Director Global Sourcing & Compliance

Director, Global Sourcing & Compliance Leaf Home

Address 1595 Georgetown Rd, Hudson, OH 44236, USA

Schedule Full time

Job Type Permanent

Description

At Leaf Home, we are powered by people on a single mission to make home ownership easy. We’ve crafted a team of the very best to ensure we make a difference by winning every day. In addition to serving our customers, Leaf Home strives to build a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be a certified Great Place to Work® as well as a multi-year recipient of Top Workplaces recognition.

From competitive medical benefits to people-focused committees like the Women’s Committee, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and Vet Connect, we are dedicated to making Leaf Home a workplace where you can win every day. Come grow your career with us.

• We Win – Being driven every day to win is who we are
• People Powered – Recognized as a top Ohio and U.S. workplace by Great Place to Work®, Energage, and more
• Family Feel with Enterprise-Level Resources – You are important to us, and we’ve built a culture you’ll love
• Support – Inclusion, sustainability, and reliability surround everything we do
• Personal Growth – Dedicated to providing resources and encouragement for employee growth
• Mobility – Locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, with continued expansion

The Director, Global Sourcing & Compliance provides strategic leadership for Leaf Home’s global sourcing, supplier compliance, quality, and supply-base risk management activities. This role develops and executes short- and long-term sourcing strategies that support cost optimization, product innovation, supplier performance, regulatory compliance, sustainability, and business continuity. The Director leads multiple areas of work within the sourcing and compliance function, partners across Product, Operations, Supply Chain, Legal, and other functions, and translates market and supplier insights into business strategies, measurable outcomes, and risk mitigation plans.

Partner with Supply Chain and Operations to optimize supplier lead times, MOQs, order quantities, payment terms, stocking strategies, and capacity commitments to improve inventory turns, working capital, service levels, and overall total cost.

• Global Sourcing & Category Strategy: Develop and execute global sourcing and category strategies and the supplier portfolio roadmap, including spend segmentation, supplier identification and qualification, competitive sourcing, negotiation, supplier development, performance management, make/buy and regional sourcing decisions, and long-term capacity planning aligned with business objectives.
• Product Development, Innovation & Value Engineering: Direct supplier engagement across product development and new product launches, leveraging supplier engineering and manufacturing capabilities, should-cost analysis, design-to-value, specification optimization, and supplier innovation to improve cost, quality, speed, manufacturability, and launch readiness.
• Commercial Management, Productivity & Risk: Establish and oversee total cost of ownership strategies, market intelligence, sourcing opportunity pipelines, competitive RFx processes, contract and commercial negotiations, working-capital improvements, and supply-base risk mitigation plans that deliver Finance-validated savings, improve cash performance, and strengthen continuity of supply.
• Supplier Quality, Compliance & Resiliency: Provide strategic oversight of supplier quality, compliance, warranty, audit, regulatory, sustainability, capacity, and business-continuity frameworks, ensuring supplier expectations, corrective actions, reporting practices, and contingency plans align with Leaf…