Jobs · Purchasing · Tennessee

Strategic Sourcing Director (International Sourcing, Trade Compliance and Systems)

Greenheck Group · Knoxville, TN · 4 wk ago
Purchasing$178k–$220k/yrFull-time

About the role

Joining Greenheck Group means more than just starting a job; it’s joining an award-winning culture prioritizing your growth and development. Our unwavering commitment to supporting our team members both personally and professionally has earned us national recognition time and time again.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership across Sourcing Systems, Trade Compliance, International Sourcing, and Sourcing Transformation, ensuring these functions deliver measurable business impact and enable the sourcing organization to operate efficiently, effectively, and at scale.

  • Develop and execute enterprise-wide strategies that align with corporate and divisional priorities, leveraging technology, automation, market intelligence, and supplier partnerships to strengthen supply chain resilience, compliance, operational excellence, and cost leadership.

  • Lead transformational initiatives that modernize sourcing capabilities, including systems and SAP optimization, AI-enabled automation, trade compliance programs, and global sourcing strategies, while advancing the organization toward a data-driven, exception-based operating model.

  • Partner closely with sourcing leaders across business units to provide the platforms, processes, governance, and capabilities that support material procurement and supplier management activities across the enterprise.

  • Guide leaders and teams responsible for critical global suppliers, international sourcing programs, and compliance activities, ensuring continuity, scalability, risk mitigation, and alignment with group-level and strategic objectives.

  • Manage annual international sourcing spend exceeding $80M and influence sourcing strategies across the company’s $600M+ global supply chain footprint.

  • Drive sourcing transformation, systems modernization, trade compliance excellence, and global supplier strategy, driving long-term value creation and organizational competitiveness.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant progressive leadership experience required.

  • 6-8 years of relevant managerial experience required.

  • 4 Year / bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field or equivalent years of job experience required.

  • Graduate Degree, MBA preferred.

  • Proven track record in supplier selection, negotiation, development, and enterprise sourcing strategy delivering measurable cost reduction and avoidance.

  • Working knowledge of SAP or comparable ERP, sourcing systems, forecasting tools, and supplier performance management.

  • Strong command of trade compliance, global sourcing, tariff exposure, country-of-origin requirements, and supplier risk.

  • Demonstrated executive communication, business case development, change leadership, and stakeholder management in matrixed organizations.

  • Experience leading digital, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled transformation in sourcing, procurement, or supply chain.

  • Familiarity with AI-enabled sourcing tools, source-to-pay platforms, advanced analytics, machine learning, ERP bolt-on forecasting tools, or agentic AI concepts.

  • Discernment for where AI should assist, where systems should automate, and where human judgment must remain in control — translating automation ideas into cycle-time, productivity, cost-avoidance, and decision-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

  • Travel is required 10-25% of time.

Skills

  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.

  • Leadership and team management skills.

  • Supplier relationship management.

  • Trade compliance expertise.

  • Global sourcing and international trade knowledge.

  • Technology and automation proficiency.

  • Data analysis and reporting skills.

  • Cost reduction and avoidance strategies.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health and family support, financial security, learning and development, rewards and recognition, wellbeing and mental health, and work-life balance.

  • Best-in-class benefits.

Pay

  • The starting base pay range for this position is $177,991 - $219,871 and may vary based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and performance.

Schedule

  • Sedentary work.

  • Occasional mobility required to attend in-person meetings and complete various office tasks.

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