Associate Vice President, Indirect Strategic Sourcing

Job Description

The Procurement organization is looking for a leader for the Indirect Strategic Sourcing organization with a proven track record of success.  Indirect Strategic Sourcing, AVP who will lead a group of talented sourcing professionals located across Europe, Asia, Japan and the Americas, engaging with our business executives, supporting their strategies in delivering the best sourcing value for Agilent.

The Indirect categories of responsibility include WPS, Freight and Logistics, IT, HR, Professional Services,  Maintenance, Repair and Operations, Finance, Travel and Sales and Marketing, of annual spend of 1.5B.

• Proven Ability to engage with Senior Executives to support their strategies in delivering the best sourcing decisions for Agilent. Cultivate long-term relationships with both executives and key suppliers.

• Strategic Sourcing: Develop and implement comprehensive sourcing strategies

• Supplier Management: Conduct comprehensive due diligence on potential suppliers. Evaluate and manage relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and reliability

• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks in the supply chain to ensure business continuity.

• Cost Reduction: Develop and execute cost reduction plans, driving opportunities within the category strategies aligned with business priorities including negotiating contracts and managing supplier agreements.

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a diverse team of sourcing professionals, Globally fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

• Compliance: Ensure all sourcing activities comply with company policies, ethical standards, and legal requirements.

• Market Analysis: Conduct market research to identify trends, risks, and opportunities within the supply chain. Utilize analytics and AI to improve sourcing efficiency and accuracy.

• Sustainability: Focus on sustainable sourcing practices to meet environmental and social governance (ESG) goals, ie scope 3.

  The position requires a leader who is self-driven, has the ability to strategically consider the structure and development of the Sourcing function, experienced at leading and motivating a team, can effectively engage and influence executive stakeholders, develop team members for succession planning.     

Responsibilities:

• Able to focus beyond 'business as usual' -bring market intelligence and industry best practices to blend with stakeholder priorities/needs and develop best in class sourcing solutions for stakeholders.

• Must be a strong leader experienced in cross culture leadership, be a fully engaged team player and role model for the organization.

• Provide category manager leadership and support in the development of category strategies and execution to plan.

• Be capable to lead projects with stakeholders, partner with cross functional teams and drive procurement thought leadership.

• Capable to perform detailed assessments when required including process mapping, metric gathering and data analysis.

• Deliver seamless issue resolution, managing the balance between ease of operation and compliance.

You will be measured on: 

• Partner with Category Managers in building bottoms up plan aligned with business executives and present to VP of Global Sourcing for support, approval and quarterly reviews on progress.

• Savings, cost reduction and cost avoidance targets.

• Development of Sourcing's strategic plan and drive implementation.

• Effective business executive engagement and customer satisfaction.

• Drive effective Supplier relationship management (SRM).

• Adherence to process and policy compliance.

• Responsiveness to issue resolution requirements.

• Ability to influence key stakeholders, gain alignment.

• Innovative in development of breakthrough sourcing practices.

Preferred Location:

Within commutable distance to Wilmington, DE site. Remote work option available within the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent plus demonstrated industry experience integrating the resources of several complex departments or functions