The Company
Juniper is a full-service design, build and management company servicing the Southeast with 27 locations and over 2800 team members. From landscape architecture and planning, to landscape and irrigation construction, to long-term horticulture and agronomy management, Juniper has no gaps in the services offered to their clients.
Juniper provides a full suite of installation and maintenance services to homeowners’ associations, commercial, government, and a variety of other clients. Headquartered in Fort Myers, Juniper has 27 branches across Florida and was ranked among the 20 largest landscaping companies in the United States on the 2021 Lawn & Landscape Top 100.
The Role
With the recent operational scaling and plans for future growth, the leadership team now seeks to hire a VP of Procurement to stand up a professional sourcing organization, focused on high quality customer service and strategic vendor relationships while balancing both cost and quality. The VP of Procurement will build and oversee the strategic sourcing organization that will support business stakeholders in a more meaningful way that aligns with the company’s growth strategy. The position reports to the Chief Operations Officer and will be based in Fort Myers, FL.
Experience & Requirements
• At least ten years of sourcing and/or supply chain experience in a well-respected organization (preferably in a field-services environment)
• Expertise in procurement operations and related policies, processes, procedures, and systems. Strong understanding of inventory management, warehousing, and control policies, processes, procedures, and systems.
• Mastery of modern strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies for direct, indirect, and transportation spend categories
• Expertise in negotiations and contracting, including e-sourcing, should-cost models, leveraged agreements, multi-year contracts, complex terms and conditions, performance incentives, and management of corporate risk
• A distinguished track record of year-over-year delivery of value and implemented savings on a TCO basis
• Strong financial, quantitative, and analytical skills; embraces fact?based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling
• Strong project management skills, including stakeholder, timeline, and meeting management skills
• Able to manage internal customers; skilled at institutionalizing stakeholder communications for input and alignment
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external audiences
• Able to connect with team members at all levels of the organization, i.e., distribution and installation operations, management, executives, etc.
• A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate themselves and others