Director - Procurement & Product, Value Transformation Office
About The Position
Clorox is undergoing a margin transformation to address significant inflationary pressures. The Value Transformation Office (VTO) has been established to create and manage a pipeline of actionable initiatives to achieve the company's margin improvement targets. The VTO's vision is to drive enterprise-wide margin improvement through a sustainable pipeline, systematic approach, and rigorous value management. Key objectives include amplifying and accelerating margin objectives, acting as a control tower for program delivery and risks, driving best practices for margin expansion, and facilitating the identification of cross-business unit and enterprise initiatives. This role will focus on identifying margin enhancements across the value chain, with a particular emphasis on procurement, design-to-value, and portfolio optimization. The scope covers full Gross Margin, including cost savings and revenue growth management. The position reports to the Senior Director of Cost Transformation and is part of the cost savings leadership team, collaborating with executive leadership, business unit general managers, and functional leaders to drive margin transformation across Clorox.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience focused on business transformation; delivering complex, cross-functional programs
- Experience in effective ideation, facilitation, brainstorming, and business case development
- Experience in supply chain operations, but with particular emphasis on procurement
- Experience in managing others and creating personal development plans
- Strong coaching and people development skills
- Strong facilitation, ideation, and coordination skills; ability to drive forward new ways of thinking and solicit input from a diverse set of stakeholders
- Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and/or solutions to multiple organizational levels, in a highly cross-functional organization, internally and externally as needed
- Strong process orientation and a solid understanding of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices
- Strong ability to collaborate & influence across a range of functions / teams / levels
- Experience in diagnosing, isolating, resolving, and documenting complex issues and recommendations
- Demonstrated strategic ability to solve complex global cross-functional issues, exercising critical thinking and sound judgment
- Self-starter with strong results orientation, able to drive progress in an ambiguous environment, and track record of hitting and exceeding targets
- Proven leadership and people development skills of a substantial team of diverse individuals
- Takes an enterprise view that considers and anticipates implications across multiple global stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Experience in consumer packaged goods or consumer industries is a plus, but not required
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate procurement and product margin transformation program and ideation to fill a 3-year margin transformation pipeline
- Document and prioritize opportunities, facilitating the development of detailed business case analyses that provide full visibility into margin potential
- Evaluate interdependencies across initiatives and escalate risks to the executive team and workstream leads as necessary
- Track margin improvement program value realization; escalate risk and mitigations related to financials
- Partner with senior leadership in establishing procurement targets and multi-year margin improvement strategies
- Drive coordination of margin improvement efforts across the enterprise and proactive cross-functional action planning for risks, mitigations, and dependencies
- Partner with Strategic Business Unit and Functional leaders to enable execution of margin improvement targets and share joint accountability for their delivery
- Support the creation of executive updates (e.g., senior executive committee, Board updates) and develop meeting materials (including consolidation of materials from Business Unit and working teams)
- Support the development of communications and education in support of Value Transformation Office objectives across the enterprise
- Strategic enterprise margin improvement enablement
- Lead in advancing overall margin enhancement capability development
- Lead in the development of tools and best practices across the VTO; create, document, and enforce VTO governance model
- Provide coaching and professional development support to direct reports within VTO
- Lead in the development of processes, techniques, and playbooks to advance margin improvement ideation and identification
- Facilitate best practice sharing across business units and functions to enable value creation
- Serve as a challenge partner for senior leadership; influence stakeholders at the vice president level
- Maximize efficient and effective use of resources, knowing how and when to leverage external partners, internal technical and functional resources, and BU expertise
Benefits
- Robust health plans
- Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
- Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
- Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits
- Participation in Clorox’s incentive plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
