Senior Vice President, Supplier Relations

SRS Distribution Inc.•McKinney, TX

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Vice President, Supplier Relations develops, optimizes, and scales the company’s national and regional supplier ecosystem. The role builds strategic partnerships, improves supplier performance, oversees cost-effective procurement and end-to-end inventory management, and strengthens the company’s competitive position. It leads supplier relationship management, including sourcing, contract negotiations, strategic partnerships, product category growth, and supplier risk management, while collaborating with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Executive Leadership to improve company performance and expand margins. This executive leads enterprise supplier-relations and inventory strategies, aligns inventory planning with supplier performance, demand, and operational requirements, and drives continuous improvement using analytics and market trends. The role establishes supplier and inventory performance measures, oversees long-range supplier and category planning, negotiates major manufacturer agreements, and develops the Supplier Relations organization. It reports to the EVP & Chief Supply Chain Executive and is based at SRS Distribution in McKinney, Texas. Travel may be required up to 30% of the time. The position operates in a hybrid environment and involves extensive computer work, document review, and in-person and virtual meetings, with occasional travel to other company locations. The role requires agility, strong decision-making, and the ability to navigate complex financial issues and strategic deadlines.

Requirements

At least 15 years of experience in supplier relations, procurement, sourcing, category management, or supply-chain leadership.
At least 7 years in senior leadership roles.
Bachelor’s degree required; Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field preferred.
Proven success negotiating high-value contracts, leading large teams, and building strategic supplier partnerships.
Ability to synthesize supply, demand, cost, risk, margin, and working-capital data into strategic insights that influence the vertical’s direction.
High emotional intelligence, executive presence, and influence skills.
Ability to apply scenario modeling and sensitivity analyses to assess supplier strategies, contract terms, and sourcing alternatives and their effects on operational and financial performance.
Proven ability to build high-performance, customer-centric teams.
Experience driving large-scale organizational transformation as a change leader.
Strong financial acumen in modeling, pricing, rebates, and margin optimization.
Skilled in enterprise-level negotiations with major manufacturers.
Familiarity with ERP systems, procurement platforms, and supplier technology tools.
Exceptional negotiation and commercial acumen.
Strong analytical, financial-modeling, and P&L understanding.
Strategic thinking combined with operational execution capability.
Superior relationship-building and executive communication skills.
Ability to lead transformation in a fast-paced, multi-location environment.

Nice To Haves

Deep experience in building products, construction materials, industrial distribution, or manufacturing is strongly preferred.
Executive experience in building products, construction materials, industrial distribution, or manufacturing.
Strong category-management expertise across core building materials.
Experience leading procurement transformation, national programs, or supplier-network optimization.
Proven success leading multidisciplinary supplier, sourcing, or category teams.
Experience developing supplier scorecards, performance systems, or risk-management frameworks.
Track record of improving working capital through supplier terms and inventory strategies.
MBA or advanced degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or Finance preferred.
CPSM, CSCP, CPM, or SCPro certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute enterprise supplier-relations and inventory strategies that support growth, profitability, operational excellence, and working-capital targets.
Lead end-to-end inventory management, coordinating replenishment, production planning, and supplier lead times to ensure product availability, cost efficiency, and operational reliability.
Integrate supplier performance insights with inventory planning to reduce risk, minimize excess or obsolete stock, and optimize SKU lifecycle decisions.
Collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Category, Sales, and Operations teams to forecast demand, model scenarios, optimize inventory investment, and support product launches and category growth.
Implement continuous-improvement practices for forecasting, safety-stock strategies, accuracy, and replenishment using analytics and market trends.
Establish and monitor KPIs for inventory turns, fill rates, carrying costs, and supplier delivery performance.
Lead long-range planning for supplier alignment, category expansion, cost management, and supply-chain improvement.
Serve as the company contact for major manufacturers and negotiate top-tier agreements, national programs, and strategic contract terms.
Build and sustain supplier partnerships, overseeing scorecards, SLAs, quality metrics, and performance-improvement initiatives.
Identify and onboard new suppliers to expand capabilities, competitiveness, and portfolio strength.
Drive cost savings, margin expansion, and rebate optimization through strategic negotiations and category management.
Lead and develop the Supplier Relations organization, fostering a high-performance culture, negotiation excellence, and future leadership pipelines.
Ensure compliance with ethical sourcing, sustainability standards, legal requirements, and risk-mitigation practices.
Represent the company at industry events, trade shows, and executive supplier meetings.

Benefits

Competitive weekly or bi-weekly pay.
Discretionary bonuses.
401(k) with company match.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Paid time off, including vacation, sick, volunteer, holidays, birthday, and floating time.
Medical insurance.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Flexible spending accounts.
Company-paid life insurance.
Company-paid short-term disability.
Optional long-term disability.
Additional life insurance. Benefits are subject to eligibility.