Director, Procurement

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

Director of Procurement leads all global procurement efforts for the whole company. You will provide strategic and operational planning including identifying Procurement strategic and operational issues, and then able to drive respective solutions. The Director of Procurement is responsible for establishing processes, policies and procedures to efficiently and effectively enable spend owners such as business units and functional partners to maximize the value they receive from suppliers to meet their objectives.

Your day-to-day

• Development of organizational and operational procurement strategy
• Creation and management of short-, mid-, and long-term goals and objectives
• Creation and improvement of best-practice procurement processes, including but not limited to request for proposal processes, new vendor onboarding and vendor management.
• Identification and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities
• Management of procurement systems
• Management of procurement staff in (and across) sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, and miscellaneous internal procurement support activities
• Creating a talent management process in coordination with HR to ensure that the right resources are in place.
• Managing the skills and competency development of procurement staff, including training development and knowledge management capabilities
• Leadership of cross-functional teaming across other business functions and initiatives
• Development of benchmarks and scorecards, as well as key performance indicator reporting for senior management, to be used for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with the Finance organization to ensure the appropriate establishment, update, monitoring and execution of key controls to support the internal control environment.

What you bring to the team

• Working knowledge of finance and/or accounting in terms of budgeting, cost management, financial accounting, treasury, risk management, etc.
• Industry knowledge in terms of broad industry dynamics on the buy-side (and the sell-side), but also the internal knowledge and “language of the business”
• Excellent communication skills and even better listening skills that allow the Director of Procurement to get the “voice of the internal customer” and to understand the company culture and how to best communicate procurement’s value to it.
• Ability to “sell” procurement’s value and to run procurement as a services business like any other well-run professional services business.
• In-depth knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and best practices
• Strong negotiation skills to use for large commercial deals.
• Experience with modern sourcing and procurement systems
• Familiarity with relevant legislative and regulatory requirements, as well as understanding of standard contractual terms and conditions to mitigate legal risk.
• Strategic mindset and problem-solving skills
• Change management skills and self-awareness to take varying approaches with a dynamic set of stakeholders.

Education and Qualification:

• At least a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, economics, finance, operations, engineering, or a related area, with a master’s degree preferred.
• Senior supply management, operational management experience, or experience in the primary service delivery of the organization.
• Proven track record of delivering large savings and other value to large swaths of spending via a strong team of employees that the Director of Procurement manages and develops.
• Team player