Director of Strategic Sourcing

IMTT•New Orleans, LA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategic Sourcing Director is a hands-on leader who develops and executes enterprise sourcing and category strategies for materials, equipment, and services to optimize total cost of ownership, strengthen supplier performance, and ensure supply continuity. Operating initially as an individual contributor, this role leads end-to-end sourcing (intake through implementation), builds scalable processes, tools, and governance, and partners with Operations, Maintenance, Finance, Legal, and other stakeholders to deliver measurable savings, mitigate third-party risk, and improve procure-to-pay effectiveness.

Requirements

10+ years in strategic sourcing/category management/procurement with a proven record of delivering realized value (savings, risk reduction, supplier performance) in an industrial, energy, terminal, logistics, or similarly complex operating environment; prior people leadership experience preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field required; MBA/advanced degree and CPSM/CIPS (or equivalent) certification preferred.
Executive-level influencing and stakeholder leadership; able to align cross-functional teams and communicate clearly with senior leaders.
Expert negotiator with strong commercial and contract management skills; partners with Legal on complex terms (risk allocation, indemnities, insurance, remedies).
Deep expertise in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier relationship management, and procurement governance; builds scalable standards, processes, and playbooks.
Advanced analytics and financial modeling (spend, TCO/should-cost, business cases) with ability to build dashboards that surface savings, demand trends, supplier concentration risk, and compliance leakage; strong Excel plus BI/ERP tooling (Power BI/Workday preferred; EAM such as Hexagon a plus).
Practical AI user: leverages Microsoft Copilot (or equivalent) to accelerate research, RFx/content drafting, supplier communications, and category strategy deliverables; builds repeatable, secure workflows that protect confidential data.

Nice To Haves

prior people leadership experience preferred
MBA/advanced degree and CPSM/CIPS (or equivalent) certification preferred
EAM such as Hexagon a plus

Responsibilities

Full-stack, hands-on sourcing leader who independently performs work typically done by Analyst/Specialist/Category Manager (intake, data gathering, RFx, analysis, negotiations, award, and supplier governance) with minimal support.
Expert in the 7-step strategic sourcing process; executes end-to-end sourcing through implementation and supplier performance management.
Builds and execute category strategies and sourcing roadmaps aligned to business objectives; prioritizes initiatives by value, risk, and operational criticality.
Leads complex negotiations and contracting strategy with Legal; develops playbooks, approval paths, and compliant deal structures that maximize total value.
Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders; translates business needs into sourcing strategies, aligns scope/specifications/service levels, and balances speed, risk, and operational requirements.
Data- and process-driven: builds spend/TCO insights and KPI dashboards (savings, compliance, cycle time, supplier performance) and drives continuous improvement across procure-to-pay.
Establishes supplier segmentation, governance cadence, and scorecards; owns procurement controls/policies and proactively manages supply, commercial, and third-party risk (including continuity planning).
Leads implementation and adoption of awarded agreements (onboarding, catalogs, pricing controls, SLAs, compliance tracking) and drives change management to ensure benefits are realized.