Direct Hire Supply Chain & Procurement Director
About The Position
Direct Hire Base Salary $180k-$240k first year bonus 30% second year bonus 40% base. The mandate is to address margin leakage through the supply base. The role involves identifying, capturing, and establishing a sustainable sourcing function. This position has a direct impact on EBITDA, requiring quantified and validated savings against a real baseline that reaches the P&L. The Director will own the full spend baseline and category segmentation, vendor contract renegotiation, supply base diversification, raw material strategy, inventory strategy, implementation of forecasting tools, sales and operations planning, and supplier performance management.
Requirements
- 12+ years in supply chain, procurement, or integrated sourcing, with director-level ownership
- Demonstrated, verifiable savings capture — you can walk through the baseline, the mechanism, and the 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; enough technical fluency to evaluate a vendor claim
- Comfort renegotiating from a weak position when the supplier knows it
Nice To Haves
- Tariff and trade compliance exposure
- Nearshoring supplier qualification
- Distressed or liquidity-constrained environments
- VDS-adjacent procurement consulting methodology experience
Responsibilities
- Full spend baseline and category segmentation, typically inside the first month
- Vendor contract renegotiation across the top spend categories
- Supply base diversification and dual-sourcing for single-source and geographically concentrated exposure
- Raw material strategy, including tariff, freight, and commodity risk
- Inventory strategy: right-sizing, positioning against actual demand variability, and freeing working capital
- Implementation of demand and inventory forecasting tools, including AI-driven planning where the data supports it
- Sales and operations planning cadence, where one does not already function
- Supplier performance management and scorecarding
Benefits
- First year bonus 30%
- Second year bonus 40%
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
