Interim Supply Chain & Procurement Director

VDS Consulting Group•Pittsburgh, PA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Margin is leaking through the supply base and the portfolio company either does not know where or cannot move fast enough to stop it. This role requires finding, capturing, and implementing solutions to stop margin loss, and establishing a sourcing function that sustains these improvements. The position is closely tied to EBITDA, with sponsors expecting quantified, validated savings against a real baseline that impacts the P&L. The role involves full spend baseline and category segmentation, vendor contract renegotiation, supply base diversification, raw material strategy, inventory strategy, implementation of demand and inventory forecasting tools, sales and operations planning, and supplier performance management.

Requirements

12+ years in supply chain, procurement, or integrated sourcing.
Director-level ownership experience.
Demonstrated, verifiable savings capture (ability to detail baseline, mechanism, and P&L landing).
Category depth in direct materials relevant to industrial manufacturing.
Experience standing up or repairing S&OP.
Working knowledge of planning systems and forecasting tools.
Sufficient technical fluency to evaluate vendor claims.
Comfort renegotiating from a weak position when the supplier is aware of it.

Nice To Haves

Tariff and trade compliance exposure.
Nearshoring supplier qualification experience.
Experience in distressed or liquidity-constrained environments.
VDS-adjacent procurement consulting methodology experience.

Responsibilities

Find and capture margin leakage through the supply base.
Establish a sourcing function that sustains improvements.
Perform full spend baseline and category segmentation.
Renegotiate vendor contracts across top spend categories.
Diversify the supply base and implement dual-sourcing for single-source and geographically concentrated exposure.
Develop and execute raw material strategy, including tariff, freight, and commodity risk.
Optimize inventory strategy for right-sizing, positioning against demand variability, and freeing working capital.
Implement demand and inventory forecasting tools, including AI-driven planning.
Establish or improve sales and operations planning cadence.
Implement supplier performance management and scorecarding.
Baseline spend within the first month.
Rank categories by capture speed and value.
Open negotiations on the top three spend categories.
Deliver a documented savings pipeline for CFO sign-off.