Indirect Procurement Director

ARDAGH GROUP • Indianapolis, IN

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Indirect Procurement provides enterprise leadership for the indirect spend portfolio, establishing the operating model, governance, talent, and commercial agenda needed to improve value creation across the organization. The role partners with senior stakeholders across operations, finance, engineering, maintenance, information technology, human resources, and other functions to translate business priorities into a coordinated procurement roadmap. It is accountable for portfolio-level performance, organizational capability, supplier resilience, policy stewardship, and the long-term effectiveness of the indirect procurement function.

The position leads the enterprise indirect procurement strategy and team, develops category strategies and supplier relationships, oversees sourcing and negotiations, and provides commercial governance across project and contract lifecycles. It delivers measurable business value while ensuring visibility through forecasts, metrics, and executive reporting. The role also strengthens procurement governance and serves as the senior Procurement escalation point for critical supplier, commercial, and operational matters.

Ardagh Glass Packaging is a global supplier of recyclable glass packaging for the beverage, food, pharmaceutical, and chemical sectors. AGP operates 35 glass production facilities in twelve countries, employs more than 12,500 people, and reported approximately $4.1 billion in sales in 2025. The company emphasizes sustainability, innovation, and a supportive workplace. This role offers flexible and hybrid working hours and is eligible for the annual Ardagh Incentive Bonus plan.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, operations, or a related field.
• Ten years of progressive procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, or commercial leadership experience, including substantial responsibility for indirect spend.
• Five years of people-leadership experience with accountability for developing managers and/or professional teams.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional business initiatives in a complex, multi-site organization; manufacturing or asset-intensive experience is strongly relevant.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and navigating decisions involving competing financial, operational, risk, and service priorities.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in supplier governance, complex contracting environments, financial analysis, and enterprise risk considerations.
• Ability to translate large and diverse spend portfolios into clear strategies, performance measures, and executive-level recommendations.
• Working knowledge of enterprise procurement and ERP environments such as SAP, together with strong digital and analytical fluency.
• Excellent written, verbal, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to travel up to 15% based on business needs.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in business administration, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Fifteen years of progressive procurement or supply chain experience in manufacturing or another multi-site, asset-intensive environment.
• Experience leading broad indirect portfolios such as MRO, facilities, logistics, professional services, capital-related services, information technology, or other enterprise services.
• Experience with procurement transformation, source-to-pay modernization, spend analytics, or procurement operating model redesign.
• Professional certification such as CPSM (Institute for Supply Management) or CSCP (ASCM).

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the enterprise indirect procurement strategy, operating plan, priorities, and multi-year category roadmaps aligned with business objectives, capital plans, operational requirements, and financial targets.
• Lead, coach, and develop the indirect procurement team; establish accountabilities, performance expectations, succession plans, and professional development priorities.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Plant Leadership, EHS, Legal, Finance, HR, IT, and Group Procurement to shape demand, define requirements, prioritize sourcing activity, and support implementation.
• Establish category strategies that aggregate demand across plants, reduce fragmented and local buying, leverage enterprise scale, strengthen competition, and provide appropriate sourcing channels for recurring and urgent business needs.
• Oversee major sourcing events and negotiations, ensuring clear scopes, competitive commercial structures, appropriate payment terms, service levels, warranties, performance guarantees, change-order controls, insurance, indemnification, liability, cybersecurity, and risk allocation.
• Provide commercial governance throughout the project and contract lifecycle, including business-case validation, bid leveling, total-cost analysis, award recommendations, contract approval, supplier onboarding, change management, claims support, closeout, and lessons learned.
• Deliver measurable business value through savings, cost avoidance, demand management, specification optimization, supplier consolidation, productivity, working-capital improvement, and stronger commercial terms.
• Establish and maintain a robust pipeline, forecasts, contracts, savings documentation, performance metrics, and executive reporting for Procurement, Operations, Engineering, and Finance leadership.
• Lead strategic supplier relationship management through business reviews, scorecards, improvement plans, innovation, capacity planning, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor supplier markets, labor availability, commodity and wage drivers, capacity constraints, regulatory developments, business continuity risks, and emerging technologies; develop mitigation and alternate-source strategies.
• Strengthen indirect procurement governance, including sourcing thresholds, competitive-bid requirements, templates, contract standards, delegated authority, purchase-order discipline, supplier due diligence, third-party risk management, and compliance.
• Act as the senior Procurement escalation point for critical supplier issues, commercial disputes, contractor performance, service continuity, claims, and urgent operational requirements.
• Represent Procurement on cross-functional leadership teams and major initiatives, balancing cost, speed, technical requirements, operational continuity, quality, safety, sustainability, and enterprise risk.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match and an employer retirement contribution
• Paid holidays, floating days, and vacation
• Short- and Long-Term Disability (STD/LTD)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Professional and personal development opportunities through Employee Resource Groups
• Benefits available from day 1 of employment
• Flexible and hybrid working hours
• Eligible to participate in the annual Ardagh Incentive Bonus (AIB) plan, based on total company performance

What This Job Offers

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