Indirect Procurement Manager

Bio-Rad Laboratories•Hercules, CA

17h•Onsite

About The Position

In this role as an Indirect Procurement Manager for our Bio-Rad Hercules, CA location, you will lead a group of commodity specialists spanning across the Americas region with multiple sites within the region. You will oversee the team that serves as the primary purchasing representatives at each manufacturing site and will handle escalation of issues with suppliers. You will manage workload and provide coaching to the team for both strategic and transactional tasks. You will manage stakeholder engagement and partnerships, implement value improvement opportunities, and participate in meetings and discussions with procurement leadership regarding team activities, policy and procedure improvements. You will implement Global strategies at the Regional level to increase supplier performance, capability development, capacity management, and cost/quality improvements for supply chain vendors. You will manage escalated supplier reviews and deliver supplier performance and metrics to upper-level management. You will develop supply chain risk mitigation plans and monitor the performance of individual team members, providing feedback. You will be responsible for ensuring the function is appropriately staffed to deliver business expectations and implement Continuous Improvement activities as defined to improve efficiency in the procurement process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance or related field.
10+ years’ experience in purchasing/commodity goods management.
10 + years of purchasing or procurement experience.
5+ years of leading or managing a sourcing team required.
2+ years experience creating procurement Strategy.
Experience with/knowledge of direct materials used in production within the Americas Region.
Negotiation skills required.
Cross-functional team leadership and high performing work team skills.
Solid knowledge of financial principles related to budgeting, make vs buy analysis and Gross margin impact.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Masters preferred.
certification a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Commodity Specialists.
Manage workload and provide coaching to the team for both strategic and transactional tasks.
Manages stakeholder engagement and partnerships.
Implements value improvement opportunities.
Participates in meetings and discussions with procurement leadership regarding team activities, policy and procedure improvements.
Implements Global strategies at Regional level to increase supplier performance, capability development, capacity management and cost/quality improvements for supply chain vendors.
Manages escalated supplier reviews and delivers supplier performance and metrics to upper level management.
Develops supply chain risk mitigation plans.
Monitors performance of individual team members, provides feedback.
Responsible for ensuring the function is appropriately staffed to deliver business expectations.
Implement Continuous Improvement activities as defined to improve efficiency in the procurement process.
Manages procurement functions including Sourcing, supplier selection and qualification, supplier management.
Manages procurement team to ensure effective delivery of objectives.
Participates in Supplier AVL development, supplier compliance tracking, supplier business continuity and contract spend management.
Proactively partner with Business stakeholders to identify cost saving opportunities and supplier consolidation.
Develop commodity and subcommodity strategic plan, analyze supply base and recommend forward procurement supplier list.
Coordinate global sourcing efforts when needed and consolidate global savings reports.