Director of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

Who You Are: You are a seasoned sourcing & procurement professional with experience building and owning sourcing strategies.  You have experience in change management, enjoy mentoring teams, and can adapt and thrive in high-growth environments. You are skilled at driving alignment across leadership and maintain a thoughtful and collaborative approach as you work across teams. You are goal-oriented, curious, and passionate about leveraging business as a force for good, driving positive impact through the supply chain. The Task at Hand: The Director of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement defines and leads enterprise sourcing strategies that strengthen supply chain resiliency, enable long-term, sustainable growth, and support vertical integration opportunities. The Director will set sourcing & procurement priorities that balance cost, quality, innovation, and efficiency considerations while upholding our Public Benefit Corporation commitments, organic standards, sustainability goals, and high integrity supply chain practices. The Director will be accountable for large spend portfolios, delivering cost savings and value creation and managing total cost of ownership. This role is responsible for team development, leads cross-functional alignment, and establishing frameworks and decision models to support company growth and resiliency. In This Role, You Will: Lead, develop, and scale the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Operations teams, building functional maturity in strategic negotiation, supplier management, cost modeling, risk management and cross-functional execution. Build organizational capability by clarifying roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and cross-functional ways of working. Develop team talent through coaching, performance management and change management. Work with leadership to establish clear KPIs and accountability mechanisms to drive performance. Support with executive communications on supply risk and sourcing strategies. Partner with cross functional leaders in QA, Trade, Ops, Innovation, and Sustainability to align sourcing and procurement priorities with company growth, margin, operational and risk management objectives.. Work with supervisor to develop strategic plan for the department as the company scales to ensure consistent priorities between procurement and sourcing  Own the sourcing and procurement performance agenda, including cost savings & avoidance, inflation mitigation, supplier leverage, working capital improvement, risk reduction, supply assurance, and supplier-enabled innovation. Partner with FP&A on margin forecasting, inflation assumptions, commodity outlooks, annual operation plan, EBITDA optimization, and working capital targets. Strategic Sourcing Develop and execute category and multi-year strategies aligned to growth, margin targets, EBITDA optimization, sustainability goals, innovation priorities, and supply continuity objectives. Build differentiated sourcing models that create competitive advantage, including direct sourcing, grower relationships, regional sourcing networks, strategic partnerships, exclusive supply arrangements, and more. Evaluate upstream and long term supply opportunities, including grower-direct models, dedicated acreage, tolling arrangements, co-investment opportunities and make-versus-buy decisions that improve control, transparency, cost, quality and assurance. Diversify the  supply base to reduce climate, geographic, and crop risk exposure. Maintain visibility and accountability for addressable spend across assigned direct, indirect, and operational categories, prioritizing sourcing strategies based on business impact, risk, margin opportunity, sustainability impact, and long-term strategic importance. Partner with Sustainability to advance transparency, organic resiliency, responsible sourcing, social and environmental improvements, while protecting continuity of supply, cost competitiveness, quality, and operational flexibility. Review and approve major supplier agreements and strategic contracts. Ensure disciplined negotiation processes and commercial rigor across categories Oversee supplier segmentation, performance management and scorecards and quarterly business reviews to drive accountability and continuity of supply.  Procurement Operations Develop and continuously improve scalable procurement processes and governance frameworks. Including: policies, workflows, effective MRP utilization, demand and supply alignment, PO accuracy, spend control, and compliance with negotiated agreements. Oversee purchasing teams managing the full PO lifecycle execution, purchasing controls, issue resolution, service-level performance, and continuous improvement Ensure alignment between procurement, demand planning, and S&OP. Track and manage key performance indicators including cost savings, cost avoidance, OTIF, inventory turns, quality performance, and supplier compliance.  Monitor inventory health, shelf-life exposure, excess and obsolete risks to mitigate waste in the supply chain. Partner with cross-functional leadership to proactively manage supplier performance and corrective actions. Planning & Commercial Strategy Develop sourcing & procurement plans integrated with demand planning, supply planning, innovation timelines, commercialization needs, and annual operation plan assumptions, ensuring strategies support business needs and growth. Lead long-range planning for critical materials and suppliers, including capacity planning, supply availability, crop outlooks, supplier readiness, and risk mitigation needs. Leverage market intelligence, commodity outlooks, sustainability data, and cost modeling to guide category strategies and business recommendations In This Role, You’ll Bring With You: 10+ years of progressive experience in Strategic Sourcing and Procurement within food or CPG. Demonstrated experience leading and developing procurement and sourcing teams. Direct experience with organic ingredient sourcing and