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CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ: COO), is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visitwww.coopervision.com

Job Summary:

The Procurement Manager provides category expertise, efficiency, and effectiveness of complex regional to global multi-project management, demonstrates the leadership capabilities, brings an innovation mindset and being an agent of change for the Procurement organization. More specifically, the Procurement Manager is responsible for leveraging their category expertise by working closely with the business stakeholders to identify, define and execute key projects that support defined business goals and objectives over a 12-36-month horizon. The Procurement Manager will handle multiple highly complex regional to global projects and lend his/her industry and category expertise with other team members.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

• Inspire trust and confidence with executive leadership.
• Engage with management team and stakeholder team members to drive strategic initiatives effectively balancing the RFx process and the TCO evaluation of suppliers against the business stakeholders requirements and supplier preferences. Recognized as a company expert within his/her field.
• Ability to simultaneously manage 8 highly complex projects, leading all deliverables, analytics, negotiations, and project management details (as needed). These projects will span from a regional to global scope and will support the companys key strategic priorities. Additionally, these projects will typically impact multiple functions and involve medium to large sized project teams representing multiple business areas.
• Manage full sourcing process for the most complex projects inclusive of supply market analysis, leverage spend, establishing business requirements, driving requirements, negotiating SOWs, contract terms, executing and monitoring complex contracts, conducting, and monitoring supplier business reviews.
• Independently collaborate with key stakeholders to develop annual category management plan that incorporates the stakeholders strategy, goals, challenges, constraints, and objectives with a 1 to 3- year time horizon key outputs included but not limited to spend breakdown, strategic sourcing pipeline, process improvements, supplier rationalizations, targeted supplier business reviews, sourcing levers, etc.
• Ability to maintain accountability, delivering against timelines, building relationships, and becoming a trusted advisor with business stakeholders, executive management, and suppliers.
• Perform significant total cost of ownership evaluations, perform supply-market research, conduct the most complex pricing audits and impact analysis for the pursuit of continuous cost improvements.
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to identify and execute continuous cost improvement programs and resolve significant and unique strategic supplier performance issues to ensure business satisfaction.
• Contribute to measuring success, including savings, innovation related to process improvements, improved delivery, and simplified processes.

Travel Requirements:

• Approximately 25% of travel

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent professional communications (verbal and written) with suppliers, stakeholders, and management.
• Strategic Sourcing
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Spend Analytics
• Supplier Management
• Contract Compliance
• Strategic Collaboration Management
• Executive Presentation
• Leadership
• Proficiency in spreadsheet software (e.g., Microsoft, Excel), presentation software (i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint), Oracle iProcurement, and spend analytics tools.

Work Environment:

• Standard office work environment

Experience:

• 10 years of sourcing and procurement professional experience.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required with a preference for Accounting/Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related; MBA, CPSM, CPM or Supply Management certification a plus.

For U.S. locations that require disclosure of compensation, the starting base pay for this role is between $75.00 and $87.50 per hour and may include cost of living adjustments. The actual base pay includes many factors and is subject to change and modification in the future. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation and benefits.

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