Purpose
The Site Procurement Lead is responsible for managing the entire procurement process, from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring detailed execution aligned with category strategic vision. This role focuses on overseeing supplier selection and management, maintaining compliance with procurement policies, and executing tactical processes for supplier diversity and sustainability. This role will report directly into the Procurement Regional Lead with a dotted line to the Site Director. Relevant manufacturing experience and depth, along with previous exposure to a fast-paced, highly regulated manufacturing environment is crucial for this role. 

NOTE: This role will be onsite 5 days a week at our Branchburg, New Jersey site 

Responsibilities

• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching and development, and evaluating individual and team performance.
• Proactively engage and foster a collaborative culture with business partners. 
• Manage activities from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring effective and detailed execution, including alignment with defined category strategic vision.
• Drive performance improvements and oversee performance management, fostering a collaborative culture with stakeholders and site members. 
• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and fulfills business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.
• Drive supplier management and ensures alignment to SRM strategy as determined by Procurement Lead and Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.
• Implement risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, owning the implementation of strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
• Enable savings and assurance of supply, manage savings leakage across downstream procurement processes
• Administer continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.
• Partner with other Procurement leaders and business partners as needed to define skillsets, workforce requirements, capability needs, and long-term organizational staffing goals.