Director, Global Procurement

Summary

Join Verra Mobility, a global leader in smart mobility, as a Procurement and Operations Manager. This role requires extensive experience in contract negotiation, operations management, and strategic leadership within a global supply chain. You will lead teams, manage contracts, optimize processes, and drive cost savings. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, interpersonal, and project management skills, along with deep ERP system knowledge. A minimum of 10+ years of procurement experience and 5+ years with a related degree and certification are required. Verra Mobility values a people-first philosophy and fosters a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of procurement, strategic purchasing, and sourcing with global experience
• 5+ years with a degree and certification in related field
• Strong interpersonal skills, Leadership qualities, project management, team building, managing remote teams
• Demonstrated experience in supplier performance management practices and cost management
• Proven experience conducting cost-benefit analysis, master service agreements and managing contract manufacturers
• Demonstrated team and project leadership
• Ability to work with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

• Provides team leadership as first point of contact with all suppliers by negotiating, reviewing, and managing contracts for the procurement of goods, various services, and capital equipment worldwide
• Ensure all supplier contracts meet legal and regulatory requirements and align with company policies thru effective negotiations with suppliers and in-house legal teams
• Manages all production planning, inventory control, purchasing, cost management and productivity activities related to purchased finished goods
• Develop, document and implement efficient processes focused on optimizing business operations and targeted at achieving strategic goals
• Develop and implement a data-management systems that aligns with functional areas and team responsibilities via individual and team metrics regarding health & performance of the organization
• Ability to set and achieve goals for team and suppliers based upon continuous improvement projects that provides annual cost savings back to the business
• Ability to operate in an environment of change, establish priorities, align team priorities and ensure optimal team performance
• Provide strategic leadership within a network of global suppliers focused on optimizing fulfillment, pricing, quality and business process to align with corporate & industry best practices
• Create and optimize purchasing strategies to align with corporate objectives; manage to defined budgets, forecasts, policies, service levels, and quality assurance targets
• Determine current and future business needs and translate these into global requirements with clear controls, documented process flows, and best-in-class quality standards
• Extensive experience in all aspects of vendor (goods and services) management, regarding pricing & product costing, metrics, delivery performance and quality management
• Develops and manages programs to optimize raw materials flow and inventory turns
• Regarded as an industry expert pertaining to ERP skills, understanding, training to best practices and optimization

Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of ERP management systems; Oracle, SAP, Great Plains, Service Now preferred