Indirect Purchasing Lead
About The Position
The Indirect Purchasing Lead is responsible for establishing, governing, and continuously improving the North American-wide framework for managing indirect spending in alignment with the company Purchasing strategy. This role ensures standardized processes, controls, and service levels that enable branches and corporate teams to purchase indirect goods and services efficiently, compliantly, and in alignment with operational and strategic objectives. The Indirect Purchasing Lead makes sure spend is justified and has been negotiated by Purchasing. This role requires strong critical thinking and the ability to analyze spend behaviors, patterns, and exceptions to identify irregularities, validate alignment with policies, and surface insights that protect the organization’s financial integrity while supporting operational needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Finance, related field or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of procurement, purchasing, finance or overall category management experience with emphasis on indirect spending.
- Experience developing and rolling out cross-organizational processes.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to balance speed of support with compliance and governance needs.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with distributed branch-based operational teams.
- Exposure to procurement systems, ERP workflows, and P2P processes.
- Knowledge of change management principles and governance frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Governance and Process Ownership: Maintain the North American-wide governance framework for indirect spending, with a focus on areas such as office expenditures, fleet, IT, professional services and other large areas of expenditures. Where advantageous to the North American business, implement Central Services models to consolidate spend, streamline workflows, and enhance value delivery across all regions.
- Indirect Spend Management: This role monitors and manages indirect spending across the organization, ensuring adherence to established policies while identifying opportunities for cost optimization and service improvement. The Indirect Lead makes certain that the Director of Purchasing has detailed visibility into all contracts and manages the associated renewals and lifecycles. This role ensures the Director has timely visibility into all indirect spend contracts and information required for thorough and effective negotiations.
- Cross Functional Partnerships: The Indirect Lead collaborates closely with the Purchasing, Finance, and branch leadership to confirm smooth alignment between indirect spend processes, provided sourcing strategies, budget controls, analytics, and transactional workflows.
- Continuous Improvement: A key focus includes reducing Total Cost of Ownership across indirect categories by challenging underlying cost drivers, improving process efficiency, and strengthening long-term value. The role continuously refines processes to improve speed, visibility, governance, and cost effectiveness while supporting both branch operations and corporate objectives.
Benefits
- Associates (FT) and their eligible family members are offered comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options as well as company-provided basic life insurance, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, and access to the employee assistance program.
- Voluntary benefit options include supplemental life and AD&D insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance plans, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and HSA and FSA account options.
- Associates also have the option to enroll in the company’s 401(k) plan.
- In addition, associates receive PTO (paid time off), state-mandated sick leave, and 9 paid holidays.
- Benefits are effective on their first day of employment
- 401(k) employer match of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed by the associate up to 6% of earnings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
