Procurement Sourcing Mgr

Procurement Sourcing Manager

Summary:

The Procurement and Sourcing Manager is responsible for establishing and leading the company's procurement function, including strategy, governance, supplier management, sourcing, and purchasing operations. This role partners closely with finance, operations, and executive leadership to develop scalable policies, controls, systems, and reporting to support a multi-site logistics environment. The position is expected to drive spend visibility, strengthen contract and supplier governance, identify cost and efficiency opportunities, and build a disciplined procurement process that supports growth and operational performance.

Comfort working with all levels of the organization, including the warehouse floor, is imperative. Use education, procurement experience, and general financial acumen to drive results.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Establish and lead the company's procurement strategy and governance framework, standardizing vendors, items, pricing, and buying practices across sites
• Own procurement strategy and supplier management for indirect and operational spend categories; warehousing, MHE, packaging, technology, MRO, and other spend categories as assigned
• Drive ethical sourcing using competitive bid processes and benchmark conflict-of-interest standards
• Conduct negotiations for supplier agreements, pricing structures, service levels, and commercial terms
• Develop a contract repository with renewal tracking, approved vendor lists, service-level expectations, insurance COI tracking, pricing compliance, and vendor onboarding controls
• Identify and execute opportunities for vendor rationalization, balancing national contract consolidation with local operating needs
• Develop purchasing approval guidelines and ensure procurement activities comply with company authorization requirements. Analyze spend, market conditions, and supplier performance to identify savings opportunities, reduce risk, and improve decision-making
• Identify customer-specific purchasing patterns and cost recovery opportunities
• Establish and improve KPIs such as annualized cost savings or avoidance, spend under management, vendor consolidation, contract compliance, PO cycle time, on-time supplier performance, procurement policy adoption across sites, and other metrics as identified
• Develop spend visibility by site, customer, vendor, and category to support savings initiatives, budgeting, customer pricing, and margin analysis
• Partner with Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership to align procurement strategy and governance with business priorities, budgets, and service expectations
• Reduce one-off spend, eliminating maverick spend
• Develop scalable policies, procedures, workflows, internal controls, systems, and reporting
• Oversee, support, and improve day-to-day procurement activities and systems, including requisition to PO to receipt and payment workflow, supplier follow-up, and issue resolution while building a scalable function
• Systematize and automate processes, procedures, and controls
• Train site leaders and support staff on procurement policies, processes, and controls
• Influence adoption without direct authority, building credibility by solving practical site-level problems
• Other duties as assigned

Successful Candidate Will:

• Be a thought-leader identifying opportunities for improvement across the organization and executing them
• Function as a business partner to all business disciplines and Executive Leadership
• Own their area of responsibility, ensuring objectives are completed on time and correctly in accordance with company policies, procedures, regulations, and expectations
• Maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, customers, and vendors; responding to questions promptly, professionally, and correctly
• Be able to evaluate and manage multiple priorities
• Rely on experience to seek out and solve problems
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality
• Maintain a clean and secure work environment
• Pursue professional development
• Be a self-starter, possessing a high degree of self-motivation
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills

What You Need:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Academic/Credentials/

Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business, or Finance: a combination of education and experience will be considered
• Master's Degree a plus
• CPSM, CPPM, CSCP, or similar certification preferred

Length of experience:

• Five to seven years procurement experience
• Three to Five years developing procurement operations, programs, and controls
• Three to Five years of experience in manufacturing, distribution, or third-party warehousing
• Experience in Private Equity-owned companies preferred
• Experience managing indirect and operational spend…