Director, Supplier Performance – Relationship Management

🕒 June 14

⛰️ Colorado, Illinois, +3 more states – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $131.8k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Cushman & Wakefield

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1917

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Healthcare • Construction

Cushman & Wakefield is a global leader in commercial real estate services, providing a wide range of services including agency leasing, asset services, capital markets, global occupier services, project and development services, tenant representation, and valuation and advisory for various industries such as logistics and industrial, multifamily, retail, life sciences, data centers, and healthcare. The company is committed to driving forward for clients, colleagues, and communities with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as environmental, social, and governance principles. Operating in over 60 countries with 52,000 professionals, Cushman & Wakefield consistently delivers insights and research, such as market reports and sustainability efforts.

📋 Description

• Conduct comprehensive benchmarking of SPRM leading practices across CRE, IFM, and adjacent sectors, identifying best-in-class methodologies for preferred supplier program performance scorecard design, and relationship governance. • Shape and execute the multi-year strategy for SPRM across regional and operational teams. • Successfully build a globally aligned SPRM program, reduce regional fragmentation, closing category ownership gaps, and increasing consistent supplier performance and client value delivery. • Drive enterprise-wide change management initiatives, resulting in high stakeholder engagement, rapid adoption of new processes, and a culture of continuous improvement. • Act as the organization’s leading expert on supplier performance methodologies and value-based supplier management. • Create and develop governance structure across business lines and regions for SPRM; embed supplier inclusion for impact, responsible sourcing, and regulatory obligations into the SPRM framework. • Equip field and regional teams with practical playbooks, training, templates, and decision-support tools to enhance day-to-day supplier management; influence the entire supplier performance and relationship management ecosystem to land target SPRM outcome. • Collaborate with category leaders to interpret supplier performance trends and identify opportunities to elevate strategic partners to preferred or address underperformance in the preferred supplier network.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business, Engineering, or related field is required; Master’s degree preferred. • 10+ years of experience in global Procurement, Vendor Management, and Supplier Relationship Management. • Deep understanding of indirect procurement, with category literacy across IFM / facilities management, professional services, and technology preferred; experience in the commercial real estate, facilities management, or real estate services sector is a strong advantage. • 5+ years of experience in a senior leadership role with SPRM-related program or function ownership • Proven leadership experience in procurement or with a track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives. • Demonstrated ability to modernize functions through technology enablement, process redesign, and team development at scale, ideally in a global, complex, multi-category environment. • Deep understanding of supplier governance frameworks, scorecards, strategic business reviews, and preferred supplier network development. • Proven experience managing supplier relationships at the executive tier, including structuring and leading Executive BRs and joint business planning processes. • Strong command of supplier risk management principles and their integration into procurement governance — experience working alongside or within a Risk or Compliance function is highly valued.

🏖️ Benefits

• health, vision, and dental insurance • flexible spending accounts • health savings accounts • retirement savings plans • life and disability insurance programs • paid and unpaid time away from work