continuity
Monitor, challenge and report the procurement performance contribution for BU and Group business reporting and Budget
Have permanent monitoring and improvement actions on internal control disposal (including pools resort professionalization road map, procedures, tools deployment and use…)
Identify risks for the activity, define and put in place action plan to anticipate or tackle them

Qualification

Purchasing strategySupply chain managementBudget managementMulticultural team managementProcurement performance monitoringProject managementResilienceEthic / integrityRigorOrganizationCooperationMS OfficePurchasing IT systemsEnglishSpanishFrenchLeadership

Required

Relevant experience in purchasing (10 years minimum in purchasing and Supply Chain)
Education: Bachelor of Business Administration or/and advanced education in purchasing / Finance
Leadership, resilience, hands-on
Capacity to conduct change, to define and set up new disposal
Management of a multicultural team
Ethic / integrity
Rigor and organization
Project management
Business oriented
Cooperation
English
Spanish
MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Ability to get familiar with specific Purchasing IT systems (Coupa)

Preferred

experience Sector of activity: tourism, leisure, distribution, luxury, hospitality activity
French (Is a plus)

Company

Club Med

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Club Med sells vacations and related services, operates villages and cruises, and provides tours and discovery programs.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.06B
2015-02-01Private Equity· $1.06B

Leadership Team

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Stephane Maquaire
PDG
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