Organization:ICANN
Location:Los Angeles, California, United States
Salary: Very Attractive
Tracking Code 213674-025
Job Description
ICANN has an exciting new opportunity for a Procurement Director based in our new Los Angeles Headquarters, reporting to the CFO. The Procurement director will design, implement and manage the procurement policies and processes of the organization. Specifically, the position requires identifying needs and defining the procurement processes adapted to optimize costs and efficiency.
A true partner to the business, the Procurement Director maintains communication at all levels of the organization to ensure that the procurement activities of the organization are addressed through policies, procedures and supported by adequate systems. Duties also include identifying potential suppliers, soliciting and reviewing bids, selecting suppliers, negotiating and awarding contracts. Other duties include identifying potential cost savings, developing and overseeing metrics, ensuring compliance with rules and regulations and overseeing procurement staff.
Key Responsibilities
- Design/update the procurement policy for the company.
- Review and improve procurement systems.
- Manage the development and implementation of purchasing programs consistent with ICANN’s policies.
- Define and monitor the processes to select vendors.
- Negotiate, in coordination with business managers, pricing, quantity, terms and other elements of purchasing agreements.
- Ensure compliance with Company policies and procedures including purchasing authority.
- Analyze purchasing activities and recommend and implement improvements to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
- Conduct spend and ROI analyses, define quantified costs reduction objectives in coordination with management and business managers.
- Identify and communicate best practices.
- Other duties as assigned or requested.
http://www.icann.org.
There is no typical ICANN employee.
Our staff has a wide range of backgrounds and working styles, with many working remotely, and we have offices in Europe and the United States. We are expanding and changing rapidly with plans to open offices in Singapore and Istanbul before our fiscal year end. Most ICANN employees own their own projects, work closely with executive management and enjoy a rich benefits plan. Come work with the people who are shaping the future of the Internet!
Required Skills
Ability to manage various purchasing systems and projects
Proven ability to compose policies and procedures, summaries and other written communication
Proven ability to win agreement through collaboration and constructive compromise
Ability to demonstrate the value added by procurement policies/processes/systems to an organization
Ability to demonstrate a strong sense of customer service
Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to multi-task
Proficiency using Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Adobe Professional
Ability to solve complex issues in a complex environment
Ability to work with highly diverse and international workforce
Ability to work independently (self motivated)
Ability to exhibit leadership qualities and serve as a role model to the organization with respect to management style, communications, teamwork, work ethic, honesty, integrity, and fair play. The position requires an individual who can establish an environment that nurtures and encourages creative thinking and teamwork.
Required Experience
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Business
- Minimum 7 years related purchasing/procurement experience
- Minimum 12 years of business experience
- Experience includes professional services sourcing/procurement
- Must have built and reorganized a corporate procurement function, policy/process/procedures.
- Must have managed RFPs and negotiation with vendors
- Cost control experience balancing quality and budget constraints.
- Experience managing sensitive relationships with major vendors.
- Experience implementing procurement best practices - both strategies and implementation.
- Experience in establishing and monitoring performance metrics
ICANN is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation,
age or other protected characteristics and complies with all applicable laws and regulations.
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. ICANN offers a competitive benefits package, including a retirement savings plan and also employer-paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.
All resumes should accompany a well written cover letter (first impressions are everything). Tell us why you are the best person for the job. Only those with comparable skills will be contacted. No phone calls or email please.
About ICANN:
ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer – a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn’t have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit:
Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013
How to Apply
http://unjobs.org/vacancies/1377201469575