Vice President, North America Procurement

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The Vice President, North America Procurement is responsible for creating enterprise value across multiple business units in Canada and the United States through strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, productivity delivery, supply assurance, risk management, working capital improvement, and organizational leadership. Reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer for Grupo Bimbo, this role leads a geographically dispersed organization of more than 60 associates across Canada, the United States, and Costa Rica (service centre), including a direct team to lead of Directors and Managers responsible for direct materials, packaging, indirect, commodity risk management, supplier relationships, and enterprise procurement initiatives.

The role is accountable for ensuring procurement remains deeply embedded within the businesses it supports, delivering measurable business outcomes while balancing the unique priorities and objectives of multiple independent business units. The successful candidate will continue the evolution of a high-performing procurement organization, building upon a strong reputation for business partnership, talent development, productivity delivery, and operational excellence.

• Enterprise Value Creation:
  Lead the development and execution of procurement strategies that create measurable enterprise value across business units in Canada and the United States.
• Procurement Leadership:
  Provide strategic leadership for North America Procurement, including direct materials, packaging, and enterprise-wide procurement initiatives.
• Supply Assurance and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Ensure continuity of supply across all critical materials and services required to support business operations.
• Working Capital and Financial Performance:
  Partner with Finance and business unit leadership teams to improve working capital performance and cash flow.
• Business Partnership:
  Serve as a trusted advisor to business unit leadership teams across Canada and the United States.
• Transformation and Continuous Improvement:
  Continue the transformation journey of the Procurement organization by advancing capabilities, processes, governance, analytics, and ways of working.
• Talent and Organizational Leadership:
  Lead, develop, and inspire a geographically dispersed team of leaders and procurement professionals.

• Delivery of annual productivity commitments.
• Supply continuity and risk mitigation performance.
• Working capital improvement.
• Strength and quality of business partnerships.
• Talent retention, engagement, and succession development.
• Advancement of procurement transformation initiatives.
• Organizational capability development.
• Effective resource allocation across multiple business units and priorities.

• Collaborative :
  Builds strong partnerships and creates alignment across functions and businesses.
• Curious :
  Continuously seeks opportunities to improve…