Vice President Procurement

Mission of the Role (What you’ll be doing):

The Vice President of Procurement will serve as the head of all procurement functions and play a critical role in driving strategic sourcing, supplier performance, risk mitigation, and long-term supply chain optimization. This role will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will be responsible for managing direct and indirect procurement across multiple locations, with a focus on scalability, standardization, and cost efficiency.

This is a high-impact leadership role, ideal for a data-driven, results-oriented procurement executive with experience in private equity environments and a deep understanding of the packaging and/or corrugated converting sectors.

Key Duties & Accountabilities (Primary responsibilities & quantifiable measurements):

• Develop and execute a company-wide procurement strategy aligned with corporate goals and PE value creation plans focused on establishing a preferred vendor program across all major categories.
• Build and lead a high-performing procurement resource team to collaborate and facilitate preferred vendor programs through regional purchasing resources.
• Lead a company-wide procurement council to drive compliance to objectives and share best practices.
• Identify and execute on cost-reduction opportunities, strategic vendor identification including supplier consolidation, strategic growth partnering, and contract negotiations.
• Implement procurement best practices, policies, systems, and tools to drive standardization and transparency.
• Evaluate and optimize supplier performance, ensuring quality, continuity, and competitiveness using quarterly business reviews or other methods.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Finance, and Commercial teams to align sourcing strategies.
• Track KPIs and savings metrics to deliver measurable ROI and operational improvements.
• Oversee risk management strategies related to supply chain disruptions, tariffs and supplier contract and regulatory compliance.
• Support M&A due diligence and integration, including synergy identification and realization initiatives across new acquisitions.

Qualifications (What you’ll need to be successful):

• 10 years of progressive procurement leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a senior or executive role.
• Industry experience in packaging, corrugated converting, or industrial sectors is strongly preferred.
• Proven success working in a private equity-backed or other fast-growth environment.
• Demonstrated track record of leading cost-saving initiatives, driving growth together with strategic vendors, and driving procurement transformation.
• Strong negotiation, contract management, and supplier relationship management skills.
• Experience with ERP systems, procurement software, and analytics tools.
• Excellent strategic thinking, communication, and cross-functional leadership abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

SupplyOne Core Values (Behaviors and values that are essential to be successful in our environment)

• People First - Fosters culture that prioritizes trust and respect, focuses on well-being, growth and development of employees, emphasizes collaboration and honest, open and direct communication, is accountable for actions
• Unique Customer Solutions - Listens to customers and understands their unique needs, goes above and beyond to deliver innovative customer solutions, demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset
• Passion to Serve - Responds quickly to customer needs, delivers on commitments, exhibits a sense of urgency, demonstrates a commitment to making a positive impact on customers, employees and communities, embraces empathy, integrity and compassion in all interactions
• Agility - Quickly adapts to changing customer needs and market dynamics, demonstrates and encourages creativity, flexibility and intelligent risk taking, embraces forward progress and change, open to new ideas
• Growth Focus - Results driven, continuously drives profitable growth, not satisfied with status quo, continuously seeks improvement, embraces stretch goals