Director, Global Procurement - UCC Unit

BD; Covington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BD in Covington, GA is seeking a senior procurement leader to design and drive strategic sourcing across direct and indirect spends, ensuring cost, quality and service targets are met. You’ll lead category teams, govern supplier relationships, and align sourcing with business strategy.

You’ll partner with procurement COEs and business stakeholders to shape global category strategies, implement end-to-end procure-to-pay improvements, educate customers on processes, and help BD continue to

Responsibilities

• Functional leadership with the business ensuring procurement strategy is developed and aligned with business needs with governance across direct and indirect spends.
• Accountable for cost, quality, service levels relative to the supply base into the business, directly manages unique spend and suppliers for the business while leveraging scale for suppliers and areas of spend which cut across BD.
• Partners with a wide range of procurement COEs (category, supplier, procurement excellence teams) and associates to bring together a comprehensive procurement perspective for the business and helps shape the business world-wide strategy.
• Ensures business needs and key strategies are integrated into category spend and that there is a clear value proposition for the assigned business to implement sourcing strategies.
• Works with other procurement associates to encourage consensus among various stakeholder groups and achieve objectives. Identifies gaps and proposes changes to close gaps related to supplier or process issues.
• Contributes to overall global procurement functional strategy and procure to pay process improvements - end to end oversight for source to pay within the business.
• Educates internal / external customers on various technical and procurement process issues.
• Leads the creation and development of New Product (GPDS) sourcing strategies and collaborates end to end across the ISC for seamless integration and execution.

Job description

BD in Covington, GA is seeking a senior procurement leader to design and drive strategic sourcing across direct and indirect spends, ensuring cost, quality and service targets are met. You’ll lead category teams, govern supplier relationships, and align sourcing with business strategy.

You’ll partner with procurement COEs and business stakeholders to shape global category strategies, implement end-to-end procure-to-pay improvements, educate customers on processes, and help BD continue to