Director, Strategic Sourcing Excellence
About The Position
We're looking for bold, entrepreneurial talent ready to help build something extraordinary - and reshape the future of building products distribution. QXO is a publicly traded company founded by Brad Jacobs with the goal of building the market-leading company in the building products distribution industry. On April 30, 2025, QXO completed its first acquisition: Beacon Building Products, a leading distributor in the sector. We are building a customer-focused, tech-enabled, and innovation-driven business that will scale rapidly through accretive M&A, organic growth, and greenfield expansion. Our strategy is rooted in delivering exceptional customer experiences, improving operational efficiency, and leveraging data, digital tools, and AI to modernize a historically under-digitized industry. At QXO, procurement is evolving into a strategic growth engine. We're seeking a Director of Strategic Sourcing Excellence to design and embed the frameworks, tools, and training that elevate QXO's sourcing function to world-class performance. This leader will balance proven best practices in strategic sourcing with the deployment of next generation digital sourcing tools like eAuctions and autonomous negotiations, ensuring every category strategy delivers maximum value, innovation, and impact.
Requirements
- Experienced leader in procurement transformation, sourcing excellence, or center of excellence roles.
- Deep expertise in strategic sourcing best practices - category strategy, benchmarking, should-cost modeling, SRM, and negotiation frameworks.
- Expert in eAuctions with experience using them as a strategic tool across diverse categories.
- Experience deploying digital sourcing innovations such as autonomous negotiation technologies.
- Strong understanding of game theory and sourcing design.
- Proven track record in building playbooks, training, and capability programs.
- Skilled facilitator and trainer, able to influence and elevate teams at all levels.
- Digitally fluent but equally grounded in core sourcing methodology.
Responsibilities
- Develop, roll out, and train category strategy methodology, templates, and playbooks; embed in technology, track execution, and challenge quality across teams.
- Own and train the organization on the 7-step sourcing process, embedding discipline and consistency.
- Lead QXO's eAuction program as a strategic lever:
- Train and coach teams on world-class eAuction tools and practices.
- Apply eAuctions across a broad range of categories to create structured competition.
- Position eAuctions at the right point in the sourcing process - after supplier qualification, cost modeling, and market engagement.
- Deploy and scale autonomous negotiation technologies to complement traditional sourcing methods and increase efficiency.
- Provide market intelligence, benchmarking, and should-cost models to inform strategies and sharpen negotiations.
- Facilitate cross-category collaboration and innovation sharing to capture synergies.
- Build competency frameworks, training, and development programs to elevate procurement talent.
- Measure and improve procurement maturity, embedding excellence and best practices across the enterprise.
Benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- PTO, company holidays, and parental leave
- Paid training and certifications
- Legal assistance and identity protection
- Pet insurance
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Industry
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
