Global Director, Strategic Sourcing – Personal Care

The Global Director, Strategic Sourcing – Personal Care is responsible for leading global sourcing strategy for Vantage’s Personal Care business unit. This is a critical leadership role that requires a sourcing strategist, execution-focused leader, and strong business partner who can translate business and product strategies into sourcing strategies that support growth, innovation, customer responsiveness, supply continuity, and margin improvement.

This role will focus on sourcing finished goods, managing principal suppliers, working with tolling partners and other external supply partners, and building a strong global supply map for the Personal Care business. The Global Director will partner closely with Marketing, Product Management, R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Operations, Quality, Finance, Regulatory, Procurement Operations, and regional teams to ensure sourcing strategies are aligned with business priorities, customer needs, and product strategy.

This is a global business-unit sourcing leadership role supporting Vantage’s Personal Care business. The role will lead sourcing strategies across regions, supplier networks, principal suppliers, tolling partners, finished goods suppliers, ingredient suppliers, formulation-related supply needs, and customer-facing business requirements.

The position is responsible for managing and continuously improving the Personal Care supply map and supplier pool, ensuring the business has the right suppliers, alternate sources, business continuity plans, and risk mitigation strategies to support global growth and customer commitments.

• Lead global sourcing for Vantage’s Personal Care business unit for all categories.
• Manage and add to the Principals portfolio ensuring appropriate levels of profitability in back-to-back sales arrangements.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies that support cost competitiveness, supplier reliability, product availability, quality, speed to market, supply continuity, and business resilience.
• Translate Personal Care business strategy, product strategy, customer needs, and market requirements into sourcing strategies and supplier execution plans.
• Partner with Marketing, Product Management, R&D, Commercial, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, Finance, Regulatory, Procurement Operations, and regional teams to align sourcing priorities with business objectives.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage global and regional suppliers, including principal suppliers, tolling partners, finished goods suppliers, ingredient suppliers, contract manufacturers, and other strategic supply partners.
• Manage the Personal Care supply map and supplier pool, including current suppliers, alternate sources, regional options, supplier capabilities, capacity, risk exposure, and business continuity needs.
• Lead supplier selection, RFP/RFQ processes, bid analysis, total cost of ownership evaluations, supplier qualification support, sourcing recommendations, and negotiations.
• Negotiate supplier agreements, including pricing, terms, service expectations, supply commitments, quality requirements, contract requirements, risk protections, and long‑term value creation.
• Support new product development, alternative sourcing, finished goods sourcing, formulation troubleshooting, and customer‑driven innovation by identifying supplier capabilities and sourcing solutions.
• Build business continuity and active risk management into sourcing strategies across the supplier pool and with individual supply partners.
• Monitor supplier performance, market conditions, cost drivers, ingredient trends, finished goods supply options, regulatory considerations, and competitive dynamics impacting the global personal care and cosmetics industry.
• Partner with internal teams and suppliers to resolve supply, quality, pricing, service, and delivery issues that may impact production, innovation, or customer commitments.
• Identify and execute cost savings, cost avoidance, supplier consolidation, productivity, and total cost of ownership improvement opportunities.
• Provide regular updates to Personal Care and sourcing leadership on sourcing strategy, supplier…