Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Director, Procurement Production
Duration: 9 Months
Location: Nashville, TN / New York City, NY / Los Angeles, CA
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Director, Procurement Production
Duration: 9 Months
Location: Nashville, TN / New York City, NY / Los Angeles, CA
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Director, Procurement Production
Reports To: VP, Production Procurement
We are on a mission to unleash the power of content you in?
We've got the brands, we've got the stars, we've got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet now all we're missing is YOU! Becoming a part of client means joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter both for our audiences and our employees and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.
Responsibilities:
Director, Procurement Production
Reports To: VP, Production Procurement
We are on a mission to unleash the power of content you in?
We've got the brands, we've got the stars, we've got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet now all we're missing is YOU! Becoming a part of client means joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter both for our audiences and our employees and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.
Responsibilities:
- Own and manage procurement operating routines, including weekly pipeline reviews, monthly business reviews, and quarterly performance cadences, ensuring consistency and accountability across the function.
- Serve as the enterprise administrator and process owner for the procurement project management platform (Asana), maintaining initiative tracking, milestone visibility, and cross-functional coordination.
- Build and lead the enterprise procurement analytics capability, developing dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics that inform strategic decision-making and track value delivery.
- Partner with category leaders and finance to ensure procurement performance data is reliable, timely, and aligned with FP&A reporting requirements.
- Help standardize repeatable procurement processes for production requests, including intake, prioritization, stakeholder updates, vendor comparisons, approval tracking, and escalation paths.
- Drive consistent use of procurement tools, shared trackers, and reporting routines so production leadership has clear visibility into progress, blockers, vendor status, and value delivery.
- Develop and maintain executive-level reporting materials that communicate procurement performance, pipeline health, and value creation to senior leadership.
- Identify process improvement opportunities across procurement operations, streamlining workflows and eliminating inefficiencies.
- Support change management efforts related to new operating routines, tools, and reporting requirements across the procurement organization.
- Operate as a senior individual contributor, working cross-functionally with internal teams and external suppliers to move time-sensitive production procurement priorities to closure.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in procurement, supply chain, production operations, production finance, sourcing, vendor management, or management consulting with experience supporting complex, time-sensitive business environments.
- Proven experience building and managing operating cadences, governance routines, and performance management frameworks.
- Strong analytical capabilities with demonstrated expertise in developing procurement dashboards, KPIs, and data-driven reporting.
- Proficiency with project management, procurement, ERP, or workflow platforms, such as Asana, Smartsheet, Oracle Fusion, Airtable, Excel, or equivalent tools.
- Demonstrated success operating with agility, prioritizing strategically, and delivering results in fast-paced, highly cross-functional environments.
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience supporting production, studio, media, entertainment, live events, or other project-based operating environments preferred.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate production needs, vendor issues, and procurement data into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Process improvement experience using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
- Entrepreneurial and solutions-oriented mindset; comfortable creating structure, driving follow-up, and closing open items in evolving production environments.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Nashville, TN |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $100 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Entertainment and Mediaunmatched
- Entrepreneurshipunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Six Sigmaunmatched
- Management Consultingunmatched
- Oracle Fusion Middlewareunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Supply Chain Operationsunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Sourcingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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