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Director of Procurement

United States

We Create Products and Brands That People Trust to Clean, Sanitize, and Protect Their Homes and Pools

When you join KIK Consumer Products, you’re joining a team that cares about the work we do and also about each other. We bring exceptional brands and products to consumers that help them protect the health and wellness of their families and the cleanliness of their homes and pools. We are committed to building a culture of performance driven by accountability, collaboration, and agility that enables timely fact-based decision-making and exceptional execution with unwavering ethics. As one of North America’s largest independent manufacturers of consumer products, KIK helps a large portfolio of brands and retailers bring their products to life.

Your Role at KIK

Manage assigned Chemicals categories with responsibilities for analyzing spend data, sourcing, negotiation, administration, and implementation of strategic initiatives across all Business Units. This will be accomplished by developing and managing the corporate initiatives, strategy development and execution. Responsible for leading supplier relationship management (SRM) activities, acting as the subject matter expert (SME), and leading cross functional teams in support of new or developing category initiatives that drive value and savings. This position reports to the Vice President of Procurement and is a remote position.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leadership

Provide guidance, mentoring and leadership to 2 category managers or commodity specialists
Provides effective escalation support to resolve issues affecting plant operations, supply chain or PMO.
Provides collaborative leadership and expertise to internal and external stakeholders

Category Management

Develop and implement strategic plans for a spend of approximately $350MM of chemicals subcategories
Lead procurement activities in cross-functional teams with launch and delivery of new category management initiatives
Support opportunity assessments and benchmarking to develop sourcing opportunities
Act as subject matter expert for category, maintain business intelligence, current knowledge of market trends, commodity data, and regulatory guidelines and employ best-in-class procurement methodology for the category

Strategic Sourcing

Jointly plan and execute sourcing strategies across Business Units utilizing 7-step sourcing methodology for sourcing projects
Conduct research on market dynamics, cost drivers, supplier business models, and historical spend to enhance future negotiations
Develop an understanding of supply and demand characteristics while negating supply risk (security of supply)
Develop different award optimization scenarios to minimize total cost of ownership and conduct post-implementation variance analysis
Track and communicate procurement KPIs and savings tracking to determine procurement effectiveness

Contract Management & Compliance

Develop and negotiate contracts, long-term agreements and amendments with suppliers
Review contracts ensuring compliance around pricing, payment terms, volume commitments, rebates, etc
Support Legal Team in the administration of contract data, addendums, and additional supplier documentation

Supplier Relationship Management

Manages key supplier performance goals and objectives; communicates periodic results to plan and manages top-level continuous improvement. Develops keen awareness of industry performance benchmarks
Support risk management assessment relating to supplier vulnerability, sourcing options, and material availability

Project management & Process Improvement

Develops implementation and transition plans to support supplier qualification/transition.
Develop, investigate and deliver year-over-year cost savings through total cost management tools such as productivity improvement, value analysis/value engineering, lean, six-sigma, etc.

What You’ll Bring

Bachelor's degree required in Business or Engineering
Minimum of 5 years experience sourcing, chemicals sourcing is a preferred
Expertise sourcing various chemicals such as HDPE resin, chlorine, caustic soda, etc.
Experience managing multiple sites, industrial process-oriented manufacturing environment with a minimum of $100M of spend
Demonstrated command of complex sourcing, negotiating, and commodity strategies
Strong people management abilities with superior communication skills, both written and verbal
Strong leadership, initiative, and planning skills.
Critical thinker, with excellent analytic abilities
30% of travel required
Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing is strongly preferred

What You Will Get

KIK offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, wellness, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. You can plan for your future with KIK's retirement savings options including employer match. KIK also recognizes the importance of continuing education and offers Education Assistance to our employees to encourage continued personal development and growth.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. This position has a base salary range of $175,000 – 190,000 plus an annual incentive bonus. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic/office location.

About KIK

We create the products and brands that people trust to clean, sanitize, and protect their homes and pools. We are one of North America’s largest independent consumer product manufacturers with 16 North American manufacturing facilities. We also operate globally in Canada, Europe, and Australia. We are known for our portfolio of notable brands including Spic and Span® and Comet® cleaning products, Clorox® Pool&Spa™ (under license), BioGuard®, and Natural Chemistry® pool chemicals. We are also the #1 producer in North America of store-brand (“private label”) bleach and a leading private-label provider of laundry detergent and additives, dishwashing products, general-purpose cleaning, and other home care products.

Our global team of over 2,300 employees drives our capabilities in product development, product formulation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, packaging design, brand marketing, project management, quality assurance, compliance, distribution, and logistics.

Our organization is constantly evolving and is driven by a set of “One KIK” values – a dedication to following through on commitments in a customer-focused, profit-motivated way; while never compromising on safety, ethics, or integrity.

KIK is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. KIK does not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, status in uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information or any other status protected by law.

KIK is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application, or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the job, please contact Human Resources immediately.

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