Spectrum - Greenwood Village, CO
posted 3 months ago
This role is responsible for planning and implementing activities and efforts within the Centralized Purchasing group. The individual will develop, communicate, and enforce company policies and procedures for purchasing. This position involves directly supervising and mentoring a team of Buyers who coordinate and receive purchase requests from various Business Units. The role includes creating purchase requests in Ariba, ensuring that products and services are delivered and received in Ariba, and reconciling any mismatches between invoices, purchase orders, and receipts. The successful candidate will identify and create business value across the organization while modeling, leading, and training others to focus on quality and thoroughness. An expert-level understanding of Purchasing methodology and Charter policies is essential. The major duties and responsibilities include actively and consistently supporting all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience. The candidate will cultivate a culture of employee equity and inclusion, learning, respect, accountability, recognition, and a customer service focus. They will lead and manage multiple complex Business Units and Categories across up to four systems, managing day-to-day activities, setting targets, and implementing guidelines to achieve goals. Coaching and developing direct reports through continuous feedback and accountability for business objectives is a key aspect of this role. The individual will develop goals, document performance, provide performance feedback, and formally evaluate the work of employees, offering rewards and recognition for proper and efficient performance. Identifying and developing appropriate training, both formal and on-the-job, is crucial for staff development, cross-training, and resource load balancing. The role also involves performing front-end quality reviews to ensure that defined standards are met and that high-quality purchase requisitions are created and routed for approval. The candidate will manage, troubleshoot, and problem-solve any issues that arise in the end-to-end process from receipt of purchase requests through to the closing of open purchase orders. Building collaborative partnerships and effectively influencing colleagues across Operations and Procurement to implement key initiatives is essential. The candidate will develop and present persuasive responses using facts and logic to address concerns, partner with the business to identify and drive business process improvement opportunities, and serve as a subject matter expert for key purchasing processes and technology solutions. Driving operational and transactional efficiency, identifying gaps, root causes, and implementing resolutions are also critical responsibilities. The individual will evaluate, recommend, and develop best practices for their respective area, audit supplier performance on invoice and shipment discrepancies, and work closely with internal departments to resolve issues as needed. Leading formal communications on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance to key stakeholders is also part of the role, along with actively participating in various process improvement and cost optimization activities. The candidate will manage multiple ongoing complex projects for the team, ensuring that projects are completed on time by building timelines to achieve goals, and serve as the integration point to support complex, cross-functional initiatives. Additionally, the individual will assist and support the Sourcing Teams with competitive bid activities and perform other duties as assigned and/or required.