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

Scope 3 Emissions 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
• Collaborate 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

Supplier Engagement & Risk Management

• 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, EcoVadis, CDP, SBTi, Supplier.io, and similar systems
• Design and lead supplier communication, engagement, and training programs that establish clear expectations, promote accountability, and unlock high-impact emissions reduction and innovation opportunities
• Lead the collection, consolidation, and validation of procurement-related sustainability data for annual reports, customer requests, ratings, questionnaires, ad hoc disclosures, and external assessments