Associate Director Global Procurement

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What you’ll be doing...

As an Associate Director within our Global Procurement Organisation, you will play a key leadership role in delivering a high-quality procurement experience for our internal stakeholders whilst helping to shape the continued transformation of our procurement operations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and leading your leadership team, setting clear expectations, building capability, coaching supervisors, and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Owning operational performance, establishing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs), service levels, volumes, backlogs, and quality measures, and taking proactive action where performance is not meeting expectations.

• Acting as a senior escalation point for complex procurement issues, working across Procurement, Sourcing, Finance, Accounts Payable, business stakeholders, and other partner organisations to drive issues through to resolution.

• Driving automation and digital transformation initiatives across the Helpdesk and broader Procurement organisation, identifying opportunities to eliminate manual activity, simplify processes, and improve the employee experience through automation, AI, and other emerging technologies.

• Partnering with the Senior Director on thought leadership and strategic priorities, bringing forward ideas, insights, and recommendations that help shape the future direction of the Global Procurement organisation.

• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business, acting as a trusted procurement partner and ensuring stakeholder feedback is incorporated into operational and transformation priorities.

• Maintaining strong governance and operational controls, ensuring procurement activities are performed in accordance with company policies, controls, and compliance requirements.

What we’re looking for...

We’re looking for a highly motivated and inspiring leader who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and brings energy, optimism, and a strong sense of ownership to everything they do.

You will be a highly visible leader within the Global Procurement organisation, helping us navigate change whilst building an engaged, collaborative, and high-performing culture. We are looking for someone who embraces challenges and views them as opportunities to improve, remains solutions-focused when faced with obstacles, and brings a proactive, can-do mindset to both your team and the wider organisation.

You’ll need to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.

• Experience in building and leading successful teams.

• ERP experience, ideally within an SAP environment.

• To be considered for this role, applicants must already hold a valid right to work in Ireland. We are currently unable to support employment permit sponsorship.

Even better if you have:

• A Master's degree in Supply Chain Management.

• Previous experience leading teams in Tech/Telecommunications.

• Experience leading with energy, positivity, and resilience.

• Experience within a highly visible role.

• Experience creating and building a positive culture.

Why Verizon?

Verizon is committed to maintaining a Total Rewards package which is competitive, valued by our employees, and differentiates us as an Employer of Choice.

• Performance and Pay: We are a ‘pay for performance’ company and your contribution is rewarded through competitive salaries and performance-based incentives. We create an opportunity for us all to share in the success of Verizon and the value we help to create through this broad-based discretionary equity award programme.

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