Position Summary:
Plans and implements activities related to the purchasing of materials, equipment and services for internal company use. Develops, communicates, and enforces company policies and procedures for purchasing. Reviews and approves purchases up to a specified dollar amount. May negotiate major contracts involving large dollar amounts. Monitors the cost, schedule and performance aspects of major contracts and subcontracts. Manages sourcing strategy for all goods and services. Directs and identifies sourcing and savings opportunities. Oversees negotiations, manages contracts, and relationships with vendors. Manages policies and metrics to ensure that savings goals are realized. Oversees relationship with technical buyers, engineers and management to identify new product needs, identifies new sources in order to meet business requirements. Responsible for quality control of vendor products.
Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs and other related duties may be assigned.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for design, implementation and ongoing improvement of Lead strategic sourcing activities in support of Information Technology to ensure business needs are met.
- Provide functional leadership and direction on Information Technology teams.
- Routinely working on significant and unique issues with uncertainty where analysis of situations or data requires good level of business understanding and analytical capability.
- Works on projects where outcomes will be dependent on other functions / teams delivering commitments and the incumbent needs to be able to influence delivery of these activities to meet the overall objectives.
- Leads the strategic roadmap creation and implementation of category strategies for Information Technology
- Negotiates agreements (i.e., development agreement, statements of work, licensing agreement, supply agreements, etc.) achieving favorable terms that mitigate business risks and protect Illumina’s IP while reducing equipment cost. .
- Strengthen strategic supplier relationships to reduce business risk and support manufacturing site escalations.
- Collaborate with suppliers to develop capabilities, continuity, and capacity.
- Leads the execution of continuous improvement initiatives within Global Supply Chain.
- Partners with executive stakeholders to achieve functional and company goals.
Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.
Requirements:
- Strategic thinker; anticipates and develops business opportunities and priorities for future action while also executing on concrete business objectives.
- Customer focused, able to listen, very responsive, and action oriented to meet business needs while maintaining a positive, professional outlook.
- Strong analytical skills that allow the successful candidate to extract core data from a variety of sources, draw conclusions and insights, and translate those insights into actions.
- Business acumen; demonstrated ability to understand financial and legal terms
- Ability to deal effectively with pressure, multiple tasks, deadlines, and rapidly changing priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with requisite interpersonal skills to partner, collaborate and build relationships with business partners, suppliers, and regional teams.
- Experience developing and leading RFx events.
- Strong negotiator; ability to negotiate the best deal for ILMN and influence upward. Experience with Microsoft, SAP, & Salesforce preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Familiarity with ERP and procurement systems.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, Access).
All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.
Experience/Education:
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent experience
- MBA preferred
