Provide leadership and support of the procurement process for all Americas Hotel Procurement Categories, developing effective processes and reporting to support business plans and objectives.
Requirements
- Develop and maintain effective procurement processes to support decisions by senior management.
- Manage the preparation of effective reports and presentations for various committee and leadership meetings and other such events.
- Review queries and reports and raise issues regarding trends, financial expectations and strategic plan.
- Utilize early warning system (analytical tools, etc.) to highlight critical concerns and take corrective action quickly.
- Leverage systems solutions to automate the process and reporting.
- Develop and maintain an effective, accurate and timely quote, order and payment process to support business operations.
- Educate executives and professionals on processes and procedures to ensure compliance and best practice purchasing.
- Modify processes and procedures based on feedback and changing business needs.
- Drive efficiency in the reporting, processes and procedures.
- Establish target performance levels and metrics to determine effectiveness and improvement opportunities.
- Identify and implement process improvement opportunities for tracking, controlling, and reporting on purchases and payments.
- Create and maintain process documentation, job aids, templates and calendar.
- Review reporting for issues of concern regarding trends, competitive position, performance against strategic or financial expectations, effects of changes in business environment, etc.
- Utilize analytical tools to highlight critical concerns, and summarize and present data to executive management, along with potential recommendations for improvement.
- Execute special research and analysis projects.
- Work closely with procurement and contract managers, Business Support and other critical staff functions to provide consistent data and assumptions.
- Manage the preparation of effective reports and presentations for various committee and leadership meetings and other such events.
- Ensure compliance is maintained with current procedures and internal controls to ensure they are accurate, complete and effective.
- Ensure compliance is maintained with company policies, laws, rules and regulations.
- Coach and develop team members; hire, fire, assess, discipline, document performance, recommend salary and classification changes.
- Act as advisor to staff to help meet established schedules and or resolve technical or operational problems.
