Procurement Director

Procurement Director, Global Inbound Ocean

Want to join a world-class global procurement organization where you can drive change while building a long-term career? Dell’s procurement organization offers the opportunity to learn industry leading skills through our in-house training programs and top of the line career development courses. Recognized for our world-class processes, as a member of the Worldwide Procurement team you will have an opportunity to support Dell’s transformation strategy, develop your career, and partner with a diverse team of talented procurement experts.

You will be part of the Global Fulfillment, Logistics and Trade (GFL&T) procurement organization and work as a Procurement Category Lead with a high visibility across the GFL&T and Global Operations leadership team and be responsible for managing the procurement of our Global Inbound Ocean expenditure

Principal Duties and Responsibilities include
- Executing strategic sourcing plans that enable the sustainable achievement of our cost improvement and service level goals
- Developing an external reference framework for key cost drivers within the Ocean Freight category and keeping abreast of market dynamics that will ensure a continued advantaged position for Dell
- Managing an analytics suite of key Ocean Freight metrics / indices and synthesizing such to provide key market insights in the management of the commodity
- Progressing productive working relationships with our key suppliers and enable supplier innovation through the leadership of a multi-tier supplier relationship strategy
- Leveraging advanced negotiating techniques, as appropriate, in commercial, contractual and service level dialog with suppliers
- Enhancing internal stakeholder engagement that enables opportunity for increased procurement contribution to business challenges within the ocean commodity

You should be comfortable with a fast-paced dynamic environment, be able to clearly and concisely communicate recommendations and conclusions with the support of detailed analysis and sources and be able to program manage effective and time-bound change management delivery through strong leadership of your direct and cross-functional global teams.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain or related field (MBA or post graduate degree preferred) Appropriate levels of experience (10 years+) will be accepted in lieu of meeting educational requirements
- 3 year+ specific commodity experience in the management of ocean procurement within a 3rd party forwarder environment or in a high volume ocean shipper
- Exceptional analytical capability to digest complex data and derive appropriate and meaningful business insights
- Able to communicate and storyboard concisely, articulate key messaging clearly and deliver effectively to enable influence and buy in to desired outcome
- Able to leverage advanced negotiation techniques to progress the sustainable achievement of cost, contractual and service level goals

Desirable
- Strong influencing skills and ability to build lasting relationships internally & externally and influence across multiple layers of the organization
- Distinctive problem solving leadership

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Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build a brighter digital tomorrow. Our company is made up of more than 150,000 people, located in over 180 locations around the world. We’re proud to be a diverse and inclusive team and have an endless passion for our mission to drive human progress.

What’s most important to us is that you are respected, feel like you can be yourself and have the opportunity to do the best work of your life - while still having a life. We offer excellent benefits, bonus programs, flexible work arrangements, a variety of career development opportunities, employee resource groups, and much more.

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