Director, Procurement - People Services

Job Summary
Are you an influential big picture problem solver who enjoys collaborating with Fortune 500 c-suite execs to drive business transformation? Do you have leadership experience delivering impactful top-line and bottom-line results across diverse indirect procurement categories such as Consulting, Financial Services, HR/Benefits, and other Professional Services? If yes, Goods Not For Resale Procurement (“GNFR”) at Walgreens Boots Alliance is looking for you.
Walgreens Boots Alliance GNFR Procurement has an immediate need for a Procurement Director, Professional Services. This role will be tasked with managing all things commercially impactful with key strategic external partners in the People Services (e.g., Benefits/HR, Business Process Outsourcing, Temporary Labor) area. This role leads a team of Procurement professionals who create and implement short- and long-term strategies aligning with the Company goals for reducing cost, driving innovation and implementing efficient high-quality service solutions. A successful candidate has a high standard and high workload capacity with the ability to translate complex business needs into clear insightful actions and to build the required relationships up and down the organization to deliver.
Job Responsibilities

• Plans, develops and implements business plans and budgets, including long-range objectives, performance goals and metrics for each category. Collaborates with Operations, Legal, Supply Chain and other customers as needed to champion cross-functional sourcing initiatives. Understands category specific (store and pharmacy operations) principles and value of analytics.
• Provides continuous leadership, oversight of work quality and constructive feedback to direct reports.
• Communicates Company, department and individual performance goals and levels of goal achievement.
• Recruits, hires and trains a qualified and talented team of employees.
• Supervises and approves the planning process with Category Managers in developing and recommending sourcing solutions, channels for distribution and execution of best practices for the assigned categories.
• Applies complex analytics to enable optimized cost savings and ensure an adequate supply chain.
• Creates collaborative business plans with strategic vendors and negotiates strategies and programs. Oversees that Category Managers develop and maintain positive vendor relationships. Approves Category Manager vendor contract negotiations, guaranteeing the attainment of the most advantageous pricing, terms, discounts, allowances, quality, delivery, service and dating (where applicable). Ensures all goods and services meet established standards. Addresses business unit complaints, requests, and questions and resolves within guidelines.
• Assures proper analysis and application of internal and external industry specific research information, to determine Company direction in designated categories, reasons for pricing increases/decreases, and develops risk mitigation strategies.
• Directly manages complex global negotiations with suppliers that require a detailed strategic plan and have a direct correlation with Walgreens operational needs goals.
• Manages the development of procedures to ensure goods and services are available to business units and maintain sufficient inventory levels and/or supply chain to support all events.
• Drives to execute divisional benefits and/or cost savings goals and targets. Assures the appropriate use of Corporate capital.
• Ensures positive vendor relationships are maintained; monitors supplier’s performance and holds supplier accountable for the adherence to Walgreen policies, procedures and appropriate service levels.
• Supports the talent development of inter-divisional team members and the overall development of cross-functional teams. Collaborates with analysts, associate category managers, and category managers.

About Walgreens and WBA
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170 year heritage of caring for communities. WBAs purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nations medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high quality products and services in communities nationwide.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits.
"An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans".
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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of experience in category management strategies for a retailer, wholesaler, or a services company.
• At least 7 years of experience applying strategic sourcing practices focused on meeting the business challenges and needs of the organization.
• At least 5 years’ experience developing and implementing requirements to execute strategic sourcing activities.
• Experience with business alignment and global sourcing.
• Experience in new business development of global partnerships.
• Leadership experience in synergizing global partnerships.
• Experience with conducting and guiding analysis for industry potential evaluation.
• Knowledge of the strategic sourcing, procurement lifecycle and procurement best practices and methods.
• Experience communicating both verbally (on phone, one-on-one, to groups) and in writing (emails, letters, reports, presentations) to various audiences (work group, team, company management, prospective acquisitions, external clients).
• Experience interacting with senior level executives.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Procurement expertise in Professional Services categories in excess of $50 million annually.
• Experience leading a Procurement organization in excess of 2 people.
• Experience in managing spend in excess of $500 million annually in total across multiple categories.
• Experience managing outsourced service providers.