Location:
Secaucus, New JerseyJob Summary:The Procurement Manager will specialize in implementing cost-effective purchases of all Non-Merchandise goods and services across a variety of departments and products/services.
Responsibilities:
Key Accountabilities:
- Collaborate with finance, business and other key stakeholders to help achieve/realize planned benefits
- Evaluate, review, validate and approve project charters in collaboration with finance
- Validate addressable spend of prospective projects
- Inform bi-monthly operating expense and capital expenditure forecasts based upon results of procurement activities
- Coordinate with finance and business in identifying and quantifying bottoms-up benefits opportunities based upon Procurement Roadmap
- Detailed review of spend data by type (e.g. Distribution, Professional Fees, etc.) and department (e.g. Advertising, IT, etc.) in support of keep Procurement Roadmap current and forward-looking
- Validate spend classification of non-merchandise spend through discussions with departmental finance partners
- Building and maintaining long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
- Performing risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements.
- Controlling the procurement budget and promoting a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.
- Within Contracts Tracker, update and revise various project attributes including status, timing of implementation and accounting treatment.
- Create procedures for collecting and reporting key metrics that will reduce overall expenses.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration or accounting
- 5-7 years of experience in procurement or purchasing
Skills and Behaviors
- Strong understanding of procurement and in-depth knowledge of preparing and reviewing contracts and invoicing,
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Management and leadership skills.
- Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and work in a fast paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint).
What We Do
The Children’s Place is the largest pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer in North America. The Company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells and licenses to sell fashionable, high-quality merchandise at value prices, primarily under the proprietary “The Children’s Place”, "Place" and "Baby Place" brand names. As of November 3, 2018, the Company operated 988 stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, an online store at www.childrensplace.com, and had 211 international points of distribution open and operated by its eight franchise partners in 20 countries.
