Senior Director, Sustainable Procurement and Process Excellence

PCI Pharma Services • Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

Life changing therapies. Global impact. Bridge to thousands of biopharma companies and their patients. We are PCI. Our investment is in People who make an impact, drive progress and create a better tomorrow. Our strategy includes building teams across our global network to pioneer and shape the future of PCI.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; Supply Chain, Business, Sustainability, Engineering, Finance, or related field
• 12+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sustainability, supply chain, or related roles, including leadership responsibility
• Demonstrated experience leading supplier engagement, ESG, or decarbonization initiatives in a global environment
• Strong familiarity with Scope 3 emissions accounting methodologies and supplier data platforms
• Experience in heavily regulated industries managing external audits, customer inquiries, and ratings
• Proficiency in ERP systems required; JD Edwards (JDE) preferred

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or relevant professional certification (sustainability, supply chain, ESG) preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as an embedded strategic partner within Procurement to influence sustainable purchasing decisions at scale across priority categories, suppliers, and regions
• Integrate environmental and social risk considerations alongside cost, business risk, and strategic fit into category strategies, sourcing decisions, and award recommendations
• Lead RFP/RFI sustainability evaluations, award recommendations, and final contract negotiations within assigned categories, ensuring alignment across sustainability, commercial, legal, and quality requirements
• Act as the primary point of contact for sustainable procurement inquiries from external stakeholders, including customers, auditors, rating agencies, and partners
• Partner with Finance and Sustainability teams to track major future expenditures, quantify carbon implications, and identify procurement levers that advance decarbonization goals and inform budgeting and capital planning
• Facilitate regular global ESG and sustainable procurement forums to ensure alignment on targets, initiatives, timelines, and performance expectations
• Develop and deploy global procurement policies, toolkits, governance frameworks, and training programs to embed ESG principles and risk management into sourcing strategies and supplier lifecycle management
• Lead the global measurement, management, and reporting of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable global regulatory requirements and reporting frameworks
• Streamline and enhance Scope 3 data collection by expanding the use of primary activity data and supplier-specific emissions data, improving transparency, data quality, coverage, and automation
• Collaborate with Finance to enhance data visibility, purchasing documentation, and controls to support accurate Scope 3 accounting and audit readiness
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and implement high-impact emissions reduction initiatives and supplier roadmaps in support of short- and long-term Scope 3 targets
• Support life cycle assessments, sustainable materials selection, and packaging optimization initiatives, ensuring compliance with emerging regulatory requirements including EU and California packaging regulations
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with priority suppliers to drive value-added collaboration, aligning supplier capabilities with sustainability goals, customer expectations, and the evolving global regulatory landscape
• Assess supplier sustainability performance and analyze trends to identify risks and opportunities, developing targeted processes, workshops, training, and resource hubs to improve supplier performance and reduce supply chain risk
• Manage priority suppliers through external sustainability and risk platforms including EcoVadis, CDP, SBTi, Supplier.io, and similar tools
• Conduct ESG-focused supplier assessments to proactively identify risks related to environmental performance, human rights, ethics, and due diligence requirements, and drive remediation and continuous improvement plans
• Lead the collection, consolidation, and validation of procurement-related sustainability data for annual reports, customer requests, ratings, questionnaires, and external assessments
• Establish and own the procurement process framework - KPIs, SOPs, sourcing playbooks, and templates - that set the standard for how the organization sources across all categories and regions
• Lead structured rollout of new processes and standards through change management and training, ensuring sustainable adoption and an audit-ready posture for internal, customer, and regulatory reviews
• Serve as the process owner and SME for procurement policy and sourcing methodology, advising category managers and business partners on proper channels, escalation paths, and compliance requirements
• Maintain procurement tool catalogue, training and utilization matrix on behalf of organization

Benefits

• Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our company’s purpose: Together, delivering life-changing therapies.
• We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace by holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards of understanding, fairness, respect, and equal opportunity – at every level.
• We envision a PCI community where everyone can belong and grow, and we strive to bring this vision to reality by continuously and intentionally assessing our people practices, policies and programs, marketing approach, and workplace culture.
• uncompromising focus on providing quality and operational excellence and providing the industry leading customer experience.
• providing an industry leading experience for our people is equally as important.
• By creating an authentic culture of purposeful work, we aspire to be an interesting and fulfilling place for talented individuals to grow careers.
• We live a philosophy of intentional learning combined with real-life experience supported by a fair and competitive rewards program.
• We are individuals, teams and a company that believes in our purpose and our approach is simple, the people who work at PCI fuel our business; we don’t say no, we figure out how.

What This Job Offers

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