Sr Director, Procurement NPK Loveland, CO

Pay Band: G Nutrien; Calgary; On-site; CAD 177,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agriculture company is seeking a global procurement leader in Calgary, Alberta. This role involves managing a high-performing Procurement team to set strategic vision and optimize procurement operations across multiple regions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in procurement, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of driving savings across diverse categories. Competitive compensation, along with a comprehensive benefits package, is offered.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance and disability coverage

Retirement program with employer contribution

Paid vacation and personal days

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience, including at least 10 years of progressive leadership experience.
• 10 years of dedicated procurement experience with a track record of delivering savings.
• Leadership capabilities and experience in managing a large procurement organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a Procurement team.
• Set up Procurement Strategy and Planning.
• Recommend and decide an integrated strategic plan for the group procurement organization.
• Support cross-collaboration among different Procurement teams.
• Ensure procurement functions are meeting site needs.

Skills

Category Management

Purchasing

Sourcing

Procurement

Financial Acumen

Contract Management

Supplier Management

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering or related field

Job description

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose Feeding the Future is the reason we come to work each day. We’re guided by our culture of care and our core values: safety, inclusion, integrity, and results. When we say we care we mean it. We’re creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe, has a sense of belonging, trusts one another and acts with integrity.

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26,000 employees we operate a world‑class network of production, distribution and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers’ needs and strive to provide a more profitable, sustainable and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

This position has overall responsibility on a global level for sourcing strategy execution and process in support of the Nitrogen, Phosphate & Potash (NPK) procurement operations, inventory and warehousing contractor performance, material cost savings and supplier risk management strategy. It provides overall responsibility on a global level for the Procurement function and associated programs and serves as a personal business‑to‑business connection to top strategic stakeholders and suppliers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end performance of the procurement operations function including critical teams and enablers such as Shared Buying, Turnaround Procurement, Capital Procurement, and Warehousing & Inventory Optimization. They will have managed a large procurement budget and organization demonstrating strategy formulation and execution abilities. The ability to identify, develop and promote talent across a large organization is critical. The leader will have responsibility across various sites and Business Units (BU) in the US, Canada and Trinidad and will be responsible for delivering on the NPK Strategic Procurement long‑term planning and annual priorities as part of BU goals and objectives.

What Youll Do:

• Lead, manage and develop a Procurement team.
  • Build the right procurement team (recruitment, training, staffing and retention).
  • Decide individual annual professional development plans with skills plans and performance targets.
  • Regularly review progress and customer feedback and monitor KPIs with procurement directors on procurement sourcing categories, projects and functions.
• Set up Procurement Strategy and Planning.
  • Development and communication of global strategic vision.
  • Management of long-term partnerships with key strategic suppliers based on quality, cost, service delivery and responsiveness.
  • Establish and maintain clarity of responsibilities within decision processes.
  • Provide leadership direction and support to the procurement team.
• Recommend and decide an integrated strategic plan for the group procurement organization.
  • Approve targets for spend reduction (pricing, TCO and usage control), purchasing efficiency, customer/site service and vendor management.
  • Prioritize and recommend resource levels across procurement sourcing categories, projects and functions.
• Support cross-collaboration among different Procurement teams (Category Management, Site Procurement, and Capital Procurement).
  • Ensure that there is close collaboration and ways of working across Procurement teams to deliver end-to-end category strategy from the center to the sites.
  • Enable integrated Capex and Opex category strategies and execution between Category Management and Capital teams.
  • Help emerge the cross-site opportunities to the right level of the organization category management team to ensure cross-site and Nutrien purchasing leverage.
  • Coordinate the rollout of the new operating model and ensure that the right skills are in place in the organization.
• Ensure procurement functions are meeting site needs (standards, tools, knowledge management).
  • Ensure that decision‑making processes are in place and used.
  • Review and approve procurement budgets and performance targets to ensure a highly efficient and effective procurement organization.

What Youll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering or related field.
• 15 years of relevant experience, including at least 10 years of progressive leadership experience.
• 10 years of dedicated procurement experience and track record of delivering savings.
• Successfully driven procurement across multiple categories, demonstrating leadership and influencing skills across multiple regions, functions and with business leaders. Ideally the executive will have broader commercial or P&L experience.
• Demonstrated capability to take on increasing responsibilities quickly as demonstrated by a steep career path.
• Leadership capabilities and experience in leading and managing a large procurement organization.
• Significant experience in strategic planning, resource allocation/prioritization, target setting and budgeting.
• Awareness of cost drivers across multiple classes of cost categories.
• Negotiating techniques.
• Although not required, a graduate degree (MBA or similar) would be an asset.

The salary range for this role in Loveland, CO is between $177,600 and $304,400. While we provide this range as general guidance, several factors are taken into consideration when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to candidate skill set, experience, training, licensure, certifications, work location and other business and organizational needs. Actual salary and benefits may differ based on location.

We provide an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage and life insurance, as well as disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per day. In addition we have a retirement program that encourages our employees to save for the longer term with generous matching employer contributions. Our benefit package also demonstrates our culture of care with paid vacation, sick days, holidays, paid personal and maternity/parental leaves, and an Employee and Family Assistance Program. Details of the benefits package will be shared in the application process.

In addition to base pay this role is also eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan and long‑term incentive plan consistent with the terms of our program(s), where discretionary payout of awards is reflecting components such as performance of the company and the employee. Details will be discussed through the application process.

This information is provided in compliance with applicable state equal pay and pay equity legislation and represents the company’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location and other job‑related reasons. Nutrien also makes internal equity a consideration in all pay decisions.

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Required Experience: Exec

Key Skills

• Category Management
• Purchasing
• Sourcing
• Procurement
• Financial Acumen
• HR Sourcing
• Procurement Management
• Contract Management
• Supplier Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Negotiation
• Contracts

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Monthly Salary: 177,600 - 304,400