Director, Purchasing

General Job Description : Purchasing Director directs the procurement and purchasing operations and strategy to provide the material and services to meet organizational requirements for quality, volume, availability, and pricing. Evaluates and develops strategic supplier relationships, negotiates contracts, and implements systems for monitoring performance, assessing risk, and responding to change in demand of disruptions in the supply chain.

Supervises : Purchasing Managers or Supervisors

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee all procurement support operations including purchasing, subcontracting, project vendor management support, Tool cribs, Fabrication Shops, Facility Management, Capital Expenditures, and other Business Unit costs.
• Works to develop new process improvement concepts to increase efficiency and better team engagement.
• Signature authority for project support purchase orders, subcontracts, business unit or CapEx AIA contracts.
• Responsible for subcontract review of non-union requests, bond reviews, and redline review / negotiations.
• Maintain relationships with key staff at major suppliers in all markets.
• Work with Business Unit Managers to ensure a working understanding of ACCO's needs in order to continually improve on Purchasing department processes and results.
• Maintain productivity KPI for Project Buyers to ensure requests are being handled in a timely manner.
• Hold regular meetings with direct reports to review all open problems, understand cost implications, and direct strategy to ensure ethical practices with our suppliers and minimum ACCO's loss as a result of supplier actions.
• Prepare quarterly report for distribution to VP level ACCO leaders and the VP, Procurement which details open problems, summary of any issues, expected cost impacts, and recovery projections.
• Work to manage the process of mitigating delays, properly notifying suppliers of their responsibilities from a cost perspective relative to supplier caused issues, and resolving billing disputes between ACCO and suppliers.
• Maintain an understanding of material demands and commodity markets as it relates to developing the best cost positions possible.

Position Requirements (Skills, Work Experience, Education, etc.) :

ACCO Competencies :

Physical Requirements :

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Hours :

This is an exempt position. Workdays are scheduled from Monday through Friday. Typically, work hours begin and end between 7 : 00 am and 5 : 00 pm as scheduled with the position's supervisor. Occasional overtime may be necessary per business needs.

Travel : 15 - 20% of the time to and from the primary office to regional branch offices.