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The department ensures the financial health and sustainability of the firm, enabling us to deliver exceptional legal services to our clients worldwide.  \nRole Overview  \nThe Associate Director - Procurement is a leader of the firm's global procurement function. This role is responsible for direct management of the Procurement team and provides support and guidance to those personnel, outside of the procurement function, who are involved in contracting, buying, and other spend activities. This role drives the procurement function to maturity, executes on the transformation of the function, drives spend optimization , and is viewed as a strategic business partner of the firm. The Procurement function encompasses team members in procurement operations, strategic sourcing/category management, contracts administration , and asset management (physical goods) roles.  \nA key responsibility of this role includes negotiating more significant commercial contracts while interacting with the firm's general counsel office and vendor risk management function to ensure the firm's interest are covered in such negotiated agreements. This role works closely with the Director of Global Procurement & Expense Management and other senior leaders to make recommendations for the firm to identify, define, develop, and implement policies, procedures, and strategies that are consistent with procurement best practices and the established goals and objectives of the firm.  \nEssential Duties and Key Responsibilities  \n“Essential duties” are those that an individual must be able to perform with or without reasonable accommodation.  \n1. Ensures all procurement developments and procedures are designed and created to support firm strategy , reduce spend, and provide effective process and systems to support contracting and buying activities  \n2. Provides strategic direction and support to the firm regarding the following areas: supplier and  \nrisk management, contract negotiation, procurement operations (procure-to-pay), category management / strategic sourcing , contracts administration, asset management , and analytics regarding these areas  \n3. Leads firm wide procurement related projects to completion  \n4. Builds and sustains a high-performing procurement organization and team  \n5. Communicates procurement activities and vision/roadmap to all relevant stakeholders in the organization on a regular basis  \n6. Develops and manages a vendor management program in partnership with business  \nstakeholders, the vendor risk management function , and a global accounts payable team  \n7. Confirms and communicates vision and strategic direction; provides business context, coaching , and direction to enable the team to meet its performance targets  \n8. Stays abreast of current and new procurement related tools, technologies, and market trends as they relate and are relevant to the firm  \n9. Ensures that the function maintains high levels of client service to the attorney and staff populations; develops and maintains key performance indicators to measure effectiveness of the function; maintains a continuous review of procedures to bring about improvements; maximizesuse of technology and improves processes; acts as a lead resource for information as well as the interpretation of accounting policies and procedures  \n10. Manages, trains, and coaches the procurement team and other buying/contracting parties in the firm; leads the team in their professional and career development endeavors; acts as a lead resource for procurement and contract negotiation questions, issues, developmen","cbCaiawJclXzO4k1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiawJclXzO4k1","pdf",217382,"English","# Department / Subdepartment Overview\n# Role Overview\n# Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities\n## Essential Duties\n# Knowledge, Skills & Abilities","[{\"question\":\"What does the Associate Director - Procurement manage?\",\"answer\":\"The role directly manages the Procurement team and provides support and guidance to stakeholders involved in contracting, buying, and other spend activities.\"},{\"question\":\"Which activities are central to contract and vendor risk collaboration?\",\"answer\":\"The role negotiates significant commercial contracts while coordinating with general counsel and vendor risk management to ensure the firm’s interests are covered.\"},{\"question\":\"What performance and improvement mechanisms does the role drive?\",\"answer\":\"The role builds KPIs to measure effectiveness, maintains continuous review of procedures for improvement, maximizes use of technology, and improves processes while ensuring strong client service levels.\"}]","Associate Director - Procurement | PDF",1789364475]