About Quench
Quench's purpose is to impact people's lives and improve the earth by helping to eliminate the 500 million plastic bottles consumed each year. We play a front-line role in the battle against single-use plastic water bottles by delivering on-demand filtered water solutions to more than 120,000 healthy and environmentally conscious customers across North America. Quench bottle-free water coolers, ice machines, sparkling water dispensers and coffee brewers purify the existing water supply, providing an endless supply of clean water and water-based beverages for a fixed monthly fee, typically under a long term bundled service and rental subscription agreement. Quench has grown from a small regional company to an international leader that had a successful NYSE public offering in 2016 and is now a strategic company owned by private equity backed Culligan. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Quench has more than 1,200 team members operating out of more than 90 locations across North America and Puerto Rico. For more information visit www.quenchwater.com .
About Culligan
Founded by Emmett Culligan in 1936, Culligan is a world leader in delivering superior water solutions that will make a real difference in improving the health and wellness of consumers. The company offers some of the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art water filtration and treatment products. These products include water softeners, drinking water systems, whole-house systems and solutions for businesses. Culligan's network of franchise dealers is the largest in the world, with over 900 dealers in 90 countries. Many Culligan dealers have valuable equity in their local communities as multigenerational family owners of their franchises. For more information visit www.culligan.com .
Values: 5Cs
- Culligan as One
- Consumer's come first
- Commitment to Innovation
- Courage to do what's right
- Consistently deliver exceptional results
The Position
The Director of Procurement will be entrusted with a pivotal role in spearheading our procurement operations. You will play a critical role in helping to both build and develop procurement processes as well as drive procurement efforts across the organization. You will work closely with the VP of Supply Chain and other leaders across the organization to identify opportunities across spend categories, develop strategies, and run and execute procurement efforts to improve the spend and overall total costs of ownership for Quench. As a key expert, you will lead the development of key processes to improve our spend efficiency, vendor management, and drive compliance to standards and technical requirements. To be successful you will be a strong collaborator with leaders and key stakeholders to create alignment on procurement efforts, key category spend decisions, and support the development and execution of change management to help transform our spend position, enable profitable growth, and create flexibility and efficiency in our supply chain and across our procurement needs.
Responsibilities
- Procurement strategy and process development
- Develop and implement procurement strategies and best practice processes aligned with organizational goals and objectives. Continuously assess market trends, industry best practices, and technological advancements to optimize procurement processes.
- Category management and execution
- Manage key spend categories totaling $20M+ in spend, including, but not limited to, MRO, consumables, logistics, parts and supplies, as well as other indirect spend categories, identifying cost-saving opportunities through data driven insights and executing best practice processes, enabling supplier consolidation, driving volume discounts, and improving processes to improve total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Implement cost reduction initiatives while maintaining quality standards, improving operational efficiency, and improving service levels.
- Supplier Management:
- Identify, evaluate, and manage vendor relationships to ensure quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Negotiate contracts, pricing, and terms with key suppliers to secure favorable agreements, manage service expectations while mitigating risks
- Develop score cards and cadence to ensure supplier performance, commitments, and continuous improvement year-over-year
- Performance Monitoring, Spend visibility, and Reporting:
- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure procurement performance and track progress against targets.
- Develop and manage spend cube to monitor and understand overall spend across categories and areas of opportunity.
- Generate reports and analysis to provide insights into procurement activities and performance metrics.
- Stakeholder Engagement:
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including finance, supply chain, service, legal, and Culligan's Purchasing/Sourcing COE, to understand business requirements and align procurement
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for procurement initiatives, including sharing best practices, systems, and content with Culligan's Purchasing/Sourcing COE.
- Compliance and quality assurance:
- Ensure adherence to relevant laws, regulations, industry standards, and company policies in all procurement activities.
- Implement quality control measures to ensure procured products and services meet or exceed company standards.
- Risk Management:
- Develop strategies to mitigate supply chain and business risks, ensuring business continuity and resilience.
Competencies
Skills:
- Experience as a procurement leader and/or spend management owner.
- Financial acumen and proficiency in managing expenditure pipelines, conducting spend analyses, and exceeding financial goals.
- Knowledge of procurement best practice processes, supply chain management, and sourcing strategies.
- Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
- Solid collaboration skills and a commitment to multi-functional thinking - ability to work across teams to align on needs, trade-offs, and decisions.
- Effective planning, priority setting, and project management skills to support multiple efforts simultaneously.
- Demonstrated initiative and innovation with a track record of building programs and finding creative solutions to challenges.
- Ability to develop business cases and align teams on data-driven decisions.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of relevant laws and regulations in procurement.
- Familiarity with procurement software and tools.
Behaviors:
- Highly motivated, collaborative, and innovative.
- Analytical and strategic thinking with a results-oriented mindset.
- Resilient to drive to answers, working cross-functionally as needed.
- Comfortable with shared accountability for outcomes associated with efforts.
- Strong problem solver to identify new negotiating strategies and solutions for execution.
- Effective time manager based on value-driven prioritization.
- Honest, humble, integrity-driven in all facets of the role, owning and learning from mistakes.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Quench provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to sex, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital or family status, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, benefits, training, social and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.
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