Executive Director of Procurement Services

Job Profile Summary

The Executive Director of Procurement Services at Carnegie Mellon University is responsible for leading procurement efforts to efficiently and effectively enable departmental units and functional partners to maximize the value they receive from suppliers to meet individual departmental and University objectives. With a keen sense of vision and strategic leadership, the Executive Director will develop and implement plans and strategies accomplishing University goals effectively and in compliance with applicable legal requirements. The Executive Director will be responsible for overseeing strategic procurement enterprise wide, evaluating campus-wide spend analysis, and
building strategic relationships with key vendors. This will include working with internal stakeholders from initial need identification to final goods or services delivery.

The Executive Director is an integral member of the Finance Division and will work with stakeholders and functional leaders throughout the University. Carnegie Mellon University’s Finance Division is seeking an ambitious leader with strategic vision for the position of Executive Director of Procurement to transform Procurement and how we engage with campus partners and third party vendors. Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and implementing strategic and operational initiatives that support the university’s strategic plan.
• Providing leadership with the development, planning and execution of focused sourcing strategies to improve the range and quality of procurement services to ensure fiscal responsibility, efficiency and accountability.
• Enhance and create opportunities to align the University’s sourcing and spend goals with the Procurement organizational structure and skill sets.
• Engage academic and administrative units to identify areas that can be sourced university-wide to optimize university funds and create capacity.
• Ensuring critical relationships with suppliers are developed and maintained to deliver efficient sourcing strategies and solutions and creating a formal program to monitor supplier performance.
• Utilizing current and emerging technology to strategically serve the procurement and business services needs of the university.
• Consulting to create the best contractual outcome including efficient negotiations and strong legal and business terms.
• Monitoring and evaluating safety, quality, cost and delivery against relevant critical metrics and service-level agreements.
• Executing contracts against governance guidelines and required approvals.
• Understand and execute Uniform Guidance requirements and ensure that the Procurement policies and procedures support compliance.
• Understand and support the university in requirements for Small Business Utilization and associated requirements. Create a program to monitor category metrics to ensure categories and suppliers are performing in compliance with contracts; coordinating actions to address issues and mitigate risks; ensuring the procurement team manages supplier compliance to contractual terms.
• Ensuring the Carnegie Mellon procurement process exceeds the expectations of all partners including federal, state and local government authorities as applicable, as well as campus stakeholders.
• Providing procurement training to direct reports and campus stakeholders to enhance procurement services.

Training and Development Opportunities

Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing is encouraged to explore the relevant resources provided by our learning partners.

Communication

Computers/Software

Data Analysis

Financial Skills

Negotiating

Project Management

Relationship Building

Risk Management

Strategic Sourcing

Supply Chain

Time Management