Vice President, Sourcing & Contract Manufacturing Performance

Sol de Janeiro • New York, NY

23d • $250,000 - $290,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President, Sourcing & Contract Manufacturing Performance leads Sol de Janeiro’s global sourcing organization and contract manufacturing strategy, covering Direct and Indirect Procurement, Contract Manufacturing Sourcing, and Supplier Performance Management. Reporting to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, the role develops and executes sourcing strategies that support global growth, innovation, margin objectives, and supply chain resilience. The VP oversees the commercial performance of the global supplier and contract manufacturing network, ensuring the business has appropriate partners, capabilities, capacity, economics, and continuity plans.

The VP is the senior sourcing leader supporting the innovation and commercialization agenda, working with Product & Innovation, Technical Packaging, Planning, Finance, Commercial, Marketing, and other teams. The role ensures new products and components are competitively sourced, commercially negotiated, capacity-secured, and positioned to meet target costs and launch timelines. It also develops enterprise procurement capabilities, including sourcing practices, governance, supplier management, and spend strategies suited to a rapidly growing global beauty business.

The role leads global Direct and Indirect Procurement; category, supplier, and contract manufacturing strategies; competitive sourcing and negotiations; productivity delivery; supplier performance, risk, and resilience; and procurement policies, processes, controls, analytics, and reporting. It leads three Director-level direct reports and a broader team. Product and process engineering, product quality, and new product development remain within Product & Innovation; production planning and day-to-day manufacturing schedule execution remain within Planning.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Manufacturing, and Supplier Management within beauty, CPG, or a similarly fast-paced consumer products environment.
• Proven experience leading global sourcing organizations and managing complex direct material and component spend, indirect procurement, and outsourced manufacturing networks.
• Demonstrated responsibility for contract manufacturing sourcing, commercial negotiations, capacity strategy, supplier relationships, performance management, and network development.
• Experience supporting high-velocity innovation and new product development environments where sourcing speed, cost, capacity, and commercial decisions affect successful launches.
• Strong commercial negotiation skills and understanding of supplier economics, cost structures, competitive sourcing, contracting, and sustainable value creation.
• Ability to work at both strategic and operational levels, from manufacturing network strategy and executive supplier negotiations to reviewing sourcing economics, scorecards, and launch issues.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, including collaboration with Product & Innovation, Packaging, Planning, Finance, Commercial, and Marketing.
• Commercially minded and externally oriented, with an understanding of business priorities and strategic partners’ capabilities, economics, incentives, and constraints.
• Highly analytical, able to use data to guide negotiations, supplier decisions, network strategies, risk assessments, and performance management.
• Experience operating in international and global supply environments and managing suppliers and manufacturing partners across multiple geographies.
• Deep experience with SAP and modern procurement processes, including systems, master data, analytics, and process discipline.
• Ability to operate in a rapidly growing, innovative organization and create structure while maintaining speed and flexibility.
• People leadership experience developing senior sourcing and procurement talent, setting accountability, and building high-performing teams.
• Ability to hold suppliers accountable while building constructive, long-term partnerships.
• Curious, pragmatic, decisive, collaborative, and willing to challenge existing approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global Direct and Indirect Procurement organization and develop sourcing strategies balancing cost, quality, service, innovation, capacity, risk, and speed.
• Own sourcing strategy for externally sourced materials and components supporting finished goods, including packaging components and raw materials.
• Develop category and supplier strategies that secure competitive capabilities, economics, capacity, and geographic options.
• Lead competitive sourcing, RFQ/RFP processes, commercial negotiations, contracting, supplier selection, and commercial management.
• Use market intelligence, cost drivers, benchmarks, spend analytics, and supplier economics to drive fact-based negotiations and sustainable value.
• Partner with Supply Chain teams on value engineering, continuous improvement, and cost-productivity opportunities.
• Deliver productivity savings against the annual operating plan and establish processes to identify, validate, track, and report performance.
• Manage sourcing performance using KPIs including PPV and cost savings, cost avoidance, payment terms, supplier risk and performance, and sourcing support for innovation timelines.
• Engage early in innovation and commercialization to influence sourcing strategy, economics, capacity, and launch readiness.
• Lead sourcing and commercial negotiations for new products, materials, and packaging components, including supplier identification, RFQs, benchmarking, pricing, terms, and capacity commitments.
• Partner with Product & Innovation and Technical Packaging to achieve target sourced costs before commercialization approval while supporting product, quality, brand, and timeline requirements.
• Align sourcing plans with new product development milestones and surface sourcing risks, commercial decisions, supplier constraints, cost pressures, and capacity requirements early.
• Own the global contract manufacturing network strategy, including its capabilities, capacity, geographic footprint, economics, and resilience.
• Participate in evaluating and selecting contract manufacturing partners and own their commercial relationships, agreements, cost structures, capacity commitments, productivity expectations, and executive relationships.
• Lead contract manufacturer performance management across cost and productivity, capacity, business continuity and readiness, and continuous improvement.
• Establish supplier governance, including performance scorecards, QBRs, strategic business reviews, corrective-action governance, and executive relationship management.
• Partner with Planning on capacity requirements and longer-term network needs while maintaining clear accountability for commercial and capacity management versus day-to-day production planning and schedule execution.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen, consolidate, diversify, regionalize, or otherwise evolve the manufacturing network based on growth, economics, capabilities, capacity, and risk.
• Build an enterprise supplier performance framework with clear expectations, measurable standards, scorecards, governance, and accountability.
• Develop proactive supplier risk-management practices covering continuity planning, supplier financial health, geographic and geopolitical exposure, capacity and concentration risk, and dual-sourcing strategies.
• Lead escalation and corrective-action governance for significant supplier commercial or performance issues.
• Develop the enterprise Indirect Procurement capability and prioritize spend categories based on value, risk, business need, and organizational capacity.
• Partner with Commercial and Marketing on strategic sourcing and negotiations for marketing, creative, agency, and other significant external spend.
• Partner with Supply Chain and functional leaders on infrastructure and support investments, including 3PL and logistics contracts, capital investments, technology, software, and strategic services.
• Build functional partnerships that position Procurement as a value-creating commercial partner.
• Own and evolve procurement policies, sourcing processes, approval frameworks, competitive bidding standards, supplier governance, and controls.
• Develop scalable processes and greater visibility into enterprise spend, supplier concentration, sourcing opportunities, contract coverage, performance, and risk.
• Establish metrics, operating rhythms, and reporting on sourcing performance, supplier health, productivity, and key risks and opportunities.
• Leverage SAP for procurement processes, data integrity, spend visibility, supplier management, and performance reporting; identify opportunities to improve procurement technology, analytics, data, and processes.
• Lead and develop the global sourcing and procurement organization, including three Director-level direct reports and a broader team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus program for full-time team members.
• Flexible hybrid work environment with opportunities for collaboration and growth.
• Inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and celebrates individuality.
• Opportunity to be part of a fast-growing, award-winning global beauty brand.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed