Director, Strategic Sourcing Logistics

The Director, Strategic Sourcing Logistics is responsible for leading a team to develop and implement strategic sourcing initiatives for Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn, as well as supporting global efforts across all Carnival brands. This role focuses on securing optimal sourcing opportunities that deliver value, drive cost savings, enhance service levels, ensure supply continuity, and mitigate supply chain risks.

The Director will collaborate closely with procurement, operations, and supply chain teams to achieve these objectives. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, expertise in logistics sourcing, and a proven track record in supply chain management.

• Delivering best value for Carnival by partnering with logistics providers including:
  Trucking, Ocean Freight, Logistics Service Providers, Air Freight, storage and warehouse facilities, lane and equipment optimization, import/export and tariff impacts and global markets for these services. This role is to be well versed in modern, efficient best practices globally, helping not only ensure competitive and efficient operations today but also driving operations to adopt global best practices - using AI and other modern tools.

• Provide oversight to all strategic sourcing initiatives across the portfolio. Utilize the 7-step sourcing process for large and complex projects.

• This role requires executive presence, engagement and collaboration across the four (4) North America brands. The director will provide team member and stakeholder support, is required to identify a pipeline of projects and execute the sourcing, contracting and implementation process.

• Develop annual savings plan and pipeline. Deliver results for performance goals and measurements. The role is responsible for leading and delivery hard savings targets, cost avoidance and sustainability goals.

• Provide oversight and manage key supplier relationships and contracts across the four (4) North America brands. Develop a supplier relationship management process for key suppliers and hold quarterly business reviews. Ensure a smooth transition of contracts to procurement operations.

• The Director, Strategic Sourcing Logistics will lead a team to create and drive strategic sourcing efforts across Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn (our North America Brands), and globally for global categories, to secure optimal sourcing opportunities that deliver value, drive savings, increase efficiencies / level of service, assure supply, and mitigate supply chain risks.

• This position will use their mastery of analytical skills to solve complex problems utilizing a data driven approach to decision making. They will utilize spend management best practices, tools and techniques in the development and implementation of this integrated strategic sourcing strategy to assess the overall opportunity within the category for projects and engage stakeholders with facts and data.

• The Director, Strategic Sourcing Logistics is responsible for ensuring integration of the procurement/sourcing policy and utilizing a 7-step strategic sourcing process that includes but is not limited to a rigorous market analysis, supplier risk analysis, and baseline spend analysis, to generate options and document a strategic sourcing plan that may include RFP execution, negotiations with suppliers, contract execution and implementation and monitoring of source recommendations.

• Leadership:
  This position will oversee a team of strategic sourcing professionals and work in collaboration with global strategic sourcing professionals, providing leadership in best practices, career development and team collaboration.

• Leadership, lead by influence, exemplary project management skills, ability to negotiate complex business deals. critical thinking, strategy, analysis, interpersonal skills, ability to multi-task, prioritize changing workload requests

• Extensive supply chain experience leading strategic sourcing initiatives - applying best practices, developing category management strategy,…