Director of Sourcing Chemical

About the role

Searching for a strategic procurement leader with deep chemical sourcing expertise who can develop global category strategies, negotiate large-scale supply agreements, manage supplier risk, provide market intelligence, and influence executive leadership while driving costs, supply security, and competitive advantage across a global chemical organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global sourcing and category management strategies for critical chemical raw material categories.
• Partner with business leaders to understand strategic objectives and translate requirements into procurement strategies that drive competitive advantage.
• Lead global supplier selection, sourcing events, RFQs, RFPs, and contract negotiations.
• Monitor global supply markets, industry trends, pricing dynamics, and risk factors to provide actionable market intelligence.
• Develop and implement category risk management and supply continuity plans.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers across global markets.
• Utilize spend analysis, market intelligence, demand forecasting, and cost modeling to support data-driven decision making.
• Lead supplier qualification, evaluation, and substitution initiatives.
• Drive supplier performance management programs focused on cost, quality, innovation, and service.
• Collaborate with regional procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial teams to ensure alignment and successful execution of category strategies.
• Mentor and develop procurement team members while promoting best practices in strategic sourcing and category management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, or another quantitative discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, or Commercial roles.
• 5 years minimum of managing global chemical categories.
• Chemical experience within Speciality Chemicals, Surfactants, Solvents, Monomers, Polymers, Acids, Caustic, Amines, Glycol, biocides.
• Strong knowledge of Feed stock impacts, Petrochemical markets, Supplier Economics, Global supply chains.