Chief Procurement Officer
(Admin Agency Division Director Senior - $84,627 - $121,271)

Minnesota's Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) is responsible for directing the state's public procurement efforts, which exceed $4 billion annually. This includes state executive branch purchasing, as well as cooperative purchasing contracts managed on behalf of Minnesota's local units of government and customers from government organizations across the country. The CPO leads a central procurement office of about 80 highly-skilled professionals and oversees nearly 700 employees with varying levels of delegated purchasing authority across the enterprise, including attorneys, pharmacists, buyers, and many other professionals.

Qualifications

Qualified candidates will have five years' experience managing a large scale procurement program, preferably in the public sector. Experience will include executive leadership which demonstrates the following:

• Strategic planning, visioning, and policy analysis
  • Assist the Commissioner of Administration in setting strategic direction for state procurement and contracting
  • Plan, organize, and successfully implement departmental and division initiatives
  • Manage complex, competing, and time-sensitive priorities
• Oral and written communications skills
  • Build consensus and support for the department's mission and objectives with a wide range of individuals and groups
  • Communicate effectively with all levels of clientele and across widely varying degrees of technical, legal, operational, and political knowledge or awareness
• Interpersonal communication and human relations
  • Establish and maintain strong working relationships within the department and with other agencies and branches of government
  • Involve stakeholders, develop consensus, and resolve problems
• Problem solving
  • Identify, analyze, and resolve a broad range of complex problems and sensitive issues
  • Bring creativity and innovation to problems with various political, legal, and operational implications

For more information

How To Apply

For consideration, please submit your resume and a cover letter to Cathy.Bisser@state.mn.us by May 22, 2015.