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Job Summary:
The Director of Procurement is a senior-level role charged with leading Sotera Health's International Procurement organization for all enterprise spend and proactively managing the company's annual spend base. This role serves as the senior strategic leader of the global Procurement team, with regular access and exposure to executives throughout the enterprise and across our divisions in order to advocate for procurement objectives and critical procurement-related activities. The Director of Procurement will develop and execute a strategic vision for Procurement across Sotera Health and will elevate Procurement's status by exceeding internal stakeholder expectations and earning the respect of senior leaders across all divisions.
The Director of Procurement serves as an integral partner with the leadership of all of Sotera Health's business units and ensures that procurement plans and initiatives are aligned with the company's ability to meet strategic goals related to growth, cost savings, and risk management. A successful candidate will have a deep customer service orientation and will be focused on delivering the best and highest value to Procurement's "customers" so that the organization is sought after as an internal partner.
The Director of Procurement will act as a change agent, leading Sotera Health's evolution in best practice procurement capabilities by implementing an operating model and governance structures where strategic sourcing is driven from an enterprise-wide perspective. Strong relationship skills and the ability to interface at all levels of the organization will help this person successfully manage resistance and work through the challenges common with organizational change.
Responsibilities
The Director of Procurement will oversee approximately $350MM of external spend (70/30) direct v. indirect) within the company's global platform.
Qualifications
EDUCATION:
EXPERIENCE:
CHARACTERISTICS:
About Us
The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company's unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®. Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year. Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 8 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies.
Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses - Sterigenics®, Nordion® and Nelson Labs®. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Learn more about Sotera Health at soterahealth.com.
About the Team
The Sotera Health parent company was established in 2017 and includes Corporate functions that support the business units and drive one-company capabilities with centralized expertise. We are a diverse and dedicated team that cares about global health, social responsibility, and the wellbeing of one another.
Safeguarding Global Health - United by Our Mission.
Job Summary:
The Director of Procurement is a senior-level role charged with leading Sotera Health's International Procurement organization for all enterprise spend and proactively managing the company's annual spend base. This role serves as the senior strategic leader of the global Procurement team, with regular access and exposure to executives throughout the enterprise and across our divisions in order to advocate for procurement objectives and critical procurement-related activities. The Director of Procurement will develop and execute a strategic vision for Procurement across Sotera Health and will elevate Procurement's status by exceeding internal stakeholder expectations and earning the respect of senior leaders across all divisions.
The Director of Procurement serves as an integral partner with the leadership of all of Sotera Health's business units and ensures that procurement plans and initiatives are aligned with the company's ability to meet strategic goals related to growth, cost savings, and risk management. A successful candidate will have a deep customer service orientation and will be focused on delivering the best and highest value to Procurement's "customers" so that the organization is sought after as an internal partner.
The Director of Procurement will act as a change agent, leading Sotera Health's evolution in best practice procurement capabilities by implementing an operating model and governance structures where strategic sourcing is driven from an enterprise-wide perspective. Strong relationship skills and the ability to interface at all levels of the organization will help this person successfully manage resistance and work through the challenges common with organizational change.
Responsibilities
The Director of Procurement will oversee approximately $350MM of external spend (70/30) direct v. indirect) within the company's global platform.
- Collaborating with leadership to establish both short-term and long-term Procurement strategies and objectives
- Evaluating Procurement's status and advocating on Procurement's behalf both with executive management and with departmental/divisional peers
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with business unit leadership and strategic supplier partners and actively seek to demonstrate value
- Communicating strategies, priorities, goals, challenges, and results to company executives and stakeholders
- Leading Sotera Health's enterprise strategic sourcing program and supporting complex sourcing efforts
- Innovating, championing, and implementing continuous improvement opportunities in Procurement processes, procedures, and systems, and governance structures
Qualifications
EDUCATION:
- Candidates must have their BS or BA, MBA desirable
- CPM, CPIM preferred
EXPERIENCE:
- 10+ years of experience in Business, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, or Consulting
- Demonstrated management capabilities, especially related to leading strategic initiatives, driving performance, leading change efforts, and producing superior results
- Recognized as a leader, who has recruited, trained, developed personnel, and lead successful teams
CHARACTERISTICS:
- A "spark in the eyes" team player, cooperative, unselfish, thinks corporately, not departmentally, who can work easily and synergistically with other functional departments.
- Ability to effectively interpret and communicate details, into concise and understandable facts, numbers, and actionable items.
- High level of intelligence manifested in rationality, common sense, deep conceptual thinking ability, critical and analytical thinking ability, wisdom from broad based knowledge and experience. Perceptive, visionary, good foresight, good intuition.
- Must be a change agent, initiate action, overcome obstacles, make progress and drive a process or project from start to finish alone or within a team to achieve acceptable results. Works with aggressiveness, tenacity, persistence, and intelligent forcefulness.
- Uncompromising integrity, moral values, and ethics. Honest, truthful, straight forward.
- Professional in appearance, demeanor, operating styles manifested in image, thoroughness, completeness, accuracy, polish, appropriateness, integrity, effectiveness. Performs at high standards.
- Ability to lead and manage multiple business models and priorities.
- The success candidate will demonstrate a flexible nature and be comfortable within the "gray areas" of the business.
About Us
The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company's unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®. Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year. Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 8 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies.
Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses - Sterigenics®, Nordion® and Nelson Labs®. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Learn more about Sotera Health at soterahealth.com.
About the Team
The Sotera Health parent company was established in 2017 and includes Corporate functions that support the business units and drive one-company capabilities with centralized expertise. We are a diverse and dedicated team that cares about global health, social responsibility, and the wellbeing of one another.
Safeguarding Global Health - United by Our Mission.
