Global Strategic Sourcing Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead detailed, front-end technical discussions with chemical and raw material manufacturers to deeply understand the scientific rigor, processing aids, and exact excipients used in ingredient formulations.
• Establish strict guardrails to identify and filter out unapproved excipients or carriers before materials enter the product pipeline.
• Collaborate closely with internal Quality and R&D units to align on precise material specifications, testing protocols, and methodologies, closing expectation gaps to eliminate inbound material rejections and quality failures.
• Ensure vendor offering parameters flawlessly match our internal testing capabilities, preventing materials from failing upon arrival at our facility.
• Lead the transition from domestic distributors to direct global manufacturing partnerships to optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and extend supplier payment terms.
• Aggressively negotiate down high vendor Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs), structuring blanket agreements and rolling quarterly releases to minimize inventory cash locks.
• Mitigate supply chain risk by securing secondary and tertiary backup manufacturing options for all dietary ingredients.
• Transform transactional vendor communications into highly collaborative partnerships via a structured Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) framework built on frequent, proactive touchpoints.
• Design, implement, and lead formal Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and bi-weekly operational syncs with core partners to review forecast accuracy, capacity layout, and cultivate 'mutually prosperous relationships.'
• Develop and launch a comprehensive Supplier Scorecard program to continuously measure, report on, and actively improve supplier performance metric categories.
• Architect and enforce reliable warehouse ordering cadences and parameters within our ERP system (NetSuite) to guarantee that materials arrive precisely when required by the master production schedule.
• Build, launch, and maintain our single source of truth Sourcing & Supplier Database, housing all critical data points including lead times, tiered pricing, and supplier qualification statuses.
• Partner with Sales and Demand Planning to integrate real-time supplier capacity limitations and lead times into the developing Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) loop.

Experience

• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, global procurement, or supply chain leadership.
• Direct experience within an FDA-regulated dietary supplement, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, or food/beverage manufacturing environment is strictly required.

Technical & Scientific Literacy

• Strong understanding of dietary ingredient specifications, chemical processing, certificate of analysis (COA) interpretation, testing methodologies (e.g., HPLC, FTIR), and raw material excipient regulations.

Supplier Launch & System Building

• Proven track record of building supplier databases from scratch, creating vendor qualification metrics, and launching structural supplier scorecard loops.

Advanced Negotiation Capabilities

• Demonstrated success dismantling high vendor MOQs, implementing blanket purchase orders, and structuring master service agreements (MSAs) that maximize working capital efficiency.

ERP & Forecasting Systems

• Advanced capabilities navigating supply chain workflows within major ERP software (NetSuite highly preferred) and translating data into structured ordering cadences.

Relationship Management

• Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills to drive collaborative, multi-layered supplier partnerships ('mutually prosperous relationships').