Vice President, Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement

nVent • St Louis, MN

2h • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions. As nVent continues to scale, we are elevating sourcing into a strategic capability that drives enterprise value, accelerates growth, and structurally improves margins while strengthening global supply resilience and agility. The Vice President, Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement will lead and scale the company’s global sourcing strategy and operating model, delivering enterprise value through cost competitiveness, supplier performance, and capability advancement. This role will drive global category strategy, supplier performance, supplier quality, and procurement capabilities to deliver measurable value, strengthen supplier partnerships, and enhance enterprise competitiveness.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of sourcing, procurement, or supply chain experience.
• 10+ years in senior leadership roles within global, matrixed organizations.
• Proven experience leading sourcing or procurement transformation with measurable outcomes or center-led models.
• Meaningful experience developing future leaders.
• Strong experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier performance and contract negotiation.
• Track record of strong data-driven decision-making.
• Enterprise strategy creation experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing procurement platforms (e.g., S2C systems) preferred.
• Deep understanding of global supply markets and risk management preferred.
• Track record of delivering significant cost savings and productivity improvement preferred.
• Applied AI and digital transformation in sourcing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and deployment of our sourcing operating model (GCM, SRM, SQM, CoE).
• Drive sourcing transformation initiatives aligned to business goals and growth strategy.
• Establish governance, decision rights, and enterprise standards.
• Owns enterprise risk, including geopolitical sourcing strategy, structural risk frameworks, crisis response.
• Define and implement Global Category Management (GCM) strategies across direct and indirect spend.
• Lead major sourcing initiatives including supplier consolidation and strategic sourcing.
• Drive enterprise-wide cost optimization and commercial excellence.
• Own enterprise value delivery, including sourcing productivity, cost-out, and margin impact.
• Drive supplier consolidation and standardization to reduce complexity and improve leverage.
• Establish and scale Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) for critical and strategic suppliers.
• Ensure supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, and innovation.
• Partner with Quality to implement Supplier Quality Management (SQM) standards.
• Build and lead a Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) to standardize processes, enable scale, and drive enterprise capability.
• Enable decision-making through data, analytics, and digital platforms (e.g., Ivalua).
• Standardize sourcing processes, tools, and governance globally.
• Drive resource optimization by aligning existing sourcing capacity to the operating model, optimizing capacity without proportional headcount growth.
• Improve sourcing productivity and reduce transactional complexity.
• Establish a management operating system with key performance initiatives and value tracking.
• Build a high-performing global sourcing organization.
• Strengthen leadership pipeline, succession bench, and capability development.
• Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and enterprise thinking.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

What This Job Offers

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