Associate Director, Operational Procurement

General Summary
The Associate Director of Operational Procurement leads key operational procurement activities that ensure material availability, supply continuity, and efficient business operations. This role requires experience in procurement operations, raw material planning, systems and process knowledge, and team leadership experience. This leader will partner closely with Ops Leadership in Supply Chain, Strategic Procurement, Logistics, and leadership in our Accounts Payable and IT teams to drive continuous process improvement across the procurement organization.

A successful candidate will bring hands-on expertise managing direct and indirect procurement processes and systems, including purchasing, material planning, inventory optimization, shortage mitigation, and supplier enablement. Experience working with SAP, Coupa, MRP, and procure-to-pay systems is highly desired.

 Specific Duties and Responsibilities
•    Develop and implement processes for meeting finished goods and raw materials forecast requirements, managing inventory levels, and optimizing ordering cycles across direct and indirect categories to ensure material and service availability. *
•    Support, lead, and develop the Operational Procurement team, provide resources and guidance, ensuring effective task allocation and quality of work, and report on progress and productivity; communicate and resolve escalations as required. *
•    Design and apply Operational Procurement policies, practices, standards, and procedures, ensuring they are managed, maintained, adhered to, and align with Penumbra values and processes. *
•    Understand ERP, MRP, P2P, and analytics systems used for executing and monitoring raw material planning, and order management areas. Identify opportunities to improve procurement practices and drive Operational Procurement compliance across standardized practices. *
•    Support the design, documentation and execution of raw material forecasting and order management processes for key suppliers and critical components, services, sub-contracting, and indirect spend. *
•    Create, document, and implement supplier capacity assessments and internal requirement analysis and work with Strategic Procurement, engineering, quality, and production to solve key issues with suppliers. *
•    Identify strategies to mitigate risks including service and component supply issues to mitigate business impact. *
•    Support procurement stability for new products transitioning from development to commercialization. *
•    Identify trends and opportunities for procurement through cross-functional engagement and industry involvement that continuously drives insights into best practices and improvement opportunities. * •    Develop and implement strategies to coordinate with Strategic Procurement, Production, Planning, Quality, AP/Finance, and other business partners to proactively remove barriers. * •    Coordinate with managers to ensure compliance to procurement systems and practices; assign projects and tasks; monitor quality and performance; forecast resource needs; and account for expenses. * •    Select, manage, train, and develop staff. Establish objectives and assignments and provide ongoing feedback through performance reviews and development plans.  •    Professionally engage with both internal/external parties to communicate status and performance across various levels. * •    Adhere to the Company’s Quality Management System (QMS) as well as domestic and global quality system regulations, standards, and procedures. * •    Understand relevant security, privacy, and compliance principles and adhere to the regulations, standards, and procedures that are applicable to the Company. •    Ensure other members of the department follow the QMS, regulations, standards, and procedures. * •    Perform other work-related duties as assigned. *Indicates an essential function of the role.