Jobs · Purchasing · Minnesota

Vice President, Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement

nVent · St Louis Park, MN · 1 wk ago
HybridPurchasing$242k–$359k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Vice President, Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement will lead and scale the company’s global sourcing strategy and operating model, delivering enterprise value through cost competitiveness, supplier performance, and capability advancement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and deployment of sourcing operating model (GCM, SRM, SQM, CoE).
  • Drive sourcing transformation initiatives aligned to business goals and growth strategy.
  • Establish governance, decision rights, and enterprise standards.
  • Own enterprise risk, including geopolitical sourcing strategy, structural risk frameworks, crisis response.
  • Define and implement Global Category Management (GCM) strategies across direct and indirect spend.
  • Lead major sourcing initiatives including supplier consolidation and strategic sourcing.
  • Drive enterprise-wide cost optimization and commercial excellence.
  • Own enterprise value delivery, including sourcing productivity, cost-out, and margin impact.
  • Drive supplier consolidation and standardization to reduce complexity and improve leverage.
  • Establish Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) for critical and strategic suppliers.
  • Ensure supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, and innovation.
  • Partner with Quality to implement Supplier Quality Management (SQM) standards.
  • Build and lead a Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) to standardize processes, enable scale, and drive enterprise capability.
  • Enable decision-making through data, analytics, and digital platforms (e.g., Ivalua).
  • Standardize sourcing processes, tools, and governance globally.
  • Drive resource optimization by aligning existing sourcing capacity to the operating model, optimizing capacity without proportional headcount growth.
  • Improve sourcing productivity and reduce transactional complexity.
  • Establish a management operating system with key performance initiatives and value tracking.
  • Build a high-performing global sourcing organization.
  • Strengthen leadership pipeline, succession bench, and capability development.
  • Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and enterprise thinking.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
  • 15+ years of sourcing, procurement, or supply chain experience.
  • 10+ years in senior leadership roles within global, matrixed organizations.
  • Proven experience leading sourcing or procurement transformation with measurable outcomes or center-led models.
  • Meaningful experience developing future leaders.
  • Strong experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier performance and contract negotiation.
  • Track record of strong data-driven decision-making.
  • Enterprise strategy creation experience.
  • Experience implementing procurement platforms (e.g., S2C systems) preferred.
  • Deep understanding of global supply markets and risk management preferred.
  • Track record of delivering significant cost savings and productivity improvement preferred.
  • Applied AI and digital transformation in sourcing preferred.
  • Ability to travel 25-35%, domestic and internationally.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
  • 15+ years of sourcing, procurement, or supply chain experience.
  • 10+ years in senior leadership roles within global, matrixed organizations.
  • Proven experience leading sourcing or procurement transformation with measurable outcomes or center-led models.
  • Meaningful experience developing future leaders.
  • Strong experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier performance and contract negotiation.
  • Track record of strong data-driven decision-making.
  • Enterprise strategy creation experience.
  • Experience implementing procurement platforms (e.g., S2C systems) preferred.
  • Deep understanding of global supply markets and risk management preferred.
  • Track record of delivering significant cost savings and productivity improvement preferred.
  • Applied AI and digital transformation in sourcing preferred.
  • Ability to travel 25-35%, domestic and internationally.

Skills

  • Strategic sourcing and category management expertise.
  • Supplier relationship management and quality assurance.
  • Procurement process standardization and digital transformation.
  • Leadership and organizational development.
  • Data analysis and decision-making.
  • Global supply market understanding and risk management.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
  • Critical illness, accident insurance, and life insurance.
  • A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Company match on retirement plans.
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Back-up care services.
  • Paid time off including volunteer time.
  • A well-being program.
  • Legal & identity theft protection.

Pay

$241,500.00 - $359,000.00 Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Schedule

N/A

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