VP, Global Sourcing

Enterprise Sourcing Strategy

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global sourcing strategy across multiple business units and spend categories aligned with the company's long-term business objectives.

• Identify opportunities to optimize spend, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and create measurable enterprise value.

• Develop forward-looking sourcing strategies that anticipate changing economic conditions, geopolitical risks, commodity markets, supplier capabilities, and evolving business priorities.

• Continuously evaluate global supply markets to identify opportunities for innovation, supplier diversification, operational efficiencies, and competitive advantage.

• Lead complex global supplier negotiations and cultivate strategic partnerships that ensure a resilient, competitive supply base while advancing quality, innovation, sustainability, and long-term business growth.

Executive Leadership

• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing global organization, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Coach and mentor leaders across multiple functions and geographies while building organizational capability and succession strength.

• Evaluate organizational structure, capabilities, and operating models to ensure the sourcing function continues to evolve alongside the business.

Enterprise Partnership & Influence

• Serve as the enterprise leader for global sourcing, partnering with executive leadership and business unit leaders to align sourcing strategies with evolving business priorities and drive enterprise-wide value.

• Build trusted relationships and lead through influence across a highly matrixed organization, balancing competing priorities while advancing company-wide sourcing initiatives.

• Partner with the Purchasing Board to foster collaboration, governance, and alignment across the enterprise.

Functional Leadership

• Provide executive oversight for enterprise sourcing functions including Global Sourcing, Asia-Pacific Sourcing, Sourcing Analytics & Planning, Technical Packaging Engineering, Logistics, Travel & Fleet, and the New Product Development (NPD) team.

• Provide strategic leadership for the Technical Packaging Engineering team, ensuring packaging solutions balance innovation, quality, manufacturability, sustainability, cost, and supply chain performance across the company's portfolio of brands.

• Ensure these functions operate as an integrated enterprise organization that delivers strategic value and consistent service across the company's portfolio of businesses.

• Foster collaboration between centralized sourcing and business unit leaders to drive alignment, transparency, and shared accountability.

Operational Excellence

• Establish and monitor KPIs that measure supplier performance, cost savings, service levels, operational effectiveness, and enterprise value creation.

• Leverage data, analytics, and market intelligence to inform sourcing decisions and measure business impact.

• Drive continuous improvement across sourcing processes, systems, governance, and supplier performance.

• Balance quality, service, innovation, risk, and total cost of ownership in sourcing decisions.