Director, MRO Procurement

Florida Crystals Corporation is a fully integrated cane sugar company. Florida Crystals regeneratively farms sugarcane and rice in South Florida, where it owns two sugar mills, a sugar refinery, a packaging and distribution center, Florida's only rice mill, a compost facility, and one of the largest renewable power plants of its kind in the U.S., which uses sugarcane fiber to generate eco-friendly energy that powers its sugar operations.

Florida Crystals owns one of the largest Regenerative Organic Certified® farms in the U.S. and its Florida Crystals® products are the only ROC™ sugar grown and milled sugar in the country. Florida Crystals owns ASR Group International, Inc., a holding company that conducts operations through its subsidiaries. The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar.

Florida Crystals is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. Learn more at

The Director, MRO Procurement will manage a $150M spend profile in MRO supporting US operations, to maximize value. In addition, this role is responsible for MRO Materials Management, including the planning, inventory management, and storage of MRO spare parts and materials, with the goal of optimizing parts inventory which is estimated at $150M.

The Director, MRO Procurement reports to the Sr. Director, Global Procurement. This role will be required to work collaboratively with Vice Presidents, plant General Managers, members of the Engineering Department and with numerous other departments/leaders across the organization, including Maintenance, Plant Operations, and Supply Chain Services in support of MRO Materials Management. In addition, this role has a number of both direct and indirect reports, leads by example as a pillar within the organization, and maintains positive business relationships with both internal and external customers.

• Develops and maintains systematic, analytical and results-based methods for savings, monitoring supplier's performance, and sourcing effectiveness; communicates these results to appropriate stakeholders as needed
• Works closely with the business and implements new global sources of supply that align with the current business strategies
• Manages current contract portfolio and assists with implementation and on-going management of new sourcing initiatives
• Manages new large construction jobs
• Works cohesively with existing manufacturing facilities
• Identifies maverick spend and additional contract utilization opportunities
• Develops and manages project-specific procurement plans
• Leverages volume across major spend items (driving processes at the highest possible level while identifying additional leveraging opportunities)
• Analyzes and reports on commodity and supplier performance against goals and objectives
• Leads negotiation efforts on purchase agreements and vendor contracts while delivering quality, on time supply, service, cost containment, and process improvement
• Sets negotiating plans and negotiates agreements for key materials
• Develops and implements risk management strategies
• Develops and implements feedback mechanisms to determine customer satisfaction levels; responds to issues and concerns while collaborating with teams in managing alliance supplier efforts
• Properly reports progress of work initiatives to resolve internal roadblocks and follows internal escalation procedures when necessary to ensure targeted savings are achieved
• Coordinates supplier rankings and reviews; develops comparison models for index-based contracts
• Leads MRO Materials Management, including the development of MRO inventory strategies (deterministic and statistical replenishment) to optimize working capital for spare parts and…