Strategic Sourcing Director (Systems & Trade Compliance)

Greenheck Group•Schofield, WI

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Strategic Sourcing Director for Greenheck Group, you will provide strategic leadership across Sourcing Systems, Trade Compliance, International Sourcing, and Sourcing Transformation. Your role is crucial in ensuring these functions deliver measurable business impact and enable the sourcing organization to operate efficiently, effectively, and at scale. You will be responsible for developing and executing enterprise-wide strategies that align with corporate and divisional priorities, leveraging technology, automation, market intelligence, and supplier partnerships to strengthen supply chain resilience, compliance, operational excellence, and cost leadership. This role leads transformational initiatives that modernize sourcing capabilities, including systems and SAP optimization, AI-enabled automation, trade compliance programs, and global sourcing strategies, while advancing the organization toward a data-driven, exception-based operating model. You will partner closely with sourcing leaders across business units to provide the platforms, processes, governance, and capabilities that support material procurement and supplier management activities across the enterprise. You will guide leaders and teams responsible for critical global suppliers, international sourcing programs, and compliance activities, ensuring continuity, scalability, risk mitigation, and alignment with group-level and strategic objectives. You will be directly accountable for managing annual international sourcing spend exceeding $80M and influencing sourcing strategies across the company’s $600M+ global supply chain footprint. You will serve as a catalyst for sourcing transformation, systems modernization, trade compliance excellence, and global supplier strategy, driving long-term value creation and organizational competitiveness.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant progressive leadership experience required.
6-8 years of relevant managerial experience required.
4 Year / bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field or equivalent years of job experience required.
Proven track record in supplier selection, negotiation, development, and enterprise sourcing strategy delivering measurable cost reduction and avoidance.
Working knowledge of SAP or comparable ERP, sourcing systems, forecasting tools, and supplier performance management.
Strong command of trade compliance, global sourcing, tariff exposure, country-of-origin requirements, and supplier risk.
Demonstrated executive communication, business case development, change leadership, and stakeholder management in matrixed organizations.
Experience leading digital, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled transformation in sourcing, procurement, or supply chain.
Familiarity with AI-enabled sourcing tools, source-to-pay platforms, advanced analytics, machine learning, ERP bolt-on forecasting tools, or agentic AI concepts.
Discernment for where AI should assist, where systems should automate, and where human judgment must remain in control — translating automation ideas into cycle-time, productivity, cost-avoidance, and decision‑quality outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Graduate Degree, MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead an enterprise sourcing strategy aligned to cost, quality, delivery, innovation, risk, and growth — delivering measurable cost reduction, cost avoidance, and working capital improvement.
Develop supplier strategies that strengthen total cost, commercial leverage, supply continuity, localization, dual sourcing, and long-term capability.
Support enterprise priorities — new product development, capacity expansion, M&A integration, sustainability, tariff mitigation, and global supply chain optimization.
Develop and lead Greenheck's AI and sourcing automation roadmap, focused on practical, measurable business value.
Advance high-value use cases — automatic PO readiness scoring, AI-assisted sourcing event preparation, supplier discovery, RFx and quote analysis, negotiation support, contract review, forecast-drift alerts, buyer exception prioritization, master data cleanup, supplier risk monitoring, and compliance screening.
Establish responsible AI principles and governed workflows — transparency, explainability, approval authority, human-in-the-loop controls, auditability, and compliance — partnering with IT, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Operations, and Legal across SAP, bolt-on forecasting tools, MES, and source-to-pay systems.
Drive sourcing systems strategy and supplier intelligence platforms — selecting, integrating, and scaling tools that strengthen decision quality, accelerate cycle times, and enable AI-driven analytics.
Establish sourcing data governance — supplier records, material attributes, contracts, pricing, lead times, compliance documentation, classifications, and automation-readiness data — as the foundation of enabling reliable AI and automation outcomes.
Lead dashboards and analytics that surface cost risk, supplier performance, sourcing opportunities, tariff exposure, compliance risk, and automation potential — translating data into measurable improvements in decision speed, transaction efficiency, and supplier outcomes.
Lead procurement automation enabled by SAP, SAP bolt-on forecasting tools, and related sourcing systems — scaling auto PO and touchless procurement with Purchasing, Supply Chain, IT, and Master Data.
Define automation-readiness criteria (ABC/XYZ classification, forecast predictability, supplier reliability, master data quality, lead-time stability, MOQ accuracy, price validity, delivery performance, exception history) and apply them to identify parts, suppliers, commodities, and plants ready for automation versus those requiring intervention.
Advance a future-state model where routine transactions are system-driven and sourcing teams focus on exceptions, supplier performance, risk, and strategic value creation.
Govern enterprise trade compliance strategy, policies, and controls — including Buy American, Build America Buy America, and related domestic-content obligations.
Lead denied-party screening, restricted supplier controls, tariff classification, country-of-origin governance, import/export compliance, supplier documentation, and recordkeeping.
Embed compliance into supplier onboarding, sourcing decisions, contracts, and purchasing workflows with Legal, Finance, Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain; deliver leadership analytics on compliance exposure, tariff impact, and cost recovery.
Set strategy for international supplier development, qualification, and performance management across global and low-cost-country programs.
Evaluate global sourcing opportunities through a disciplined total-cost and risk lens — tariff exposure, logistics, geopolitical risk, supplier capability, currency, quality, lead time, and resilience.
Advise senior leadership on global sourcing risk, supplier localization, currency exposure, and international supply chain strategy.