Senior Procurement Manager - Chemicals & Raw Materials

• Pay or shift range: $95,000 USD to $130,000 USD The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

The Senior Manager, Procurement
- Chemicals & Raw Materials leads the strategy and day-to-day execution of Twin Rivers' chemicals and raw-material portfolio, including strategic sourcing, purchasing, inventory management, material planning, supplier performance, supply assurance, and continuous improvement across the manufacturing network.

• Lead and develop the current team responsible for purchase-order entry, inventory management, raw-material planning, delivery coordination, and resolution of supplier execution issues; adapt the team structure as business needs evolve.
• Own category strategies, sourcing, negotiations, contracts, supplier performance, budgeting, market intelligence, risk management, and cost-savings delivery.
• Ensure tactical activities are executed accurately and on time, while stepping in directly when shortages, delivery failures, purchase-order issues, or other supplier challenges threaten mill operations.
• Lead, coach, and hold accountable a small hands-on team, currently two employees, with the ability to expand the organization as the portfolio and business needs grow.
• Balance long-range category leadership with daily operational oversight; set priorities, clarify responsibilities, review exceptions, and ensure follow-through.
• Provide governance for requisitions and purchase orders, inventory targets, material plans, delivery schedules, supplier escalations, and constrained-material allocation.
• Create a practical operating cadence that gives the team clear priorities while providing Operations and leadership visibility to risks, actions, owners, and due dates.

• Develop multi-year category strategies by chemical family and raw-material segment, including demand outlook, cost drivers, supply-market structure, risk exposure, sourcing options, and negotiation roadmaps.
• Lead major sourcing events, negotiations, and contract strategies, with emphasis on total cost, index integrity, service, quality, payment terms, liability protection, and supply security.
• Segment suppliers and lead strategic-business reviews, joint value creation, innovation pipelines, and corrective-action plans.
• Create qualified alternatives, dual-source critical materials where economically justified, and maintain contingency plans for high-risk supply chains. Work closely with product development and technical teams.
• Use market intelligence and cost models to challenge supplier pricing, anticipate supply-demand shifts, and improve commercial leverage.

• Set inventory strategy and target ranges by material, site, lead time, criticality, shelf life, storage capacity, and disruption risk.
• Ensure raw-material plans align with production schedules, forecast changes, shutdowns, supplier constraints, transportation realities, and cash objectives.
• Drive reduction of excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and off-spec inventory while protecting mill continuity and customer commitments.
• Lead cross-functional responses to shortages, force majeure events, quality failures, logistics disruptions, and abrupt market changes.
• Improve planning parameters, master data, visibility, and exception-based management
• Lead and develop a continuous-improvement pipeline across chemicals, raw materials, inventory, and planning, with clear priorities, owners, milestones, and financial impact.
• Actively govern and engage in execution of the savings portfolio, removing barriers and tracking initiatives from validated opportunity through implementation, Finance confirmation, and sustained results.
• Mobilize and support direct reports and cross-functional teams to deliver cost reduction, consumption improvement, standardization, substitution, waste reduction, and working-capital initiatives.

• Develop the annual commodity and raw-material budget, including price, volume, mix, usage, freight, surcharge, and inventory assumptions.
• Own the cost-savings and value-delivery agenda; track realized savings, cost avoidance, purchase-price variance, working capital, supplier performance, and contract compliance with Finance.
• Partner with Operations and Technical teams on consumption…