Americas Indirect Procurement Associate Director

Wella•New York, NY

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Together, Wella enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves. Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders. For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com. The Role The role of the Americas Indirect Procurement Associate Director is to create and drive the strategic interventions on the Business Services and Advertising and Consumer Promotions (A&CP) categories primarily for North America but also for Central & Latin Americas and Brazil. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the design and strategic choices in this area building upon existing strategies and experience in a region with a very ambitious growth agenda. Working closely with the Global Indirect Leader, Senior Director as well as the global category teams you will be leading the indirect procurement team based in North America and will be enabling the implementation of new strategies and capabilities for the Americas markets. You will engage with the Americas Leadership Team to review business needs and spend drivers, support strategic choices on suppliers, spend policies and define the external capabilities needed to deliver value and growth. You will work on simplification and consolidation of business partners to enable stronger supplier relationship management and better capability to support the business. Today the Indirect Categories in the Americas represent a spend of approximately 200Million US$. You are responsible for establishing and leading the procurement team based in Americas. You will be driving strategy, savings initiatives and business plans with discipline to deliver the business growth plans as well as the fiscal year objectives and longer term interventions in the 3-5year horizon. You will create savings and spend insights to support better value delivery, good policy and spend better decisions. You will work to ensure transparency and governance of spend processes and policies globally, sharing findings, savings and enabling new best practices. Wella is committed to improving our Ethical and environmental footprint so you will be expected to work towards this important objective with our external business partners. You will ensure appropriate support and alignment with regional and local teams, R&D, Operations, Marketing and Finance in the implementation and execution of the strategy and projects. In all your activities you are acting as a commercial expert to ensure best value and strong stewardship of the company’s money to deliver best value. This is an exciting moment to join this team and lead this diverse and important spend segment, in one of the major regions for the Business with an ambitious growth plan.

Requirements

Experience in Procurement, ideally in advertising and consumer promotion or business services spend areas, at least 8-12 years
Degree qualified preferably in Business, Manufacturing, Engineering or other relevant discipline. MBA is a plus
Work experience in an international environment and matrix organizations
Capable and proven track record of stakeholder management including business Leaders (internal and external)
Experience developing and managing organizations
Excellent analytical skills, negotiation skills, strategic thinking and collaboration skills.
High level of reliability, personal integrity, autonomy and ownership.
Strategic, structured, pro-active and solution-oriented way of working.
You are business driven, pragmatic and results-oriented.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Strong ability to communicate complex topics in concise terms to various stakeholders including C-Suite.
High degree of fluency in written and spoken English is required, German is an asset
Results oriented individual with solid proven track record in delivering value (cost and cash) and improving effectiveness of sourcing networks
Strategic thinking balanced with ability to execute
Team leader with ability to inspire, coach and develop both local and remote reports
Proven Collaboration, Influencing, Negotiation, Communication skills
Knowledge in executing sourcing of indirect and/or marketing
Ability to detect risk areas and red flags.
Knowledge of e-sourcing tools
Able to travel in support of business (0-20%)

Nice To Haves

Degree qualified preferably in Business, Manufacturing, Engineering or other relevant discipline. MBA is a plus
High degree of fluency in written and spoken English is required, German is an asset

Responsibilities

In close collaboration with the Global Category team, design/refine and implement new sourcing strategies and strategic interventions across indirect spend.
Engage efficiently and structure the governance with each Market Leadership team to ensure early engagement and strategic alignment.
Establish the procurement as an unavoidable business partner and advisor
Develop and ensure On-Time and In-Full execution of Indirect Procurement roadmaps for each Market in scope.
Provide commercial leadership and lead preferred supplier selection process for key initiatives, leveraging robust knowledge of tender management.
Implement Supplier Relation Management program and drive Year on Year improvement in quality, service, talent and value
Enable the use of new tools to make sourcing simpler and more efficient
Support business plan to improve ethical and environmental sourcing
Implement governance and control including contractual agreements and policies
Lead Indirect Procurement Team in Americas
Establish structured governance and engagement with Global Category Teams
Develop individuals’ capabilities and manage team to deliver maximum efficiency and value to business
Engage and influence stakeholders in Category Strategy definition and implementation
Ensure the ongoing training and development of self and team in procurement best practices and skills