Director, Procurement - Sustainable Sourcing

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an embedded strategic partner within Procurement to influence sustainable purchasing decisions at scale across priority categories, suppliers, and regions
• Integrate environmental and social risk considerations alongside cost, business risk, and strategic fit into category strategies, sourcing decisions, and award recommendations
• Lead RFP/RFI sustainability evaluations, award recommendations, and final contract negotiations within assigned categories, ensuring alignment across sustainability, commercial, legal, and quality requirements
• Act as the primary point of contact for sustainable procurement inquiries from external stakeholders, including customers, auditors, rating agencies, and partners, providing accurate and high‑quality responses to questionnaires, RFPs, RFIs, audits, and assessments
• Partner with Finance and Sustainability teams to track major future expenditures, quantify carbon implications, and identify procurement levers that advance PCI’s decarbonization goals and inform budgeting and capital planning
• Facilitate regular global ESG and sustainable procurement forums to ensure alignment on targets, initiatives, timelines, and performance expectations
• Develop and deploy global procurement policies, toolkits, governance frameworks, and training programs to embed ESG principles and risk management into sourcing strategies, procurement processes, and supplier lifecycle management

• Lead the global measurement, management, and reporting of PCI’s Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable global regulatory requirements and reporting frameworks
• Streamline and enhance Scope 3 data collection processes by expanding the use of primary activity data and supplier‑specific emissions data, improving transparency, data quality, coverage, and automation
• Collaborate closely with Finance teams to enhance data visibility, purchasing documentation, and controls to support more accurate Scope 3 accounting and audit readiness
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and implement high‑impact emissions reduction initiatives and supplier roadmaps in support of PCI’s short‑ and long‑term Scope 3 targets
• Support life cycle assessments, sustainable materials selection, and packaging optimization initiatives, ensuring compliance with emerging regulatory requirements including EU and California packaging regulations

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with priority suppliers to drive value‑added collaboration, aligning supplier capabilities with PCI’s sustainability goals, customer expectations, and the evolving global regulatory landscape
• Assess supplier sustainability performance and analyze trends to identify risks and opportunities, developing targeted processes, workshops, training, and resource hubs to improve supplier performance and reduce supply chain risk
• Manage priority suppliers through external sustainability and risk platforms to enhance insights, collaboration, transparency, and Scope 3 decarbonization, including tools such as Proof, Eco Vadis, CDP, SBTi, Supplier.io, and similar systems
• Conduct ESG‑focused supplier assessments to proactively identify risks related to environmental performance, human rights, ethics, and due diligence requirements, and drive remediation and continuous improvement plans
• Design and lead supplier communication, engagement, and training programs that establish clear expectations, promote accountability, and unlock high‑impact emissions reduction and innovation opportunities
• Support the onboarding of new suppliers and initiatives by embedding sustainability requirements, scorecards, contractual provisions, and reporting expectations into standard procurement processes and supplier selection criteria
• Lead the collection, consolidation, and validation of procurement‑related sustainability data for annual reports, customer requests, ratings, questionnaires, ad hoc disclosures, and external assessments

• Deep understanding of sustainable procurement, supply chain…