Global Capital Purchasing and Operations Leader

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Global Capital Purchasing and Operations Leader

About the job:

Nouryon’s Houston, TX location is looking for top candidates to fill the key role of Global Capital Purchasing and Operations Leader. This position is essential to:

• Provide leadership, mentorship and coaching for the Global Capital Procurement Team.
• Serve as the owner of work process development, documentation, and review across the Indirects Procurement Team, inclusive of Global/Regional Category Management, Capital and the India Source-to-Contract (S2C) teams.

In your future role as a Global Capital Purchasing and Operations Leader, you will:

• Provide global leadership engagement with key Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Manufacturing stakeholders related to the planning, sourcing and execution of global capital projects.
• Coordinate the global leveraging of best practices and work process discipline for capital sourcing work processes.
• Coordinate the global leveraging of best practices and work process discipline between key Indirects sub-teams, including Global/Regional Category Management (Category Managers and Specialists), CapEx Procurement Management and the India S2C team.
• Provide global leadership engagement with strategic suppliers critical to the execution of capital projects to enable continued supplier relationship and capability development.
• Work with key ISC Manufacturing leadership stakeholders to identify and deliver continuous improvements.
• Lead the team in the delivery of procurement-related value delivery metrics, ensuring results are tracked via appropriate systems.
• Drive working capital improvement within capital contract awarding and execution.
• Support implementation of identified work process changes.
• The development and implementation of effective sourcing and contracting strategies for Global Capital Projects.
• The development and implementation of efficient work processes across the Indirects Procurement Team.
• Estimating risks and apply risk minimizing techniques.
• Identifying best practices and industry benchmarks.
• Developing and maintaining in-depth market knowledge within areas of responsibility.
• Researching and anticipating shifts in the negotiation power of suppliers.
• Developing the organization to identify improvement areas, explore cost reduction opportunities and establish a total cost of ownership approach internally and with external suppliers.
• Actively working to improve commercial terms with suppliers, identifying ways to support minimize spending and reduce cost to support the company’s financial objectives.
• Actively working with key stakeholders in the businesses and ISC including manufacturing, engineering, and also finance and other functions to build alignment around targets and establish common execution plans to support business growth and profitability improvement.
• Representing Nouryon; building and maintaining a network of business contacts in support of organizational objectives; conducting business in a responsible and ethical manner.
• The development and implementation of sourcing strategies for product and services designed to support the identified business needs and in line with the Global Procurement strategy.
• Collaboration with Nouryon’s India Service Center in support of Tail Spend (Low Spend) sourcing automation to ensure robust procurement support to Nouryon’s Manufacturing Sites.
• Travel: 10%

We Believe You Bring:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in procurement and/or capital project execution roles.
• University bachelor’s or master’s degree level, preferably in Business Administration, Engineering, Logistics, Supply chain.
• Good understanding of the Supply Chain and Manufacturing functions: strategy, processes, systems and organization.
• Experience (direct / indirect) working with Competitive Cost Country (CCC) Sourcing Teams.
• Change management: managing improvement programs with diverse teams as well as the cultural aspects of the change to be delivered.
• Strong Project management experience with lean management methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma.
• Experience in Sourcing including Strategic Sourcing Methodology and contract management.
• Experience in either direct or indirect global leadership.

Good to know:
 

This is a permanent position on a full-time basis, reporting to the Vice President, Indirect Procurement, based in Houston, TX.   

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/  

We look forward to receiving your application! 

We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors.  
  

About Nouryon:

We’re looking for tomorrow’s Changemakers, today. 

If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team of Changemakers in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment. 

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Nouryon is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.