Vice President of Procurement​/Chief Procurement Officer

## Vice President, Procurement Apply locations:
San Antonio, TX (CH Guenther & Son) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
R819610

The Vice President, Procurement leads enterprise-wide sourcing and procurement strategy for a $2B food manufacturing company. This role is accountable for building a world-class procurement capability that creates value through strategic sourcing, category management, commodity risk management, supplier partnerships, cost optimization, supply continuity, and procurement digital transformation. The role supports 30+ manufacturing sites and a diverse spending portfolio including commodity-based ingredients, packaging, external contract manufacturing, indirect spend, MRO, logistics, professional services, facilities, IT, capital, and corporate services.

The Vice President, Procurement serves as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership team and partners closely with Operations, Commercial, Finance, R&D, Quality, and Supply Chain leadership to protect margins, improve resilience, accelerate supplier innovation, and support enterprise growth.

Location:

San Antonio, TX Corporate Headquarters

Reports To:

Chief Supply Chain Officer
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* Duties and Responsibilities:

**** Strategic Leadership*
* • Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise procurement strategy aligned with company growth, margin expansion, supply chain resilience, working capital, and shareholder value objectives.
• Serve as a key member of the Supply Chain leadership team, influencing enterprise strategy, operating model decisions, and cross-functional priorities.
• Build and lead a best-in-class procurement organization across raw materials, ingredients, materials planning, packaging, external contract manufacturing, indirect procurement, and strategic sourcing.
• Partner with Operations, R&D, Finance, Sales, Quality, and Commercial teams to align procurement strategy with product innovation, customer needs, commercial strategy, and manufacturing requirements.
• Provide external market intelligence, commodity forecasts, supplier innovation insights, and risk perspectives that support pricing, product formulation, customer negotiations, and capital allocation decisions.
• Lead the digital transformation of procurement through advanced analytics, AI-enabled decision support, predictive commodity intelligence, scenario planning, spend analytics and automation. Leverage data as a strategic asset to improve forecasting, sourcing decisions and supplier performance.
** Category, Sourcing, and Indirect Procurement Management*
* • Develop and govern enterprise category strategies across raw materials and ingredients, packaging, external contract manufacturing, indirect spend, MRO, logistics, services, capital, IT, facilities, and corporate services.
• Lead competitive bidding, supplier selection, contract negotiation, sourcing governance, and total cost of ownership decisions across major spend categories.
• Build an enterprise-wide indirect procurement function that establishes governance, category management, spend visibility, sourcing discipline, contract coverage, and measurable productivity across corporate functions.
• Balance cost, quality, innovation, service, food safety, regulatory compliance, and supply assurance in all category strategies and supplier decisions.
** Commodity Risk Management and Margin Protection*
* • Develop and lead a sophisticated commodity risk management capability across grains, flour/wheat, edible oils, sweeteners, dairy, cocoa, and other key agricultural inputs.
• Partner closely with Finance and Commercial teams to optimize hedging strategies, forward buying, supplier diversification, pricing mechanisms, customer pass-through strategies, and market intelligence.
• Monitor commodity exposure versus policy and develop actionable recommendations to protect margins through volatile commodity cycles.
• Lead supplier diversification, dual sourcing, geographic risk mitigation, and business continuity planning for critical materials and supply markets.
** Cost Management and Value Creation*
* • Deliver annual cost savings, cost avoidance, productivity, and EBITDA improvement…