Director Sourcing and Procurement

Profile

Best Buy

We believe that our company’s success depends on the passion and creativity of our amazing employees. To create environments in which our people can fully thrive, we turn to our guiding behaviors: Be human. Make it real. Think about tomorrow.

These set the tone for Best Buy, along with our Rallying Cry: Let’s talk about what’s possible.

Our supportive leaders collaborate with their teams through ongoing feedback and two-way dialogue to maintain a culture continual learning. All these factors combine to create an unbeatable experience for both customers and employees. If you like to have fun while you work, build confidence and grow your career, you’ll fit right in.

*This position is remote eligible*

Best Buy Procurement has recently embarked on a transformational journey with the purpose of elevating value generation for the Enterprise. This will be achieved by optimizing the functional foundation (process, technology, capability), enabling operational efficiencies and reprioritizing effort to proactive, strategic activity. The new VP of Procurement is building an experienced leadership team responsible for executing the transformation. The Director will play a key role in this process by contributing to the overall strategy, including implementation, people development and change management.

The Director will also be responsible for developing and executing commercial category and sourcing strategies for critical to business spend areas, while leading a team of procurement professionals. This position will closely collaborate with senior functional business leaders across the organization.

What will you do?

Lead and develop world class Procurement category and sourcing strategies that enable enterprise-wide objectives while driving value creation:

Partner with leaders across enterprise to translate business objectives into effective strategies.

Leverage category expertise and market insights to proactively develop value generating programs for the business.

Engage leadership attributes to deliver continuous improvements and problem resolution while building and sustaining relationships with stakeholders, and vendors.

Establish stakeholder engagement strategy that delivers expected services against functional SLAs.

Identify and cultivate relationships with potential and credible suppliers that create long-term mutually beneficial value.

Drive consistency, transparency, alignment among all business teams, including global and outsourced partners (where applicable) to provide consistent, world class services to clients.

Functional Optimization

Identify and lead realization of commercial goals and functional objectives.

Monitor performance against key performance indicators.

Lead the exploration of new processes and capabilities for continued elevation of world class procurement capability.

Talent Management

Recruit and develop an engaged, diverse, highly skilled team.

Set clear effective goals and expectations as a key part of managing performance to drive business outcomes using existing performance management tools.

Minimum Requirements:

10 or more years strategic Sourcing and Category Management: strategy development, strategy execution including negotiation, contracting, and supplier performance management

Prior experience leading procurement transformation efforts including at least 2 of the following: organizational development, S2P technology implementation, operating framework development and optimization, stakeholder governance model creation and implementation

7 or more years of direct people management and development experience

7 or more years of experience collaborating with and influencing senior level stakeholders

7 or more years of demonstrated experience in building relationships with C-level executives, developing trust and influencing recommendations

Preferred Qualifications:

5 or more years of prior technology strategic sourcing experience

5 or more years of prior marketing strategic sourcing experience

5 or more years of experience with outsourced relationships

MBA or similar relevant experience preferred

Excellent analytical, quantitative, critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Ability to manage multiple complex projects and stakeholders from different functions, businesses, and backgrounds

Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)

Ability to work effectively and communicate complex ideas simply with people at all levels in an organization

Ability to thrive in a highly dynamic, time sensitive, and collaborative environment

High degree of comfort with ambiguity and white-space thinking

Comfort with agile ways of working, shifting focus and resources on key immediate priorities

Company info

Best Buy
Website : http://www.bestbuy.com