Sourcing & Procurement Risk Director

Koch•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a principled and influential Sourcing Risk Director to help shape the future of risk, controls, and compliance across a $7 billion procurement organization spanning approximately 400 sourcing and procurement professionals and multiple ERP platforms. Reporting to the Vice President of Continuous Improvement & Transformation, this highly visible leadership role will strengthen internal controls, reduce enterprise risk, and drive continuous improvement across the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle. As a trusted advisor and change leader, you will translate risk insights into practical, scalable solutions that enhance performance, improve decision quality, and enable responsible growth. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Sourcing, Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Digital capabilities to build a culture where strong controls and business results go hand in hand. Success in this role requires the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, simplify complexity, and drive adoption through clear communication and disciplined execution. This is a unique opportunity to help modernize how procurement manages risk—leveraging data, technology, and process excellence to create a stronger, more resilient sourcing organization while enabling teams to deliver greater value to the business.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in areas such as Sourcing & Procurement, Operations, Finance, process improvement, internal financial controls, legal compliance, and/or risk management.
Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels and create an inclusive, challenge-driven environment.
Ability to prioritize work in a dynamic environment
Willingness to travel up to 25% depending on location and business needs
Experience in a manufacturing organization

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering or related field
Experience in complex manufacturing and/or Pulp & Paper Industry
Experience working with multiple business segments within a company

Responsibilities

Own the development of the annual plan based on risk and value, working with and through our designated compliance system owners (CSO) against our compliance standards and internal controls.
Lead the annual risk assessments to identify potential compliance and internal control risks and work with compliance system owners and capability leaders to develop mitigation strategies.
Work with the Process & Training team to embed compliance and internal controls into our standard processes, standard work and leader standard work.
Serve as the Purchasing Policy owner, partnering with capability teams and Finance to make meaningful updates based on benchmarking, regulatory changes, and industry best practices.
Stay up to date with changes in the regulatory requirements and industry best practices by working directly with our GP and Koch compliance teams and sharing knowledge through the capability and ensure standard work & process discipline is adjusted, as needed.
Partner with IT, Finance and the CSC to develop and deploy anomaly detection tool(s) to identify potential high-risk situations.
Own the methodology to assign tier levels to anomalies and deploy investigative resources against tier 1 anomalies, while finding other ways to leverage the data in other tiers.