Global Strategic e-Sourcing Leader

JOB CATEGORY: Logistics/Transportation CAREER LEVEL: Experienced (Non-Manager) REFERENCE CODE: 1260 Global Strategic e-Sourcing Leader INVISTA is the world's largest integrated producer and marketer of premium fibers, resins and intermediates you see in products such as apparel, carpet, bedding, airbags, seatbelts, luggage, diapers, and soft drink packaging. Our powerful portfolio of recognizable consumer brands includes LYCRA®, STAINMASTER® and COOLMAX® just to name a few. With employees located across six continents, we are committed to our customers' growth through market insights and technology innovations. You can learn more about INVISTA by visiting www.INVISTACareers.com Global Strategic e-Sourcing Leader To ensure our continued success, we must attract and retain exceptional talent at all levels of our organization. We are currently seeking an experienced Global Strategic e-Sourcing Leader to join our team. This functional role will be responsible for leading enterprise e-Sourcing business strategies by directing the development, implementation and maintenance of business processes and applications to enable world class performance. Leader will report to Global Procurement Managing Director and be a member of Global Procurement Staff; in addition the successful candidate will lead Global Procurement Network to drive e-Sourcing competency throughout organization. Responsibilities: * Lead the development of overall strategy for leveraging e-Sourcing tools for Global Procurement organization, including eRFx, Auction, Contract, and Project Management capability. * Leading regional Procurement networks to understand how best to apply e-Sourcing strategies and provide support for execution of sourcing initiatives consistent with these strategies while capability being developed in organization. * Maintain external knowledge of world class e-Sourcing capability to understand trends, new applications and/or opportunities to drive value for INVISTA; also maintain network with Georgia Pacific e-Sourcing Leader to leverage key learnings and optimize value for Koch. * Responsible for maintaining e-Sourcing Policy, Procedures and Guidelines; work thru COE Team to maintain training program to ensure skills and capabilities are maintained plus new users are on-boarded. * Identify and implement changes to business process and enhancements to the e-Sourcing application to maintain world class capability based on business value creation. * Provide direction to the e-Sourcing Content Management resource on routine maintenance of e-Sourcing application, including addition or upgrades to contract and supplier templates, new user setup, and all other tactical activities. * Work in conjunction with IT s-Sourcing Application Resource to communicate changes to e-Sourcing system to Technical through the change control process; create and communicate e-Sourcing application standards; and support configuration and testing efforts of the e-Sourcing software. Qualifications: * 10+years strategic commodity procurement desired* Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills * Self-motivated, team player with business acumen * Electronic sourcing application experience * Good verbal and written communication skills * Ability to travel and work at other site locations * Bachelors Degree or higher in Business, Technical/Engineering or other related fields * Proficiency in MS Office (including Excel, Word, Powerpoint)Experience & Skills Preferred: * ISM CPM certification * SAP R/3 applications experience a plus * 5-10 years of business analytics work a plus We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/VCompetitive wages and benefits packages commensurate with experience. We are an equal opportunity employer. MFDVLYCRA, STAINMASTER, ANTRON, COOLMAX, TERATHANE, CORDURA and POLYSHIELD are all registered trademarks of INVISTA.