Director, Global Sourcing & Center of Excellence

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This position is located in the Irvine, California corporate headquarters.

The Director, Global Sourcing & Center of Excellence will lead a talented team in strategic sourcing working closely with cross-functional teams, senior management, and key stakeholders to deliver value and support the organization's strategic goals. Aligns strategic sourcing with companywide global objectives, identifying and utilizing best in class tools, data analytics, supplier diversity to drive better use of resources to optimize the overall procurement process.

Your role:

• Partner closely with internal stakeholders and the leadership team to develop, engage and lead supplier relationships that drive the greatest value in total cost effectiveness, supplier quality, enhanced service levels, risk management, sustainability, supplier diversity, and innovation.
• Develop and execute global category strategies and plans that optimize a supply base that delivers against our overall requirements at best value pricing. Segment suppliers (e.g. strategic, collaborative, and transactional) and develop strategies and plans to drive improved value with suppliers in each segment.  Leverage category and supplier trends to proactively address potential issues and take advantage of potential opportunities.
• Execute sourcing initiatives and negotiate best-in-class strategic agreements for total costs, payment terms, service level agreement, and other key terms through the use of should-cost models, RFPs, category/supplier insights, benchmarking, advanced analytics, and eSourcing tools.  
• Drive continued cost savings through identifying, assessing, developing business cases, prioritizing initiatives, and executing initiatives focused on reducing the total cost of ownership.
• Manage the ongoing performance of our suppliers to achieve best-in-class results including setting objectives and service level agreements (SLAs), tracking and reporting KPI performance, supplier scorecards, and prioritizing and leading joint improvement efforts.
• Partner with 3rd party subject matter experts to leverage functional and category benchmarking and best practices to understand industry category trends, as well as drive improved results, processes, standard practices, analytics, and tools.   
• Proactively monitor and manage supply risk to ensure continuity of supply or service.
• Leverage market/commodity insights, inflation mitigation techniques, cost escalation/de-escalation agreements, etc. to forecast and secure market competitive pricing.
• Engage supplier innovation capabilities to identify and deliver improved products and service offerings.

• Create a Center of Excellence to enable the Global Sourcing team to achieve key best-in-class results though developing and implementing best practice standards in Global Sourcing processes, systems/tools, data, analytics, and reporting. 
• Develop and implement best practice processes across the Global Sourcing team for key processes such as strategic sourcing, category strategy development, supplier performance management, supplier contract development, cost savings tracking, project tracking and updates, business case development, etc.  Work to standardize the processes across all Global Sourcing categories and with stakeholders globally.  Leverage AI, robotics, and other techniques to automate key processes where possible.
• Develop plans to fully leverage existing systems and tools that provide the Global Sourcing team key global data/information, analytical systems/tools, and advance analytics capabilities to track performance, track compliance to supplier agreements, support initiatives, and proactively assess issues and opportunities.  Evaluate, secure approval, and implement new and/or