Global Procurement Director

JBS Foods • Greeley, CO

17h • $150,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Procurement Director – Packaging and Ingredients leads sourcing strategy, supplier relationships, and procurement performance across a significant direct-material spend portfolio supporting a complex, multi-site manufacturing network. The role is accountable for delivering financial value, ensuring reliable supply, and advancing quality, innovation, and sustainability objectives. As a strategic partner to Operations, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, and Sustainability, the Director translates business priorities and market insights into category strategies that support growth, margin protection, cost competitiveness, and operational resilience. The Director also builds and develops a high-performing procurement team and leads cross-functional initiatives.

The position leads multi-year category strategies and sourcing activities for packaging and ingredients, including supplier selection, negotiations, contracts, cost analysis, supplier performance, and supply-risk management. It works with internal teams and suppliers to improve cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, and supply security across multiple manufacturing sites. The role delivers savings, productivity, cost-avoidance, and working-capital objectives, and provides forecasts and purchase-price variance explanations.

The Director is based onsite at JBS’s corporate office in Greeley, Colorado. As a salaried employee, the incumbent may need to travel to company facilities, events, or other locations as business needs dictate. The role may require travel as the business requires, and the applicant must be willing and able to travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, procurement, business, engineering, finance, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain within food, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, or another complex direct-material environment.
• Significant category leadership experience in packaging and/or ingredients, with the ability to lead across both portfolios.
• Demonstrated success managing large, complex portfolios and delivering measurable financial and operational improvements.
• Proven experience leading complex negotiations, developing contracts, and managing strategic supplier relationships.
• Experience developing and implementing category strategies across multiple manufacturing sites or business units.
• Demonstrated ability to assess supply risk and implement effective mitigation and business-continuity plans.
• Experience leading, developing, and holding procurement teams accountable for results.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including cost modeling, total-cost analysis, forecasting, and benefits tracking.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders and engage senior leadership.
• Must be able to perform the job’s functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must be willing and able to travel as business needs dictate.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with JBS and Pilgrim’s is strongly preferred.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Experience within a large, multinational food or consumer products organization.
• Deep knowledge of packaging materials, commodity markets, and/or food ingredients.
• Experience with global sourcing, supplier development, sustainability, and packaging innovation.
• Experience leading procurement transformation, digital initiatives, and significant organizational change.
• Experience with SAP and COUPA systems, including Procurement-to-Pay optimization, invoicing and expense management, Supplier Information Management, system administration, and custom workflows.
• Spanish or Portuguese language proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute multi-year packaging and ingredient category strategies aligned with business objectives, manufacturing needs, and growth plans.
• Lead strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, supplier selection, negotiations, and contract development across assigned categories.
• Use market intelligence, commodity trends, supply-demand dynamics, supplier capacity, cost drivers, and geopolitical developments to inform sourcing decisions and business recommendations.
• Establish category roadmaps and supplier segmentation and sourcing models that balance cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, and supply security.
• Drive total-cost improvement through specification optimization, value engineering, standardization, demand management, and cross-site collaboration.
• Lead sourcing strategies for packaging materials such as corrugated, flexible films, shrink bags, labels, pallets, trays, and rigid packaging.
• Develop market-based pricing models, cost breakdowns, and should-cost analyses; monitor cost drivers and establish pricing mechanisms and contractual protections.
• Partner with Packaging Engineering, R&D, Operations, Quality, and Sustainability to improve packaging performance, material usage, manufacturing efficiency, and total delivered cost.
• Develop supplier capabilities and capacity plans for product launches, packaging redesigns, manufacturing expansion, and network changes.
• Advance material reduction, recycled content, recyclability, and alternative packaging while maintaining food safety, product protection, and operating performance.
• Develop ingredient and raw-material sourcing strategies that meet cost, food safety, quality, specification, availability, and service requirements.
• Partner with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Commercial on formulation changes, product development, productivity initiatives, and alternative sourcing.
• Anticipate commodity price movements, crop and supply risks, capacity constraints, and other developments affecting ingredient cost or availability.
• Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, dual sourcing, specification optimization, and strategic partnerships; coordinate supplier qualification and material approval.
• Establish supplier performance standards and scorecards for cost, quality, delivery, service, innovation, and sustainability; lead supplier reviews and corrective actions.
• Develop supply-risk assessments, contingency plans, and alternative sourcing strategies for critical materials; partner with Supply Chain, Operations, and Quality to resolve disruptions and supplier issues.
• Work with Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders to address contractual, financial, operational, and compliance risks, and ensure procurement follows company policies, approval requirements, and internal controls.
• Deliver annual savings, productivity, cost-avoidance, and working-capital objectives with clear ownership and execution plans.
• Partner with Finance to establish baselines, validate benefits, and track realized results, distinguishing recurring savings from market-driven price changes.
• Develop total-cost-of-ownership models and provide cost forecasts, budget inputs, and explanations of purchase-price variances with market insights and mitigation plans.
• Optimize payment terms, minimum order quantities, inventory arrangements, lead times, and logistics with Finance and Supply Chain.
• Integrate sustainability objectives into category strategies, sourcing events, supplier selection, contracts, and performance reviews.
• Build supplier innovation pipelines and work with internal stakeholders to evaluate, prioritize, pilot, and scale innovations with measurable business value.
• Monitor packaging, environmental, and responsible-sourcing requirements and coordinate sourcing responses with Sustainability, Legal, and Quality.
• Lead, coach, and develop the procurement team; establish accountabilities, performance goals, and succession plans.
• Develop team capabilities in category management, negotiation, financial analysis, supplier development, and risk management.
• Build alignment across business units and manufacturing locations to capture enterprise-wide opportunities.
• Communicate market developments, sourcing recommendations, risks, and results to executive leadership.
• Champion continuous improvement and effective use of procurement data, systems, and digital tools.

Benefits

• Vision, medical, and dental coverage beginning after 60 days of employment.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, vacation, and six company-observed holidays.
• 401(k) with company match beginning after the first year of service, subject to the company vesting schedule.
• Annual bonus plan eligibility, subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program.
• Continuous learning opportunities and learning and development programs supporting professional growth and career development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director