ICU Medical · 1 day ago
Senior Director, Direct Materials Procurement
Lake Forest, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
15+ years expICU Medical is a global market leader in clinically-essential IV therapy and critical care products. The Senior Director of Direct Materials Procurement is responsible for leading enterprise-wide Direct Materials strategy and governance, driving cost savings, and ensuring alignment with business priorities.
Health CareMedical Device
Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and direction to the Direct Sourcing teams engaged with the categories with the goal of supporting The Company’s Procurement needs, achieving year-over-year cost savings while driving continuous improvement in quality, service and innovation
Staff, develop, and build leadership capability within a global direct sourcing team, including directors and senior category leaders, that will drive sustained performance and improve procurement effectiveness
Drive a culture of continuous improvement and organization excellence. Sustain category expertise through an understanding of supply markets and trends, cost drivers and the internal business impact
Lead the team and guide them in strategic sourcing processes that leverage scale, maximize supplier relationships, minimize risks and drive business value
Establish the Direct Materials sourcing strategy framework and guide the development of effective sourcing strategies, ensuring consistency, prioritization, and alignment with enterprise objectives
Enhance processes to build strategic relationships that leverage supplier capabilities and reduce total cost of ownership. Create and implement a continuous-improvement sourcing approach for key spend areas
Act as a point of contact to resolve escalated issues from the Procurement team or stakeholders
Collaborate with key stakeholders and work cross-functionally in developing and executing sourcing strategies and material procurement plans
Own the Direct Materials procurement operating model, including governance, decision rights, performance management, and capability standards across all direct categories
Understand spend across the business, analyze category markets and translate into actionable strategies and forward-looking analyses
Lead, manage, and develop direct reports with a focus on succession planning, leadership readiness, and long-term capability building across the Direct Materials organization
Accountable for the performance, development, and results of Directors and their respective category portfolios across Direct Materials
Develop deep category expertise, maintain market intelligence and stay abreast of the changing supply base and new technologies
Oversee the end-to-end strategic sourcing process and guide sourcing teams through spend management and development of sourcing strategies
Support New Product Development by ensuring early and proactive alignment between the cross functional teams on the procurement strategy, foster early supplier involvement and leverage supplier relationships to optimize timelines and costs to the program
Collaborate with key stakeholders upstream and downstream to ensure early engagement, strong buy-in, and shared ownership of key sourcing strategies
Direct and develop a globally distributed sourcing organization that enables a step-change improvement in procurement performance
Provide clarity, focus, direction, set priorities and objectives, and through effective leadership, enable direct reports to deliver against clearly defined category and team targets
Assure direct reports develop, align, and maintain robust, value-driven strategies that deliver sustainable benefits
Provide strategic customer relationship management to key stakeholders, assuring procurement support is aligned with stakeholder interests and business needs, and providing key and objective insights to assure optimized procurement approach and decisions are made. Includes advising senior leadership on Direct Materials trade-offs, risk posture, and strategic options, while ensuring alignment with enterprise procurement direction
Strengthen and continuously improve market expertise, maintain commercial acumen across assigned spend categories and stay current on supply market trends, business economics and sourcing best practices that impact the supply market and/or supplier economics
Lead and develop proactive risk management strategies, increasing awareness and ensuring implementation of mitigation plans in close partnership with business stakeholders
Drive aggregated Direct Materials value delivery, including measurable annual cost savings, working capital, risk mitigation, and supplier performance, and ensure transparency of results to senior leadership
Drive sourcing best practices across company for assigned spend categories, ensuring compliance with all policies and procedures and maintaining a working knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations
Lead Supplier Management and utilize continuous improvement methodologies to resolve issues and elevate supplier performance
Serve as the senior escalation point for critical supplier contract negotiations and high-impact supplier issues
Qualification
Required
Must be at least 18 years of age
Bachelor's degree in purchasing, engineering, finance or business administration from an accredited college or university is required; advanced degree (MBA) strongly preferred
Extensive 15+ years of progressive experience in operations and supply chain, including 10+ years in Procurement and a minimum of 7+ years leading managers or Directors in a complex, matrixed environment
Demonstrated experience owning a multi-category or portfolio-level procurement scope, with accountability for aggregated performance across Direct Materials
Experience influencing and advising senior executive leadership on sourcing strategy, risk trade-offs, and investment decisions
Demonstrated success building leadership capability, succession pipelines, and high-performing management teams
Documented track record of developing and deploying sourcing strategies that have delivered sustained, enterprise-impacting business results
Broad and practical experience across procurement disciplines, including category management, supplier management, negotiations, contract management, and e-procurement systems
Preferred
Relevant experience managing Strategic Sourcing in a global, highly regulated industry (e.g. pharmaceutical, food) preferred
Company
ICU Medical
ICU Medical connects patients and caregivers through safe, life-saving, life-enhancing IV therapy systems, software, solutions, and consumables.
Founded in 2019San Clemente, California, USA
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.3M2012-08-15Undisclosed· $1.3M
Leadership Team
Allison Knight
Human Resources Business Partner
Ben Sousa
Chief Information Officer
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