Senior Director, Indirect Procurement- D&L

Senior Director, Indirect Procurement- D&L

Nashville, Tennessee

Logic Source is an innovative leader in sourcing and procurement services, helping companies increase profits through better buying. Operated by a 500-person collective of procurement professionals, we are deeply rooted in data and insight-driven strategic sourcing, category management, operational excellence, and value delivery. Partnering with Fortune 500 companies, we build and nurture strategic relationships while delivering strong execution that drives measurable bottom-line impact and the development of best-in-class procurement capabilities.

Reasons why you'll love it here:

• A collaborative, supportive culture where your contributions are valued, and your work makes a meaningful impact.
• A workplace committed to professional growth with paths to development and advancement.
• Dedicated to creating an environment for employee success by providing support for long-term career growth.
• Committed to work-life balance by offering flexible PTO.
• A robust benefits package that includes extensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family. HRA, a 401(k) match, Healthcare and Dependent Care FSAs, short- and long-term disability coverage, AD&D, life insurance, fertility assistance, and more.
• Supplemental benefits such as unexpected large expenses related to Accidents, Hospitalization, or Critical Care. Along with support for Maternity/Paternity, FMLA, and Military leave.
• Offer behavioral health services within the medical support insurance plan and everyday support tools to help with mental health.
• A business-casual workplace offering a flexible, hybrid work environment with offices in Westport, CT, and Charleston, SC.

Position Summary:

We have an immediate opening for a full-time Senior Director, Category Management
- Distribution & Logistics in Nashville, TN supporting our Client, a major national retailer. As a key member of our Client Services team, you will be responsible for leading and managing varying engagements within our client's distribution and logistics Spend, in areas such as Retail 3PL,TL, LTL, Ocean, Air, and warehousing. This position would report directly to the Managing Director, Sourcing and Procurement.

Responsibilities:

• Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance
• Manage spend, supplier, and market data from client and Logic Source resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts
• Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards
• Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories
• Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend.
• Leverages Logic Source's Center of Excellence (COE) category experts through the sourcing process to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities
• Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations
• Onboard new suppliers
• Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding e-procurement catalogs
• Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations
• Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling. Create procurement playbook as it relates to cyclical spending.
• Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier
• Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price / savings baseline analysis
• Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals ate alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation.
• Support necessary negotiations. Apply both experience and the application of Logic Source's sourcing methodology, ensuring…