Head of Indirect Procurement
7 days ago
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Visa, a world leader in payments and technology, is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Procurement Leader to join its Sourcing Leadership Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and executing a multi-year strategic roadmap, category strategies, and plans for indirect procurement.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience as a Head of Indirect Procurement, advanced leadership skills, and a track record of success. They will be educated to degree level with postgraduate procurement accreditation and have the ability to bring strategic thinking and leading practices solutions. Experience in transformation of procurement functions is a plus.
The role involves building strong internal and external relationships, providing team leadership, and taking end-to-end accountability for delivering results. The successful candidate will offer direction and coaching to elevate professional standards, drive execution, and enhance engagement. This role contributes to the evolution and overall success of Visa Europe Sourcing and supports Visa's ESG initiatives, focusing on supplier diversity and sustainability.
Key Responsibilities- Overall Leadership: Lead and further develop the category area and the team of category managers, sourcing managers, and analysts.
- Functional Leadership: Provide overall functional leadership to the team, drive earlier engagement with the business and planning activities, and lead all aspects of the function, ensuring successful internal customer experience.
- ESG, Sustainability & Diversity in the Supply Chain: Contribute to a strategic approach to embedding sustainability and diversity in the Services area and act as an ambassador for the overall ESG agenda.
- Partnerships & Innovation: Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues in the Global Sourcing team and act as a Sourcing Business Partner to stakeholders with end-to-end accountability for support.
- Communication & Influencing: Communicate with and influence a complex ecosystem of stakeholders, business owners, and third-party suppliers and report on the category and team progress and performance using agreed key metrics.
- Operational Excellence: Drive the execution of powerful sourcing strategies for financial and other benefits realization and ensure that all global and regional projects are developed and executed with regional and local country engagement.
This is a hybrid position, and the employee will alternate time between both remote and office work. The employee is expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week, with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications- Extensive experience as a Head Of Indirect Procurement.
- Advanced Leadership skills with a track record of success.
- Educated to degree level with postgraduate procurement accreditation (MCIPS or MIIAPS).
- Ability to bring strategic thinking and leading practices solutions. Experience in transformation of procurement function is a plus.
- Broad experience in listed categories, supplier and market dynamics, business models, contract negotiations, implementation, and supplier relationship management.
- Track record of Category Management implementation and the ability to train others.
- Advanced project leadership skills, designing and leading on delivery of large and complex sourcing, outsourcing, and managed services projects (e.g., MSP, RPO, IFM).
- Experience working in complex, high and low maturity global and regional organizations.
- Excellent people management skills, with the track record of building high-performing and collaborative teams.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrable influencing skills and senior stakeholder management with credibility up to CxO level.
- High energy, pace, and an impeccable track record of teamwork, creating open and collaborative environment with colleagues, stakeholders, partners and suppliers.
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
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