Job Description:
Responsibilities
This highly important role is newly elevated and reporting to the head of finance for broad impact across the organization. With H&F’s recent investment, significant growth and effectiveness initiatives are being deployed. This individual will be a key part of the value creation plan.
Objectives:
- Drive positive impact to $300M in spend (and growing as Baker Tilly grows)
- Ensure current value targets are captured and continuously develop and excel at stretch targets year after year
- Be a trusted advisor to the business on all things supply / supplier related
- Create sustainable savings and risk safeguards
- Develop capabilities in, serve as a do-er, and lead the team to effectively drive strategic sourcing, including advanced RFPs and demand/specification optimization
- Develop category and sourcing strategies and advise management and requesting stakeholders in associated approaches and processes
- Negotiate contracts commercially and legally, with a balanced risk approach
- Be an expert across categories
- Develop structured approach to scale processes as corporation grows, including methodology for onboarding new company acquisitions
- Serve as key communicator and influencer within the corporation
- Engage, communicate, and collaborate with all relevant stakeholders of all levels, including the executive committee, the broader stakeholder base, your team, suppliers, etc.
- Leverage analytics and market intelligence to educate the organization in advanced procurement to earn support for the next level of value creation
- Build strong relationships with business unit leaders and executives to become a partner and trusted advisor, cementing the strategic value of Procurement within the organization
- Drive continuous maturation of Procurement
- Develop and execute a strong strategic vision for Procurement
- Challenge existing rules and status quo to further optimize projects and initiatives
- Act as a change agent, continuously evolving Procurement capabilities (e.g. spend visibility, category management, contract management, sustainability, supplier diversity) fit to Procurement’s maturity journey and company growth
- Team closely with FP&A to ensure controls and value tracking to the P&L
- Launch and manage effective procurement operating routines
- Proactively build and manage a hearty pipeline of procurement initiatives, and manage them through a cadence of pipeline meetings, steerco meetings, and other levels of governance
- Be responsible for a strong annual savings target and team with FP&A to ensure spending controls; co-develop and deploy reporting, decision trees, and validation process. Participate in the annual budget process.
- Hire and develop Procurement team members to support procurement objectives and become a destination for top talent within the organization
- Participate in the H&F Procurement Community including quarterly virtual forums and an in-person summit every 18 months
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required, Master's (MBA) preferred
- 8+ years of relevant working experience in procurement, preferably with at least some in IT (e.g. Software), and 4+ years of that in a leadership/managerial capacity
- Strong attention to detail and effective prioritization, while keeping the big picture in mind
- Ability to operate both strategically, tactically and operationally in a fast-paced environment; builds scalable systems & processes, rather than just addressing single issues
- Significant influence and communication skills
- Highly capable in project management and analytics
- Strong business acumen, including financial acumen
- Strong ability to lead and develop people
- Adaptable and flexible; comfortable with change and challenging status quo
- Knowledgeable in procurement technology and processes to enable procurement maturation
- Demonstrated management capabilities, especially related to leading strategic initiatives, driving performance, leading change efforts, and producing superior results
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