Director Procurement - Additives and Solvents

This position has the global responsibility for directing the development of a strategic vision and management for Additives and Solvents both internally (cross-functional teams) and externally (suppliers) based on the high profile & high complexity materials that represent this category. Responsibilities include directing the development & strategic Procurement execution of strategies, monitoring market movements and negotiating both US centric and collaborating on global agreements, working with a broad base of business groups, and resolving issues with suppliers. This position will work directly with senior leadership within procurement and the business units to develop and execute global long-term material strategies in support of Group growth initiatives. The position will strive to independently lead and execute through cross-functional strategic project teams while closely collaborating with the responsible Sr. Director.

This category is inherently an extremely complex category due to the # of single sourced SKUs' and significant SKU proliferation across all BUs'.

Essential Functions: This position has total responsibility for directing

1. The NA Procurement activities of Additives and Solvents for all Sherwin-Williams BUs' (PSG, CBG and PCG) in concert with Global Procurement's strategic plan and collaborating across the other regions, aka, EMEAI, LATAM and APAC
2. Development and implementation of Regional & Global Category strategies and strategic Procurement alliances resulting in the best value (i.e., total cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability & technical support)
3. Developing & implementing policies and procedures which enhance and simplify the managing of the Procurement function at the headquarters, field and global level
4. Coordinate the continuous improvement program of Supplier Performance focusing on supply security and limiting SKU proliferation / complexity reduction
5. Support Sherwin-Williams Business Unit Clients in the purchases of Additives and Solvents at each of their facilities
6. Will need to support at least one of the PCG BUs' as a critical POD representative which will be defined in conjunction with the Sr. Director. In this capacity, should plan to serve as main Procurement contact for designated BU Client, facilitate BU Client/ Global Procurement business strategy alignment, provide Procurement centric information (FIM, market conditions, strategy shifts, etc.) and "Voice of Procurement" into BU Client organization, as well as, advocate for the BU Client into Procurement Department for key projects and initiatives
7. This position is responsible for staffing, organizing, and enabling the NA Procurement Additives and Solvents commodity areas and closely aligning with the regional leadership in EMEAI, LATAM and APAC on their procurement strategies as relevant to this category. This position will have direct responsibility to develop, train and motivate senior managers, managers, specialists and analysts who may be part of the team.

POSITION CHALLENGES:

• Working cross-culturally and communicating with colleagues who are versatile in non-English languages
• Extremely high visibility due to direct impact across all Sherwin-Williams business units
• Relatively high category complexity, SKU count and single-sourced situations
• Volume and scope of issues that arise
• Significant SKU complexity (represents ~20-25% of SKUs' procured across the enterprise) and complexity due to spend on individual SKUs' and associated change management relevant topics
• Limited direct resources and need to work through matrixed cross-functional team(s) / organization
• Delivery dependency on other functions and business unit priority
• Complexity and speed of everchanging business requirements across diverse, global business units

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

1. Required:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.

1. Preferred:

• Master's Degree from an accredited institution in Engineering/Sciences/Business Management
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution in Engineering/Sciences/Business Management

1. KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
2. Required:

• Strong work experience, with a breadth of knowledge and multi-functional expertise.
• Proven track record of independent thinking, cost savings, technical expertise, and ability to drive change within the scope of their duties
• Proven track record of successful delivery of strategic business transformation through a number of large-scale, high profile, strategic business projects or programs in a complex organizational setting.
• Minimum of ten (10) years post college experience

1. Preferred:

• Specific work experience in the chemicals/coatings space will be a PLUS
• Minimum of ten (10) years successful Procurement (primary) with Marketing, Technical, Operations, Supply Chain, or related experience (secondary) is desirable
• Must be a self-starter with an ability to work with minimal direction/supervision in a fast-paced environment
• Successful track record Procurement high profile, high complexity direct (raw) materials & supplies
• Track record of increasing responsibility with strong performance and focus on cost savings and security of supply
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, Power Point and Access.

1. TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
2. Required:
   • Absolute integrity in protecting confidential Company information.
   • Ability to manage disagreements with tact and professionalism to arrive at appropriate business decisions.
   • Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
   • Ability to influence others.
   • Excellent written and oral communications skills, with absolute attention to detail.
   • Proven ability to build relationships.
   • Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas and technologies quickly.
   • Strong systems/process orientation.
   • Demonstrated analytical thinking, organization and problem solving skills.
   • Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
   • Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
   • Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment while having a practical approach to share the work between the local organization and external expertise.
   • Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment, and have the confidence to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority.
   • Ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.
   • Proficient in taking new concepts from initiation to implementation.
   • Ability to acquire, develop and retain talent in accordance to meet organizational requirements

1. Preferred:

• Multi-Lingual

1. TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: (TIME SPENT AWAY FROM HOME OR OTHER TYPICAL OFFICE LOCATION)

• 25%