Strategic Buyer, Indirect Materials - Hybrid - #1399360

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

Working At Dentsply Sirona You Are Able To

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.

Dentsply Sirona is looking for a Strategic Buyer to work out of one of its North America Site Locations, which include Waltham MA, Milford DE, York PA, Richardson TX, Johnson City TN or Sarasota FL.

The Strategic Buyer is responsible to support multiple REGIONAL Indirect categories/projects for specific Sites in a Region cross functionally and collaborating with different functions like MRO, Facilities, Capital Equipment, Manufacturing support, etc. Partners with regional and global category management to ensure a successful implementation of global or regional led strategies and drive compliance to preferred supply base and purchasing channels. The role is responsible to ensure and continuously improve costs, quality and service level / delivery for all local deliverables in multiple categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports in development and implementing global and regional category strategies, projects, objectives, processes, methods and policies across the Sites.
• Manage North American CapEx spend as it comes to requests up to $250k. Above $250k Strategic Buyer will reach out to Regional Sourcing Leader for guidance.
• Work with operational buyers and stakeholders to drive compliance to preferred supply base (in line with global or regional strategies) and purchasing channels to realize savings targets within the Sites/Region.
• Identify savings potentials and support other to meet the forecasting and savings reporting.
• Responsible for supplier relationships within the regional procurement categories.
• Manage escalations from internal stakeholders.
• All other duties as assigned.
  
  

Accountabilities

• First point of contact for internal stakeholders on-site
• Support the implementation of global and regional procurement initiatives/strategies.
• Support regional RFPs.
• Guides/supports the tactical buying for Indirect Materials & Services
• Collaborates with COE team to implement the Procurement processes & compliance requirements across the Sites.
• Cooperation and support of internal stakeholders at projects, request proposals and analyze offers.
• Supplier selection partnering with relevant stakeholders, meeting the functional requirements.
• Supplier Relationship Management.
• Integrate & harmonize agreed procurement strategies & methods across the sites and educate stakeholders on these.
• Annual procurement targets for categories in alignment with global/regional targets (cost & savings, supplier quality, etc.)
• Support Regional Sourcing Leaders with regular updates to ensure effective communication of cost saving activities (Actual v’s target)
• Negotiate and create contracts/SOWs for Regional categories.
• Supports SOX and other auditing test preparations. Ensures data protection requirements are fulfilled.
  
  

Parameters for Success

Key Metric

• Total Procurement Savings (P&L , Cash, Cost Avoidance)
• Compliance to the preferred supply base
  
  

Financial Targets

• Cost reduction – Working Capital, P&L impact / Cash / Cost avoidance
• Support forecasting and reporting Savings for the Sites/Region
  
  

Key Leadership Behaviors

• Ability to identify and drive cost improvement initiatives
• Effectively lead and support change with stakeholders.
• Strong relationship building
• Team work and collaboration.
• Multi cultural mind set.
  
  

Typical Background

Education / Certifications /Licensing

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  

Experience

• 5-7 years professional experience in purchasing
• Ability to understand and red line contracts to protect business continually, identifying written and unwritten risk within terms and conditions of proposals
• Indirecting Material purchasing preferred
  
  

Key Required Skills, Knowledge And Capabilities

• Solutions driven
• Strong relationship building and leading by influence skills
• Ability to identify and lead cost improvement initiatives.
• Multi-cultural mind set
• Strong business partnering skills and business acumen.
• Analytical, business finance capability technical / industry knowledge.
• Independent, structured, target and result-oriented working method
• Assertiveness and ambition to solve demanding tasks
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Language skills (English fluent in written and spoken). Other languages welcomed.
  
  

This role come with a compensation range of $70,000 to $85,000 depending on various factors such as location, experience, education, etc.

DentsplySirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in DentsplySirona.

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