Director of Procurement

RSS is the second largest provider of highway striping and pavement markings for roads and parking lots throughout the US. We value the safety of our employees, take pride in the quality of our work and the integrity of our team members. As a result of both organic growth and acquisitions we have a created a new role, Director of Procurement. The Director of Procurement is responsible for building and leading RSS's Procurement organization and proactively managing the company's annual Direct and Indirect spend. This role will serve as the strategic head of the Procurement team by establishing long-term and short-term objectives and strategies aligned with the company's mission and overall strategic goals related to growth, cost savings, supply continuity, and risk management. The Director of Procurement will develop and execute a strategic vision for Procurement across the company and will elevate Procurement's status by meeting and exceeding internal stakeholder expectations to earn the respect of senior leaders across the company.

The Director of Procurement will also be tasked with acting as a change agent, furthering the deployment of best-in-class procurement capabilities and governance structures where strategic sourcing is driven from a company-wide perspective. The Director of Procurement is expected to implement innovative improvements to Procurement procedures, processes and systems to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. Strong relationship building skills and the ability to interface at all levels of the enterprise will help this person successfully manage any resistance and work through the challenges common with rapid growth and organizational change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with executives to establish Procurement's strategies and objectives in both the long and short term
• Elevates Procurement's status and advocates on Procurement's behalf with RSS executive and business stakeholders
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with suppliers to consistently demonstrate value
• Communicates strategies, priorities, goals, challenges, and results to RSS's executives and stakeholders
• Leads RSS's strategic sourcing program that drives complex sourcing efforts and negotiates with the strategically crucial vendors
• Partners with team to create advanced category strategies that plan for strategic sourcing, value engineering, and demand management opportunities
• Implements, innovates and champions continuous improvement for Procurement procedures, processes, and systems
• Hires, retains, and works to develop talent to build a best-in-class Procurement organization
• Teams with Legal to enable negotiation of contracts in an efficient and effective manner. Deploy a method to collect contracts and document important criteria (such as contract expiration dates) for visibility.
• Identify opportunities to extract additional value/innovation from the supply base, evaluate, execute, and quantify results. Consider performance management and risk management approaches.
• Determine, present, and execute procure-to-pay strategy to enable efficient requisitioning, ordering, receipt, and payment operations. Assess current state of technology and determine how to maximize automation and other benefits of technological advancement. Partner with Finance to produce spend and savings visibility on at least an annual basis and optimize for working capital.
• Performs other duties as required by the role to ensure effective and efficient operation of the department

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Adaptive to fast paced, constantly changing environments
• A desire to grow professionally as the role's responsibility grows rapidly with the business
• Visionary mindset with defined strategic orientation
• Excellent communicator with strong persuasion and influencing skills
• Excellent relationship building, interpersonal, and influence skills
• Recognized as a change agent
• Entrepreneurial drive and perspective
• Expertise in strategic sourcing and leading multi-category sourcing teams
• Expertise in maximizing the value from supplier relationships
• Highly experienced in negotiating prices, complex terms and conditions, and incentives for major and/or global agreements
• Experience in both direct and indirect categories
• Robust analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong leadership and motivational skills, with ability to lead, manage, and develop personnel
• Flexible nature and comfortable leading organization and making decisions in the face of "gray areas"
• Demonstrated project management skills; results oriented
• Above average PowerPoint and Excel capabilities

Experience, Education and Designations:

• 10+ years of experience in Procurement, Business, Operations, Supply Chain Management, or Consulting
• Bachelor's degree is required, MBA is desired (but not required)
• Demonstrated top performance in prior role(s) with increasing levels of responsibility
• Demonstrated management capabilities, especially related to leading strategic initiatives, driving performance, leading change efforts, and producing superior results
• Demonstrated experience managing large and diverse teams and resources
• Track record of transforming procurement and supply chain strategy and operations, and/or leading the continuous improvement of strategic sourcing and category management programs
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, manage, develop, and retain top talent; a recognized leader and natural mentor