Manager, Procurement Excellence

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

Manager, Procurement Excellence

The Manager, Procurement Excellence will have direct responsibility to support Procurement strategic goals, identify and prioritize major opportunities for improved performance and optimization, and oversee the development of maturity roadmaps for implementation.

They are responsible for supporting the creation, setting and overall direction for procurement policy, risk, assurance, governance and compliance, including procurement technology and scorecard reporting.

They are responsible for promoting a data-driven culture within the Procurement organization, supporting the team with advanced analytics and overseeing the development of necessary tools for automated reporting and analytics by the team. They will develop, manage and enhance procurement tools and provide expertise on spend categories within the spend cube, benefits and adoption tracking.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Procurement Excellence    

• Centrally define uniform ways of working, provide training and define and rollout policies and procedures.
• Generate and share market insights on know-how and procurement best practice as well as supplier insights (Spend data, benefits/adoption data, market insights etc.)
• Support developing procurement maturity roadmaps on best practices.
• Aid in efficiencies through the implementation of technology (AI enabled), data and knowledge solutions (future procurement intake and contract mgmt).
• Develop, fine-tune and ensure adherence to methodology and policies around compliance.
• Lead the design and implementation/monitoring of internal procurement governance procedures/systems and comply with governance policies.

Organization and People

• Maintain and ensure compliance with Procurement policies and procedures.
• Engage with key stakeholders and BUs frequently to understand current and changing needs within procurement, at a systems and process level.
• Monitor transition and efficiency of practice across category management, sourcing and supplier management, collect best practice/templates and supplier account plans.
• Seek innovation and thought leadership in the industry through networking, market research, industry peer engagement and events.

Governance

https://careers.fourseasons.com/us/en/job/REQ10356357/Manager-Procurement-Excellence