Senior Director Procurement Operations amp Accounts Payable

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Senior Director, Procurement Operations & Accounts Payable

Duties: Acts as a change champion. Leads courageously by addressing difficult issues. Works to resolve issues at the peer level and takes measures to mitigate future issues. Supports and moves new initiatives forward. Identifies current and future challenges and proposes effective solutions. Understands what issues require a “sense of urgency” and handles accordingly. Ensures confidentiality around sensitive issues. Facilitates an environment that motivates, empowers, and inspires commitment from employees. Assumes good intent with one another and work on the premise of trust. Demonstrates commitment to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. Provides clear direction. Communicates effectively and with purpose. Creates and implements methods for improving individual and team performance. Builds effective teams committed to organizational goals. Works with a spirit of collaboration, inclusion, respect and collegiality. Takes ownership of issues and demonstrates accountability. Creates an environment in which employees are recognized for their accomplishments and contributions to the success of the team. Builds competence in others through effective coaching, performance management and mentoring. Supports and encourages professional and career development for employees. Fosters a culture of support and success for new hires by utilizing effective onboarding methods. Understand the university’s mission and vision and how the department/division work activities and goals support the mission. Ensures cross-divisional support and participation. Recognizes, understands, and appreciates different roles across the institution. Identifies and calls advocacy behavior. Speaks and advocates with one common voice. Determines, effectively allocates, and coordinates resources. As a strategic partner, recommends, creates, and implements long and short-term strategic plan goals and operational plans for the three departments of POAP (Procurement & Contracts, Accounts Payable & Travel, and Distribution and Property Control Services). Ensures that the goals align with and support the overall mission of the university. Motivates and encourages commitment to achievement of strategic plans. Effectively communicates the strategic initiatives. Accomplishes strategic goals for Procurement Operations and Accounts Payable. As a member of the campus community, ensures a community-focused strategy to support the university’s mission. Identifies and anticipates community needs. Builds effective strategic alliances internally and externally. Collaborates with business partners in the achievement of university goals that support the university’s mission. Initiates and develops strong working relationships with the community. Recognizes the importance of collective strength, knowledge, and information. Actively solicits and acts upon feedback. Develops and implements solutions. Successfully negotiates through persuasion. Gains support and commitment from others. Works to find common ground and group consensus. Takes the necessary measures to solicit and influence internal and external support. Demonstrates commitment to diversity. Provides dynamic visionary leadership for the three departments in Procurement Operations & Accounts Payable, with a strong focus on oversight and guidance of the Procurement & Contracts team. Provide technical expertise and guidance of contracts team with direct functional support on vital strategic agreements and complex arrangements. Serve as key campus representative to interface and maintain strong communication and partnership with Chancellor’s Office legal team on procurement and contract matters. Builds and fosters internal relationships with the campus community, and externally with suppliers, regulatory agencies, the Chancellor’s Office and other campuses to deliver strategic support to the campus community. Identify and integrate creative solutions such as “procure to pay” (P2P), expansion of the university credit card program, strategic sourcing, eProcurement, contract management, travel management, electronic payment and vendor management. Utilizes comprehensive campus and market data to identify strategic opportunities, value-added solutions, manage strategic priorities. Develops, interprets and applies policies, guidelines and procedures and ensures compliance with all standards and regulations of the CSU and State of California.

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California State University-San Marcos
333 South Twin Oaks Valley Road
San Marcos
California
United States 92096-0001
Website : http://www.csusm.edu