Director of Procurement

CEC is committed to hiring people with passion, talent, a collaborative spirit, and a drive to succeed both individually and as a team. With offices in DFW, Austin, Phoenix, and Montana, CEC Facilities Group is one of Texas' premier specialty contractors, and we are growing at a rapid pace. We are looking for competent professionals to join our team as we launch new projects and continue growing.

Position Summary

The Director of Procurement is responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of an organization's procurement processes and strategies. This pivotal role involves coordinating purchasing activities, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring the procurement function supports the organization's goals and objectives. The Director of Procurement plays a critical role in optimizing costs, improving supply chain efficiency, and mitigating risks associated with procurement activities.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction to implement all new policies, procedures, business processes, business systems and as well implement robust data analytics capabilities in the global procurement organization.
• Lead collaborative efforts across business groups, functional teams, at multi levels to provide stable foundation for procedures & processes that will enable execution of Business & Supply goals.
• Drives, develops, and tracks departmental KPIs. Uses data to drive continuous improvement including identifying opportunities, facilitating improvement activity, and leading change through the business process analytics system.
• Develop and grow Procurement data analytics across multiple technology platforms and partners.
• Collaborate with supply chain and business leaders to define the strategy for operationalizing and scaling analytics solutions.
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure current processes are maintained, new processes are documented and implemented, and efficiencies are achieved.
• Creates, delivers, and leads the strategic direction for Master Data Management and Category Management, providing accurate, consistent, and complete master data across the organization.
• Leads overall business process, business system usage and reporting that provides accurate, consistent, and complete master data across the organization.
• Creates Procurement’s Transaction strategy and drives the P2P System Strategy to gain greater efficiencies.
• Develops and maintains practices, procedures, and tools to conduct process definition, measurement, and improvement.
• Develop analytic methods to keep pace with Procurement’s continuing growth & increasing responsibilities.
  
  

Other Duties And Responsibilities

• Performs other related duties as assigned to ensure efficient and effective completion of tasks and projects.
  
  

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
• Minimum 20 years’ relevant business experience with at least 15 years as a manager or above. Experience at a large construction firm specializing in utility and electrical construction desired.
  
  

Required Skills, Knowledge, And Abilities

• High level technical aptitude. systems, process improvement, continuous improvement skills necessary.
• 15+ years’ experience producing high quality, well-regarded, analytics and insights.
• Demonstrated ability to support geographically dispersed construction projects.
• Ability to think strategically and globally; ability to manage diverse stakeholder interests and expectations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills.
• Strong decision maker surrounding multi-million-dollar contracts and agreements and major policies.
• Excellent project management skills to drive projects to closure and complete on-time.
• Risk management skill set required to drive innovative solutions and problem-solving analysis and resolution.
• Experience with implementing ERP systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of implemented P2P process
  
  

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job may work inside or outside with possible exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures and weather elements in restricted or confined spaces, and on slippery or uneven surfaces. This job may have exposure to working on ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, and other exposures typical of heavy construction. This job also operates in an office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to traverse and inspect all areas of jobsite in all types of weather; this may include walking, climbing reaching, bending crawling, standing, or stretching.
• The employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, lift and /or move up to 50 pounds
• Move about on the feet regularly. Sit for extended periods of time.
• Requires the ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• May require travel.
• Exposure to characteristic construction site dangers.
• Talk and hear, ability to communicate with others both written and orally and by telephone.
• Possess good vision, normal or corrected. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision to discern color coded wires, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Possesses good hearing, normal or corrected.
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, safety vest), as needed.
• Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night shifts, as needed. Must be on-call to address delays, emergencies, bad weather, and other issues at the jobsite.
• Must be able to work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.
  
  

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in our workforce. It is our policy to attract and retain the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, status as a military veteran, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.