VP, Global Sourcing

The Wonderful Company is committed to providing high-quality, healthy, and iconicbrands,including FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halosand helping improve the lives of the people who live and work in the places where weoperate. Ranked No. 1 on the 2025 PEOPLE® Companies That Care list and one of Fortune® magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in the U.S., The Wonderful Company is continually recognized for its dedication to the well-being of its workforce, their communities, and the planet.

The Wonderful Company is seeking an accomplished Vice President, Global Sourcing to lead one of the company's most strategic enterprise functions.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the VP, Global Sourcing will lead the company's global sourcing organization, overseeing strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, logistics, technical packaging engineering, category management, sourcing analytics, and new product development support across The Wonderful Company's diverse portfolio of businesses. The VP will lead teams based in Los Angeles and Bakersfield, along with Asia-Pacific sourcing teams located in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and China, partnering with executive leadership to drive sourcing strategies that create enterprise value, strengthen supplier partnerships, optimize costs, and support long-term business growth.

This role can be based in either Bakersfield, CA or Los Angeles, CA.

Enterprise Sourcing Strategy

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global sourcing strategy across multiple business units and spend categories aligned with the company's long-term business objectives.
• Identify opportunities to optimize spend, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and create measurable enterprise value.
• Develop forward-looking sourcing strategies that anticipate changing economic conditions, geopolitical risks, commodity markets, supplier capabilities, and evolving business priorities.
• Continuously evaluate global supply markets to identify opportunities for innovation, supplier diversification, operational efficiencies, and competitive advantage.
• Lead complex global supplier negotiations and cultivate strategic partnerships that ensure a resilient, competitive supply base while advancing quality, innovation, sustainability, and long-term business growth.
• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing global organization, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor leaders across multiple functions and geographies while building organizational capability and succession strength.
• Evaluate organizational structure, capabilities, and operating models to ensure the sourcing function continues to evolve alongside the business.
• Serve as the enterprise leader for global sourcing, partnering with executive leadership and business unit leaders to align sourcing strategies with evolving business priorities and drive enterprise-wide value.
• Build trusted relationships and lead through influence across a highly matrixed organization, balancing competing priorities while advancing company-wide sourcing initiatives.
• Partner with the Purchasing Board to foster collaboration, governance, and alignment across the enterprise.

Functional Leadership

• Provide executive oversight for enterprise sourcing functions including Global Sourcing, Asia-Pacific Sourcing, Sourcing Analytics & Planning, Technical Packaging Engineering, Logistics, Travel & Fleet, and the New Product Development (NPD) team.
• Provide strategic leadership for the Technical Packaging Engineering team, ensuring packaging solutions balance innovation, quality, manufacturability, sustainability, cost, and supply chain performance…