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Strategic Sourcing Director - Global Plant & Facilities
Location: Aston Site, Sheffield, UK
Employment Status: Full-Time
Function: Supply Management/Purchasing
Hiring Manager: Lloyd Anthony Scott
Recruiter: Helen Green
Internal Candidate Eligibility Criteria:
1. Is a Lincoln Electric employee with at least 1 year of service
2. Is NOT on an active Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
Job Responsibilities
* Lead a global strategic sourcing team responsible for global plant operations and facilities services spend category.
* Ensure the health & outlook of the supply chain; and support the business by creating procurement strategies and plans, based upon budgets, and coordinating project/order related materials, services, and engineering requirements with total transparency to the team.
* Manage a team of sourcing specialists, who will help define and proliferate global sourcing strategies.
* Drive optimized levels of procurement cost including year over year savings targets, based on category spend data available.
* Define and maintain a formal strategic sourcing plan.
* Lead global sourcing councils where applicable with representatives from key stakeholder functions, who will contribute to the creation, ratify, and proliferate the strategic sourcing plan for the spend category managed.
* Partner collaboratively with all parts of the business, as well as the global procurement network, and implement procurement strategies and policies, applying a structured approach.
Job Requirements
* Master’s degree in a relevant field such as business Administration, Supply Chain Management or related field or MCIPS qualification.
* 10+ years of experience in procurement or supply chain management.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Demonstrated leadership and ability to design, develop, and implement a category management strategic approach across a global organisation combined with exemplary Procurement capability and a track record of success.
* Ability to build trust and confidence quickly and professionally.
* Ability to coordinate between multiple groups in a cross functional environment to achieve objectives.
* Ability to bring strategic thinking and leading best practice solutions. Experience in procurement transformation is a plus.
* Advanced project leadership skills, designing and leading on delivery of large and complex sourcing, outsourcing, and managed services projects (e.g., MSP, RPO, IFM).
Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
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