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As the Director of Procurement Policy and Compliance, you will own the development, implementation, and oversight of global procurement policies and compliance frameworks. This role ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, drives supplier governance, and supports strategic sourcing initiatives across the organization.
This job is with our Procurement teams. They are responsible for sourcing and purchasing goods, services, or raw materials from vendors and suppliers.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead cross-functional programs end-to-end. Facilitate the development of a program timeline.
- Work to ensure all tasks remain on schedule, that issues are solved and that the program is running successfully.
- Deliver impactful results through crafting, delivering, and partnering with internal procurement organization and other internal key functions (finance, controllership, commercial, compliance).
- Identify potential business risks and anticipated points of resistance and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns following an agreed governance set up.
- Present to senior / executive level oversight of the policy programs across Global Procurement and the wider CBRE organization.
- Develop and implement distinctive approach, behavior, and culture to achieve high work performance by adoption and implementation of value interventions, technology platforms, tools, and methodologies to promote and instill high sense of commitment, ownership and integrity within the team.
- Share best practices across the regions and work to drive, implement and embed new tools, process to ensure increase in maturity of a region.
- Conduct stakeholder communications to leadership team within & outside global procurement through dashboards and reporting.
- Apply a robust knowledge of multiple disciplines, the business, and key drivers which impact departmental and cross-functional performance.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Persuade managers and other colleagues to take action while being guided by the organization’s functional business plans. Negotiate with external partners, vendors, and customers of divergent interests to reach a common goal.
- Identify and solve multi-dimensional, complex, operational, and organizational problems using the appropriate resources within or outside the department.
What You’ll Need:
To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred with 8-12 years of proven experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. C.P.M., C.P.S.M. or N.A.C.M. certifications or eligibility, required.
- Solid understanding of procurement systems and tools (e.g., Coupa, Ariba).
- Excellent leadership, negotiation, and analytical skills.
- Professional certifications such as C.P.M., C.P.S.M. preferred.
- Ability to lead the exchange of critical, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations, and handle problems.
- Leadership skills to set, lead and achieve targets with a direct impact on multiple department results within a function.
- Expert organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
- Sophisticated math skills. Ability to calculate mildly complex figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.
Source: CBRE Career Page
