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Position Description

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Supply Chain, the Vice President of Planning and Procurement will be responsible for all aspects of inventory management as well as supply management activities for various areas of spend within categories, both direct and indirect. The role is critical in maximizing savings with bottom line impact, including year-over-year productivity improvements, while creating strategic vendor relationships that balance improving product quality and vendor service levels. This role will partner cross functionally across all segments of the business; locally as well as globally to leverage enterprise scale, thought leadership and strategic relationships.

Responsibilities

This leader will be a champion for the organizations responsible business framework which is supported by two key pillars

The Vice President of Planning and Procurement serves as a senior leader in the development and execution of business processes within Safelite’s Oracle ERP that include but aren’t limited to strategic sourcing, contract management, vendor management, procure to pay, supplier diversity as well as sustainability.

Sustainable products and services Investing in people and society

Safelite Group has been growing rapidly. To support this growth moving into the future, a culture of creating a sustainable value chain and talent diversity are key areas of focus for the organization. This individual will be essential in contributing to Safelite’s “People Powered, Customer Driven” mentality, ensuring diversity of thought across all levels within the organization to best support internal and external stakeholders alike. The ideal candidate will be someone who understands the importance of, and is dedicated to, the front-line associates, while operating in a multi-faceted global environment.

Position Location: Columbus, OH

Safelite Group is one of America's most recognized premier service brands, delivering unrivalled automotive glass repair, replacement and claims management services generating annual revenues nearly $3.0 billion. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, the company operates more than 8,000 MobileGlassShops and nearly 800 stores in all 50 states, with approximately 15,000 associates nationwide. Safelite continues to expand and has ambitions to grow more than 50% in the next 4 years.

Safelite’s Operations Are Divided Into Three Main Business Units

Originally founded in 1947, Safelite is part of Belron, a $5 billion auto glass repair company based in London, England with operations in 35 countries worldwide.

Safelite Fulfillment: Operating as Safelite AutoGlass, this segment offers a range of auto glass fulfillment services, most commonly windshield and window repairs and replacements. This segment serves more than six million customers a year and is available to 97% of US drivers across all 50 states. If Safelite’s 800 shop locations aren’t enough, they also offer mobile services where you can make an appointment and Safelite will come to you!
Safelite Solutions: This segment offers a variety of claims management services as a third-party administrator for claims from 175 different insurance and fleet companies. Safelite Solutions manages 9,000 affiliate providers, has five national contact centers, and serves more than four million customers annually.
Service AutoGlass: This segment operates as a national provider of wholesale vehicle glass products, including glass, materials and tools. The company leverages their supply chain and 93 warehouses and distribution centers nationwide to sell these products to other vehicle glass companies.

As an organization, Safelite exists to make a difference and bring unexpected happiness to people’s everyday lives by making their services as simple, convenient and stress-free as possible. This is reflected in the company’s “People Powered, Customer Driven” strategic imperatives. The organization recognizes its frontline associates are the face of the brand and the primary driver of customer satisfaction. As a result, the company embraces a people-first culture focused on an exceptional associate experience.

To ensure that giving back remains a priority, Safelite has made a promise to donate at least 1% of annual profits yearly. The official giving arm of the company is the Safelite AutoGlass Foundation, which was founded in 2005. This organization supports a variety of causes, charities and giving initiatives that contribute to family well-being in communities. In addition, the organization gives all employees time off each year to volunteer. The company also maintains partnerships with Ohio State Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, and Columbus Blue Jackets and participates in community involvement with each. As a leader in monitoring their environmental footprint, Safelite has recycled over eighteen million windshields since 2012 and increases their recycling efforts each year.

Key Accountabilities

Lead new product development processes to assure timely acquisition of materials to support product launches.
Maintain compliance with all regulatory requirements and ethical standards related to procurement.
Lead strategic planning efforts for sourcing around operations strategic plan and sales and operations planning. objectives that help support best-in-class supply chain execution.
Drives annual productivity improvements in each spend category.
Develops an expertise in the category spend categories within each business unit.
Implement a sustainable sourcing and procurement strategy with related staffing and enterprise-wide processes to gain alignment with critical suppliers.
Effectively address and steer risk management by staying current with evolving quality factors as product complexity increases.
Develops a world class supplier diversity program in coordination with clients and internal senior leadership.
Audit existing workflow and processes, establish baseline performance metrics and innovate and streamline at every turn.
Lead the development of vendor relationships, programs, integrations, tooling , and monitoring to ensure real-time data streams and service level agreement and costs targets are met
Develop sales, margin, and inventory productivity targets in partnership with Category Manager, both pre-season and in-season
Lead the inventory management function which includes achieving targeted turnover of product to maximize cash utilization and adjust inventory needs to support new product and service goals of the organization, and other related activities.
Teach, coach and mentor the Category Management teams to become proficient in advanced procurement concepts such as Strategic Sourcing, Make/Buy Decision Process, Sales / Operations Planning, Supplier Agility, and Procurement Analytics.
Develops, coaches, and mentors’ key talent to build a world-class procurement organization.
Monitors the effectiveness of onboarding and training programs for new and existing employees.

Year One Success Factors

Learn the business by completing an extensive onboarding process.
Earn the trust, confidence, and endorsement of key leaders as a colleague, advisor, and collaborative leader.
Successfully manage change through global Oracle ERP implementation as well as warehouse management and order management system deployments throughout the network
Create and deploy supplier risk mitigation strategies

Professional & Cultural Characteristics

Proven leader and subject matter expert who creates inventory management and supplier strategies that directly align with and support overall business strategies.
- Sees beyond the current philosophies and processes, continuously challenging the status quo and providing recommendations that drive improved performance.
- Excellent relationship building and influence by anticipating the needs of stakeholders and asking the right questions.
- Keen sense of urgency and ability to keep pace in a fast-moving environment.
- Strategic thinker, yet practical applicator who designs and delivers people programs through the eyes of internal customers.
- Experience with implementation and use of technologies that enable improved inventory visibility, quality alerts, actions, and compliance.

Qualifications/Requirements

15+ years of progressive procurement and inventory management leadership experience
Experience with Oracle ERP is a plus
Demonstrated purchasing organizational transformation experience; has taken a global purchasing organization and transformed it into a best-in-class strategic sourcing team that provided new competitive advantages
Strong commercial, investigation, strategic and analytical skills.
Demonstrated ability to drive significant, positive impact across a large-scale operating company.
Experience with a growth organization focused on culture and engagement.
Experience in leading national or global initiatives with heavy organizational change management requirements.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally

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Diversity: Safelite welcomes everyone. We value our diverse workforce and suppliers, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Learn more at Safelite.com/Careers.

Benefit amounts are estimates only. Actual values will depend on benefit elections during enrollment.

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