Our Opportunity:
Chewy is recruiting for an Indirect Procurement Category Management Director responsible for Fulfilment Center Sourcing including Real Estate transactions and Outsourced Services. Chewy is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce enterprises and rapidly reinvents traditional pet specialty channels. Here at Chewy, we are on a mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents (and partners) everywhere. This is the chance to create an immediate, significant, and lasting impact on our fast-growing company.
This leader will drive the development, implementation, vision and strategy for the Fulfilment Center Sourcing team. This includes providing flexible, adaptable, and innovative sourcing support to the business area. The candidate will also be responsible for collaboration and partnering to be a trusted advisor to the executive leadership and functional leadership team to drive strategic sourcing and supply management.
What You'll Do:
- Personally develops, leads, and handles all fulfilment center lease transactions and outsourced services & sub-categories.
- Ability to assess and scale an impactful team that can go above and beyond year over year, build a compelling, logical case for organizational change. You will be leading and inspiring the team, creating a sense of purpose, engagement, communication, collaboration, and celebrate successes.
- Ensure Indirect Procurement is a commercial asset and not just a compliance function. Specifically, where the business is not engaged, find ways of improving engagement and develop a plan of action.
- Develop and lead a Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) program to include Business reviews, Scorecards (Supplier Performance Ratings), and Risk Management.
- Champion and enact pan-business sourcing to demonstrate Chewy’s buying power.
- Drives end-to-end category strategy, mapping out the current landscape and defining an improvement plan for the near, mid, and long-term to stimulate interest from and engagement with partners.
- Co-develop and implement sourcing strategies with the business, authoritatively advising and guiding the process to the best-fit approach, tactics, and tools (e.g., outcome-based specifications, RFP/RFI/RFQ builds, E-auctions, KPI/SLA development).
What You'll Need:
- BA or BS required; MBA preferred. Procurement qualifications are a plus (e.g., CSPM, APP, ISM, IPMM or MCIPS).
- Proven experience in building and scaling strategic procurement teams to be able to succeed in a global, complex, and innovative environment.
- 15 + years of experience in Global Strategic Sourcing Procurement organizations, with at least 10 years in using spans and layers modeling to build high performance teams.
- Expertise in driving commercial real estate agreements, equipment lease and purchase strategies, and familiarity with Federal Regulations.
- Expertise in developing, leading, driving and managing suppliers, and contract negotiations including achievement of TCO value. Extensive knowledge of category management, extraordinary practices and principles.
- Demonstrating value delivery to a target audience of C-Suite, VP/Sr. Dir / Dir level Team Members to reinforce stakeholder agreement.
- Leadership skills to effectively advise and drive their team to achieve results in a global organization.
- Proven track record to deliver measurable and valuable results against the organization's goals.
- Deep experience in P2P/procure-to-pay/source-to-pay enablement (Oracle/Coupa)
- High level of customer focus and an ability to adapt to a constantly evolving environment.
- Up to 15% travel may be required.
Compensation & Benefits:
Our salary range for a Director, Procurement position is $180,500.00 - $288,500.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant.
We offer different types of insurance, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
Salaried-exempt Team Members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team Members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team Members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
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What We Do
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. We view pets and pet parents as family, and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Behind the scenes, our talented teams are made up of innovators, delighters, big-thinkers and of course, passionate pet people—creating a place where you'll be empowered to build, growand unleash your fullest potential.
Launched in 2011, we offer the personalized service of a neighborhood pet store alongside the convenience and speed of e-commerce. Customers love shopping our wide selection of products of more than 100,000 products (including our Private brands and prescription Rx food and Rx medication products), which we offer at competitive prices, fast 1-2 day shipping and around-the-clock convenience that only e-commerce can offer.
Chewy’s commitment to customer service is the core of our brand, and our customers love us for it. We “WOW” pet parents through 24/7 assistance, advice and encouragement every day of the year. We make pet parenting easy with our convenient Autoship subscription program—which allows our customers to schedule their orders, so they never run out of their pet food, supplies and medication they need.
As an e-commerce company, product innovation drives our operations, and our team is constantly striving to find new and better ways to improve our customers’ experience. From an easy-to-navigate website and highly rated mobile apps, to detailed order tracking and personalized “Pet Profile” features, we are transforming the way pet parents shop.
Why Work With Us
We're proud to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies of all time.
With growth comes the exciting opportunity to be a part of a world-class organization of engineering, product, and design team members, responsible for driving our latest innovations and designing "out-of-the Chewy box" experiences.
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