Senior Manager for Procurement and Sourcing

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Tactical Buyers, Expeditors, and the Quotes function.
• Establish clear priorities, workload balancing, and accountability across the team.
• Drive a high-performance culture focused on urgency, ownership, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor team members to increase strategic thinking and procurement capabilities.
• Develop succession plans and career development opportunities for team members.

Procurement Operations & Execution Discipline

• Ensure rapid and reliable execution of RFQs, quotes, purchase orders, and supplier follow-up activities.
• Implement and enforce service level expectations for RFQ turnaround, PO cycle times, and supplier responsiveness.
• Establish daily and weekly operating cadences, including KPI reviews, workload management, and escalation processes.
• Improve visibility and control of procurement activities across the organization.
• Drive process standardization and continuous improvement initiatives across procurement operations.

Quotes-to-Execution Alignment

• Ensure strong alignment between quoting and purchasing activities to support profitability and execution readiness.
• Improve communication and coordination between the Quotes team and Procurement team.
• Reduce delays, rework, pricing inconsistencies, and missed commitments.
• Support commercial objectives by balancing customer responsiveness with procurement effectiveness.

Spot Buy Management & Optimization

• Lead and prioritize all spot-buy activities to support customer and operational requirements.
• Improve responsiveness while reducing firefighting through structured processes and accountability.
• Identify recurring purchasing patterns and opportunities for standardization.
• Develop and implement strategies to reduce transactional purchasing and increase procurement efficiency.

Strategic Sourcing Transformation

• Drive the transition from transactional purchasing to strategic sourcing.
• Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, preferred supplier programs, blanket agreements, and long-term supply arrangements.
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of sourcing opportunities based on spend analysis, purchasing trends, and business requirements.
• Partner with key stakeholders to improve procurement planning and reduce reactive purchasing.
• Lead sourcing initiatives that improve supplier performance, reduce risk, and optimize total cost of ownership.

Indirect Procurement & Sourcing Transformation

• Lead the development and execution of an enterprise-wide indirect procurement strategy across categories such as MRO, operating supplies, facilities, packaging, professional services, IT, and other indirect spending areas.
• Identify opportunities to standardize purchasing practices, consolidate suppliers, leverage spend, and improve total cost of ownership.
• Establish sourcing strategies, preferred supplier programs, and commercial agreements that improve service, quality, and cost performance.
• Partner with Operations, Finance, IT, HR, and other functional leaders to improve procurement governance and increase spend under management.
• Develop category management roadmaps and sourcing pipelines to transition indirect procurement from decentralized, transactional buying to a disciplined, strategic procurement model.
• Deliver measurable savings, supplier performance improvements, risk reduction, and process efficiencies across indirect spend categories.

Supplier Performance & Cost Management

• Support supplier negotiations and cost improvement initiatives.
• Monitor supplier performance, including on-time delivery, responsiveness, quality, and pricing consistency.
• Collaborate with Operations, Sales, Planning, Engineering, and Sourcing teams to improve overall supply chain performance.
• Support working capital improvement initiatives through inventory optimization and supplier collaboration.