Head of Procurement

Ports America - Chandler, AZ

Full-time

Chandler, AZ

Support Activities for Transportation

About the position

The Head of Procurement at Ports America is a leadership role focused on building and managing a center-led Strategic Sourcing organization. This position is responsible for driving significant improvements in Strategic Sourcing Management, optimizing costs, managing supplier performance, and ensuring material availability. The successful candidate will collaborate with port and functional leaders to establish credibility and implement effective sourcing strategies aligned with the company's strategic vision.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate central-led strategic sourcing activities across corporate and lines of business in partnership with stakeholders.
• Collaborate, support, and drive alignment with site-level operational leaders to ensure long-term buy-in.
• Partner and provide on-the-ground support to all sites to deploy all planning tools, parameters, and best practices.
• Partner with operations to resolve constrained and late material issues.
• Ensure the company can achieve customer commitments.
• Lead execution of strategic sourcing fundamentals such as category strategies, competitive RFPs, regional sourcing, and supplier consolidation.
• Develop aggressive strategic sourcing strategies across all categories, including defining specific roadmaps of actions with milestones.
• Build the infrastructure to support a sustainable sourcing organization.
• Deploy an improved supplier scorecard performance management process, including quality, delivery, and contract adherence.
• Drive compliance within the business once suppliers are selected and contracts negotiated.
• Implement improved sourcing tools, including spend cube.
• Partner with finance and business leaders to ensure savings capture, tracking and retention.
• Build relationships with key supplier executives as well as peers in the industry.
• Assess team - identify skills and capabilities required, then build, upgrade, and develop the team.

Requirements

• Strong base of experience and successful track record in strategic sourcing for capex and opex categories.
• Exposure to infrastructure industries, particularly ports/terminals.
• Demonstrated expertise in procurement processes and systems.
• Team and culture transformation experience.
• Familiarity with maintenance, facilities, and large capex spend.
• Previous roles in Supply Chain/Planning fundamentals including SI&OP.

Nice-to-haves

• MBA or Graduate degree.
• Lean Six Sigma background.
• Private Equity exposure, including mergers & acquisitions, IPOs or exits.
• Site management or operations experience.
• Ability to understand terminal operations, planning, and stevedore operations principles.
• Experience managing some form of infrastructure and SG&A spend.
• Experience in stevedoring and marine terminal markets.
• Experience with industry-related labor contracts.
• Knowledge of safety and accident prevention codes and regulations.
• Knowledge of industry-related regulatory codes and requirements.
• Experience with profit and loss principles.
• Experience managing related operations or selling services within the shipping industry.