Strategic Procurement Lead

Build your career at Heritage Construction + Materials, a privately held, family-owned business headquartered in Indianapolis with core capabilities in infrastructure building across the Midwest.

About the role

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, this high-visibility, high-impact individual contributor role is responsible for building the procurement function from the ground up. You will establish and lead Heritage Construction + Materials’ coordinated indirect procurement function, delivering measurable cost savings across HC+M’s platform of operating companies.

The ideal candidate is a proven practitioner: relationship-first, analytically driven, and entrepreneurially minded, with a track record of delivering compounding, recurring savings in complex, decentralized organizations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development and execution of HC+M’s indirect procurement function, mapping and analyzing indirect spend across operating companies, identifying addressable categories, and prioritizing the highest-value opportunities to deliver measurable, compounding savings.
• Develop and execute category management strategies with clear action plans, defined timelines, savings targets, and KPIs; build and maintain a category pipeline that delivers recurring savings ahead of inflation and scales with HC+M’s platform growth.
• Deliver a minimum 4x annual ROI on the total investment in this function.
• Design and lead competitive sourcing events, including RFPs and RFQs, for key spend categories in close partnership with operating company stakeholders.
• Negotiate long-term supplier agreements that deliver optimal pricing, service level commitments, and favorable contract terms utilizing the collective scale of HC+M.
• Own procurement standards, supplier qualification processes, preferred vendor program development, and contract compliance requirements, ensuring operating companies have access to pre-negotiated, high-quality vendors without added administrative burden.
• Identify process improvement opportunities beyond pricing, including standardization, supplier consolidation, demand management, and contract structuring, to drive total cost reduction across the platform.
• Establish best-in-class strategic and practical procurement processes across HC+M.
• Partner with executive leaders and key stakeholders to serve as a trusted procurement resource and internal advisor, ensuring the function is consistently experienced as a value-add.
• Communicate transparently and regularly on category progress, savings capture, and pipeline activity; build strong vendor relationships and leverage existing operating company vendor partnerships where applicable.
• Establish and maintain procurement tracking tools, spend analytics dashboards, and savings reporting to support executive and board-level visibility; report procurement performance to the CFO on a regular cadence, including actual savings delivered, pipeline value, and ROI metrics.
• Develop practical, scalable procurement policies appropriate for a decentralized operating company structure; identify and leverage The Heritage Group’s broader vendor relationships and platform scale where applicable.
• Evaluate and leverage available procurement technology platforms and AI-enabled tools to optimize sourcing, contract management, and administrative efficiency across the function.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including continuously growing in alignment with the Company’s core values, competencies, and skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
• Master’s Degree, MBA, CPM, or CPSM certification (a plus).
• 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain management, with a demonstrated track record of delivering measurable category savings through RFP/RFQ processes, vendor negotiations, and multi-year supplier agreements.
• Direct experience managing procurement across decentralized or multi-entity business structures.
• Prior experience presenting procurement performance to CFO-level or board-level stakeholders.
• Experience implementing or utilizing procurement technology platforms (e-sourcing, contract management, P2P tools).
• Experience working in or alongside construction, infrastructure, heavy civil, materials, or related industrial industries (strongly preferred).
• Valid Driver’s License and clean driving record.

Skills

• Applied knowledge of indirect procurement, category management, strategic sourcing, vendor negotiation, and supply chain operations to support accurate decision-making, deliver measurable savings, and drive problem resolution across decentralized business structures.
• Working knowledge of indirect spend categories common to infrastructure and construction environments, including fleet, fuel, PPE/safety, equipment rentals, MRO, facilities services, IT, and professional services, with the ability to apply category-specific context to sourcing strategies, vendor qualification, and negotiation priorities.
• Demonstrated skill in applying procurement tools, systems, and methodologies, including spend analytics, RFP/RFQ processes, contract management, e-sourcing platforms, and AI-enabled tools, to execute category strategies and achieve results.
• Ability to manage multiple category initiatives simultaneously, solve complex sourcing problems independently, and collaborate effectively with operating company stakeholders, finance leaders, and executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with operations-focused stakeholders in complex, decentralized environments, with strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills to influence without authority and present clearly to CFO-level and executive audiences.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including spend data analysis, savings quantification, business case development, and ROI reporting, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and executive-level communications.
• Self-directed and entrepreneurially minded, with the demonstrated ability to build procurement processes from scratch, operate effectively with limited existing infrastructure, and leverage technology and AI tools to optimize efficiency and scale.

Schedule

• Work is primarily performed during standard business hours; occasional extended hours may be required to meet project or business demands.
• Regular travel to HC+M operating company locations across Indiana and the Midwest is required; occasional travel to other regional locations, The Heritage Group offices, or company events may be required.