Director, Strategic Purchasing

Who we are...

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities.

Culture

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

The Director of Purchasing will lead and oversee the procurement of goods, service management, and capital equipment on a global scale. This role includes negotiating, reviewing, and managing contracts, ensuring effective production planning, inventory control, purchasing, receiving, warehousing, and product shipping. The Director of Purchasing will provide strategic leadership within a network of global suppliers, optimizing fulfillment, pricing, quality, and business processes to align with corporate and industry best practices.

Essential Responsibilities:

Contract Negotiation and Management

• Negotiates, reviews, and manages contracting for the procurement of goods, service management, and capital equipment worldwide.
• Ensure all contracts meet legal and regulatory requirements and align with company policies

Operations Management

• Manages all production planning, inventory control, purchasing, receiving, warehousing and product shipping.
• Develop and implement efficient processes to optimize operations and achieve strategic goals
• Develop and implement a data-management systems to provide feedback, metrics, and visibility regarding health & performance of the operations.

Strategic Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership within a network of global suppliers focused on optimizing fulfillment, pricing, quality and business process to align with corporate & industry best practices.
• Create and optimize purchasing strategies to align with corporate objectives; manage to defined budgets, forecasts, policies, service levels, and quality assurance targets.
• Determine current and future business needs and translate these into global requirements with clear controls, documented process flows, and best-in-class quality standards.
• Extensive experience in all aspects of vendor management, regarding price, product and delivery performance management.
• Develops and manages programs to optimize raw materials flow and inventory turns.
• Regarded as an industry expert pertaining to ERP skills and understanding.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience, or 5+ years with a degree and certification in related field.
• Deep understanding of ERP management systems; Oracle, SAP, Great Plains, Service Now preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills, Leadership qualities, project management, team building, managing remote teams.
• Demonstrated experience in supplier performance management practices and cost management.
• Proven experience conducting cost-benefit analysis, master service agreements and managing contract manufacturers.
• Demonstrated team and project leadership.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Verra Mobility Values

An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:

• Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Lead with Grace. We express humility and compassion, and we are authentic and candid. Our employees demonstrate self-awareness, care for others, instill trust, and communicate effectively.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.