Entergy

Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (Generation)

LocationNew Orleans, LA
Job Typefull_time

About This Job

Work Place Flexibility:

Onsite

Legal Entity:

Entergy Services, LLC

Job Summary/Purpose

The Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (Generation), supporting Entergy’s Power Development organization, serves as an enterprise wide, strategic procurement leader responsible for developing and enabling Entergy’s $2.5B in materials and services required for generation. This role is responsible for the strategic sourcing of categories that are on the critical path to Entergy’s growth success, as well as the oversight of large-scale projects and/or strategic initiatives spanning the Power Development organization.

This Director is a key member of the Chief Supply Officer’s leadership team, and partners across the enterprise with senior leaders on a regular basis to develop category requirements, build market intelligence, and execute strategic framework agreements for categories critical to Entergy’s growth strategy.

The Director leads a team of sourcing professionals, from individual contributors to senior leaders, to develop & execute on strategies and implement procurement plans in support of the Company’s business objectives.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Safety: Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team and suppliers prioritize safety.
Category Management: Responsible for the development of category strategies including forecasting category demand and identifying savings goals; align strategies with enterprise priorities around savings, local spend, sustainability, and risk.
Strategic Sourcing: Establish strategic sourcing methodology to be utilized extensively to maximize value through customized, multi-year sourcing strategies, while managing risk.
Partnership & Performance: Expected to work as a partner with functional business leadership to fully understand the business context, priorities, and challenges. Leverages and synthesizes support from functional business leadership to execute on strategic business plans.
Service Orientation: Engage with enterprise to develop customer specific solutions that achieve acceptable outcomes, align with business plans, and provides recommendations for socialization strategies that support customer objectives and growth objectives around affordability, reliability, and sustainability.
Vendor Management & Oversight: Accountable for vendor engagement; vendor performance; vendor risk; strategic alliance management; and contract governance.
Culture: Operate with the highest ethical standards and in full compliance with internal controls, policies, procedures, regulations, and laws. Accountable through supply base partners to execute Entergy’s supplier engagement, development & local spend objectives.
People Leadership: Ensure the right Procurement and Supply Chain talent is recruited, developed, retained, and deployed in line with key business priorities. Mentor and coach staff.
Continuous Improvement: Enable a workforce-driven continuous improvement culture to achieve premier financial and operational results. As a leader, enable time & resources to execute continuous improvement opportunities. Participate, engage, and utilize continuous improvement tools, frameworks, principles, and professional training as a standard.
Incident Response: Perform incident response/storm duties as assigned.


Minimum Requirements

Minimum

education

required for this position:

Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, supply chain management, engineering, finance, or another related technical discipline

In lieu of a degree, min of 15 years’ experience in procurement or supply chain, preferably in a leadership role, or relevant work experience.
Master’s Degree preferred


Minimum Experience Required For The Position

Minimum 5+ years of supervisory or related leadership experience required.
Minimum 5+ years of sourcing, negotiating and contracting or supply chain experience required.
Certification preferred: Professional in Procurement & Supply Chain e.g. CPSM; CPSD.

Required

Minimum

knowledge, skills, and abilities

required of the position:

Industry/role specific Deep experience in sourcing, negotiating and contracting optimally for the categories covered by role. Broad knowledge of all facets of the utility industry with a focus on new generation, project management, budget and cost management disciplines, safety, quality, compliance and regulation.

Financial acumen Demonstrated bias towards action to capture savings and identify additional savings opportunities. Strong financial acumen including effective management of departmental budget.
Leadership Maintains a work environment and develops staff who act with a focus on the future, understand what makes customers more successful, are adaptable, overcome resistance to change and execute with a sense of urgency.
Risk management and internal controls Understanding of risk management principals as it relates to developing and executing customer strategies. Understanding of critical internal controls needed to comply with compliance standards.
Stakeholder management Ability to develop relationships with key business leaders. Seasoned experience influencing internal and external stakeholders with skill and diplomacy.
Execution managing and allocating financial and people resources to execute operational and business plans.
Client focus Determines strategic business direction to best meet clients’ evolving needs. Ensures continued service excellence by evaluating and analyzing departmental decisions that impact ability to meet client needs.

Any Certificates, Licenses, Etc. Required Of The Position

N/A

Primary Location:

Louisiana- Louisiana : New Orleans || Texas : The Woodlands

Job Function

: Professional

FLSA Status Relocation Option:

No Relocation Offered

Union description/code

: Non-Bargaining

Number of Openings

: 1

Req ID:

119491

Travel Percentage

:25% to 50%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement:

The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility:

Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click

here

and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Equal Opportunity

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

Working Conditions

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note:

Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.

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