描述
Work Arrangement - Hybrid– This position requires the employee to be hybrid 3x per week on-site.
What You’ll Do
Leadership and Team Management
- Supervise, monitor, coach, and develop employees across different locations while building an effective global team.
- Provide technical leadership to the team and collaborate with multifunctional teams to achieve business targets.
- Identify and lead staffing initiatives for the work team.
- Conduct regularly scheduled team meetings and communicate GM policies, procedures, leadership messages, and safety expectations.
- Communicate the functional vision and strategy, including preparing and delivering presentations when required.
- Ensure employees complete all mandatory GM training and any additional training related to their functional responsibilities.
- Support employees’ career development goals and develop initiatives that improve team capability and capacity.
- Assign and balance workloads for direct reports and establish individual and team priorities.
- Evaluate employee performance and behaviors, provide candid and constructive feedback, and facilitate performance interventions when necessary.
- Recognize employee contributions formally and informally, provide timely and consistent feedback, and participate in compensation planning and administration.
Purchasing, Systems, and Supplier Management
- Serve as the indirect purchasing lead for new systems implementations, including SAP and SAP S/4HANA.
- Act as the focal point for Conduent performance in Brazil.
- Manage supplier relationships and operational performance.
- Optimize the supplier footprint to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and value.
- Interface with internal stakeholders to clarify prerequisites, align expectations, and drive cost-reduction initiatives.
- Analyze and apply appropriate purchasing and cost-management tools, including:
- Cost models and benchmarking.
- Global competitive sourcing.
- Value-chain analysis.
- Supplier negotiations.
- Engineering-change cost containment.
- Technical cost reduction.
- Part and system reuse.
Risk Management, Problem Solving, and Execution
- Identify risks and communicate them clearly and appropriately to the relevant stakeholders.
- Identify problems and update or modify work methods in complex situations, including when defined procedures are not available.
- Lead the team through new methods and initiatives in situations where procedures have not yet been established.
- Influence stakeholders across the organization to adopt new concepts, practices, and approaches.
- Remove roadblocks and resolve potential issues, complaints, and operational challenges.
- Review and approve employee work schedules, overtime, expenses, and other work-related records.
- Promote GM values and make customer-focused decisions.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, coaching, and developing employees.
- Ability to lead teams across multiple locations and collaborate effectively in a global environment.
- Experience in indirect purchasing, procurement operations, supplier management, or a related function.
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, including the ability to present vision, strategy, risks, and recommendations clearly.
- Ability to identify risks, solve complex problems, remove roadblocks, and make sound business decisions.
- Experience managing priorities, assigning workloads, monitoring performance, and developing team capability.
- Ability to influence others and drive the adoption of new concepts, practices, processes, and systems.
- Strong negotiation, analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work effectively with multifunctional teams and manage competing priorities.
- Commitment to GM values, customer focus, safety, integrity, and inclusion.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience leading or supporting SAP or SAP S/4HANA implementations.
- Experience managing indirect purchasing teams or global procurement operations.
- Experience with Conduent performance management or outsourced service-provider governance in Brazil.
- Experience using cost models, benchmarking, competitive sourcing, value-chain analysis, supplier negotiations, technical cost reduction, engineering-change cost containment, or part and system reuse.
- Experience optimizing supplier footprints and delivering measurable cost reductions.
- Experience leading teams through organizational change, new methods, or initiatives without established procedures.
- Experience with compensation planning, employee development programs, and performance-management processes.
- Experience working in a multinational or automotive environment.
- Fluency in English and Portuguese.
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Aménagements (É.-U. et Canada)
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