Alterra Mountain Company is seeking a data-driven, strategic Procurement Director with a proven track record of driving procurement interventions and value through senior leader influencing, data driven analysis, and problem-solving solutions that gain acceptance of individual profit centers.

• Secures buy-in at all levels of the organization. Communicates vision, purpose, and savings opportunities to senior management of resorts, functions, and daily users. Ensures clear communication of goals, roles, responsibilities, and creates organizational unity surrounding procurement. Links with rest of Shared Services Procurement team to ensure needs understood and built into strategies.
• Uses best practices and tools to identify value opportunities within the business and across categories. Develops and executes procurement strategies. Assesses baseline spending data and prepares, and executes, sourcing and negotiation strategies to achieve savings and efficiencies. Reports savings by resort and function that sum to the enterprise level.
• Assesses organizational barriers to success, evaluates within Matrix, and determines how to capitalize for Alterra. Provides direction and leadership concerning implementation, pace, impact to Alterra/resorts, and opportunities within the matrix.
• Assesses organizational barriers to success, evaluates within Matrix, and determines how to capitalize for Alterra. Provides direction and leadership concerning implementation, pace, impact to Alterra/resorts, and opportunities within the matrix.
• Develops communications/change management strategies by identifying target customers, users, vendors, and support staff to communication vision, purpose, and savings opportunities to overcome issues associated with change.
• Conducts sourcing. Develops inquiries and negotiation plans. Aligns success criteria to make supplier decisions. Analyzes vendor bids, negotiates enterprise wide national/global agreements. Reviews data and works with subject matter experts to determine which vendor(s) best meets Alterra’s requirements. Selects the vendors that meet and fit all of Alterra’s requirements, including price, terms, delivery, quality, etc. Implements contracts.
• Serves as a link between the business teams and the Shared Services Procurement team. Ensures clear understanding of business needs. Develops category sourcing strategies relevant for the business. Helps communicate and implement the strategies with business teams.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in Procurement, particularly in indirect categories like food & beverage, lodging, professional services, capital, facilities, shared services, and retail.
• Experience in Procurement process re-design.
• Proven track record of leading Procurement interventions through strong analysis, robust strategy creation, influencing senior leaders and obtaining excellent results.
• Demonstrated expertise in all Procurement processes. Ability to apply, and tailor, as appropriate for the specific business circumstances.

Skills

• Excellent communication and senior leader engagement
• Able to gain commitment to ideas and new ways of working
• Objective mindset grounded in strong analytics
• Entrepreneurial and innovative. Demonstrated change agent
• Action oriented and willing to get hands dirty
• Builds trust
• Excellent presentation, Excel, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with cross-functional teams

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business or related field, or equivalent work experience