Director, Strategic Procurement

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* Location:

** Secaucus, New Jersey## ##
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* Job Summary:

** The Director of Strategic Procurement at The Children's Place is responsible for leading strategic sourcing initiatives, collaboratively developing and implementing strategies to optimize the company’s non-merchandise spend and supporting the company's on-going profit improvement efforts.
The Director leads a small Strategic Procurement team that is responsible for around $400M spend ranging from supply chain, marketing, IT, stores, and professional services.

• Provides leadership to influence and strategically source of all non-merchandise spend.

• Leads strategic sourcing efforts, develops talent, leverages technology, and drives new value.

• Develops pipeline of projects, builds relationships with key executives/ spend owners, leads sourcing team, and runs complex strategic sourcing projects.

• Is responsible for conducting spend analysis, analyzing supply markets, identifying sourcing value levers, executing competitive RFIs/RFPs and leading supplier negotiations.##
** Responsibilities:
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* Key Accountabilities:

*** Designs and develops a value initiative pipeline to optimize around $400M of non-merchandise spend to yield aggressive savings.
* Prioritizes sourcing efforts, develops baseline spend, and manages sequential sourcing waves.
* Works with business teams to sponsor initiatives, and agree on business goals and key requirements.
* Builds strong relationships with business teams and key stakeholders, removes obstacles for sourcing teams, and works with Finance and business teams to ensure negotiated savings are realized.
* Collaborates with the business to ensure clarity of specifications and requirements.
* Leads strategic sourcing initiatives, following a 7-step spend management methodology. Ensures process excellence, and frames strategic issues and supply options.
* Conducts successful supplier negotiations focused on total cost and ensures all business terms are clearly outlined in supplier agreements.
* Develops implementation and transition plans and supports change management initiatives.
* Manages complex sourcing and demand management initiatives.
* Ensures teams understand supply markets and develop innovative supply solutions.
* Develops strong supplier partnership and development programs. Conducts quarterly business reviews, measures performance through scorecards, and ensures new value is created year-over-year.
* Ensures integrity of savings tracking and reporting efforts.
* Hires, develops, and coaches Strategic Procurement team.
* Establishes and creates department training and development programs.
* Works with business teams to demonstrate strategic value of Strategic Procurement team, and ensures strong sponsorship and participation from cross-functional teams.
* Develops, communicates, and actively manages Strategic Procurement goals and strategies with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
* Ensures integrity of work done, following vision, mission, and values.
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* Education and Experience:

*** Proven ability to develop and lead complex strategic sourcing strategies and initiatives.
* Proven ability to lead high-performance teams and build strong and lasting partnerships.
* Strategic and innovative thinker who can develop and implement new business models and keep pace with changing marketplace.
* Strong team player, with the innate ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships.
* Proven ability to attract, lead, and develop people.
* Track record of managing complex sourcing and demand management efforts.
* Effective negotiator with strong business acumen and project management skills.
* Excellent communication (both verbal and written), and facilitation skills.
* Deep knowledge of financial accounting, strategic sourcing, and supplier management concepts.
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
* Ability to develop relationships with key Business Partners
* Experience sourcing a variety of categories, including the following:  + Marketing (digital media, agency, production, and creative)  + IT (Hardware, Software, Software-As-Service, E-Commerce, Cloud Services)  + Supply Chain…