Who we are...
Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities.
Culture
Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.
Essential Responsibilities:
Contract Negotiation and Management
- Provides team leadership as first point of contact with all suppliers by negotiating, reviewing, and managing contracts for the procurement of goods, various services, and capital equipment worldwide.
- Ensure all supplier contracts meet legal and regulatory requirements and align with company policies thru effective negotiations with suppliers and in-house legal teams
Operations Management
- Manages all production planning, inventory control, purchasing, cost management and productivity activities related to purchased finished goods.
- Develop, document and implement efficient processes focused on optimizing business operations and targeted at achieving strategic goals
- Develop and implement a data-management systems that aligns with functional areas and team responsibilities via individual and team metrics regarding health & performance of the organization.
- Ability to set and achieve goals for team and suppliers based upon continuous improvement projects that provides annual cost savings back to the business.
Strategic Leadership
- Ability to operate in an environment of change, establish priorities, align team priorities and ensure optimal team performance.
- Provide strategic leadership within a network of global suppliers focused on optimizing fulfillment, pricing, quality and business process to align with corporate & industry best practices.
- Create and optimize purchasing strategies to align with corporate objectives; manage to defined budgets, forecasts, policies, service levels, and quality assurance targets.
- Determine current and future business needs and translate these into global requirements with clear controls, documented process flows, and best-in-class quality standards.
- Extensive experience in all aspects of vendor (goods and services) management, regarding pricing & product costing, metrics, delivery performance and quality management.
- Develops and manages programs to optimize raw materials flow and inventory turns.
- Regarded as an industry expert pertaining to ERP skills, understanding, training to best practices and optimization.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of procurement, strategic purchasing, and sourcing with global experience
- 5+ years with a degree and certification in related field.
- Strong interpersonal skills, Leadership qualities, project management, team building, managing remote teams.
- Deep understanding of ERP management systems; Oracle, SAP, Great Plains, Service Now preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in supplier performance management practices and cost management.
- Proven experience conducting cost-benefit analysis, master service agreements and managing contract manufacturers.
- Demonstrated team and project leadership.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Verra Mobility Values
An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
- Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
- Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
- Lead with Grace. We express humility and compassion, and we are authentic and candid. Our employees demonstrate self-awareness, care for others, instill trust, and communicate effectively.
- Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.
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Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.