General Purchasing Sr. Manager - IT & Marketing

Position Overview: The Senior Manager IT & Marketing in the General Purchasing group manages over $225 million of spend supporting the IT, Marketing, HR and Defense business units, including the Travel category.
This manager is responsible for managing a group of 5 employees. This position will be responsible for all aspects of General Purchasing with the goal of adding significant value to the company's bottom line and ensuring compliance with policy. The candidate will serve as an internal consultant in the areas of purchasing systems, processes, and policies and will regularly report progress of KPI goals to Executive Leadership. The successful candidate will understand, analyze, forecast, communicate, strategize, and act on supplier purchases in the IT & Marketing group as well as drive collaboration opportunities with VW.
The successful candidate will utilize PowerBI, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, Ivalua and Globe systems to ensure performance and cost visibility for the group. Responsibilities:

• Supports and ensures that general purchasing functions, such as RFI, RFP, supplier negotiations, cost analysis, vendor selection and contracting are completed
• Provides approvals within the Ivaula and PeopleSoft systems to ensure corporate purchasing processes and policies are followed
• Interacts directly with various internal stakeholders at all levels within Navistar and outside suppliers.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 10 years of materials management or supply chain experience
• At least 4 years of management experience

OR

• Master’s degree
• At least 8 years of materials management or supply chain experience
• At least 4 years of management experience

OR

• At least 12 years of materials management or supply chain experience
• At least 4 years of management experience

Additional Requirements:

• Qualified candidates, excluding current Navistar employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. Navistar does not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)

Desired Skills:

• Develop strategies to improve cost structures
• Ability to prepare and deliver business presentations to executive leadership and peers
• Significant negotiating experience
• Demonstrated record of success with formal and informal leadership
• Positive Attitude, Ethics and Values which support our company’s values, and a healthy, high performance culture
• Project/Program management experience
• Ability to analyze product costs and understand underlying cost drivers
• Ability to take responsibility for multiple projects to achieve goals and meet deadlines
• Demonstrate ability to formulate, communicate, and implement short and long-term strategies for area of responsibility
• Experience in participating and managing cross-functional teams
• Self-starter, strong work ethic and project management experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to travel 10%

Company Overview: Navistar is a purpose-driven company, reimagining how to deliver what matters to create more cohesive relationships, build higher-performing teams and find solutions where others don't.
Navistar is the Lisle, Illinois-based parent company of International® brand commercial trucks and engines, IC Bus® brand school and commercial buses, all-makes OnCommand® Connection advanced connectivity services, aftermarket parts brands Fleetrite®, ReNEWed® and Diamond Advantage® and Brazilian manufacturer of engines and gensets MWM Motores Diesel e Geradores.
With a history of innovation dating back to 1831, Navistar has more than 12,000 employees worldwide and is part of TRATON SE, a global champion of the truck and transport services industry. Accelerating the Impact of Sustainable Mobility: Visit us at www.Navistar.com to discover more about our organization
Navistar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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