Director, Global Strategic Sourcing (Durham, NC)

FTINC Fortrea Inc.; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life

STD/LTD

401(K)

ESPP

PTO or FTO

Company bonus

Job summary

Fortrea is seeking a Director, Global Strategic Sourcing to lead strategy, governance, and performance for key categories across the organization. The role requires building a world-class procurement function and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver value at scale.

The successful candidate will manage a global team, shape talent strategy, and ensure compliance while driving savings and stakeholder satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Deep knowledge of sourcing processes, market trends, benchmarks, and best practices.
• Proven analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Experience leading large, complex sourcing projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a global team of category and sourcing managers with clear roles and performance expectations.
• Own talent strategy including workforce planning, capability development and succession planning.
• Set measurable objectives across the team for savings, service levels, stakeholder satisfaction and compliance.
• Translate enterprise strategy into category priorities and governance across the team.
• Lead multi-functional teams on strategic sourcing initiatives and manage supplier relationships.

Skills

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Decision making

Stakeholder management

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office 365

Forecasting tools

Job description

Job Overview

The Director, Global Strategic Sourcing, is responsible for leading the strategy, design and development of a world‑class strategic sourcing and category management function for one or more categories or segments within Fortrea’s global sourcing scope. This leader must have the interest and ability to work cross functionally with stakeholders across the entire enterprise to ensure that business objectives and strategies are achieved.

Summary of Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

Build, lead, and develop a global team of category and sourcing managers, establishing clear role clarity, performance expectations, and decision rights aligned to Fortrea’s strategic priorities. Create a high‑performance culture by coaching leaders, providing regular performance feedback, and holding managers accountable for results, behaviors, and talent development outcomes. Own talent strategy for assigned categories, including workforce planning, capability development, succession planning, and identification of future leaders within Global Procurement Services. Set and cascade measurable objectives across the team (savings, service levels, stakeholder satisfaction, compliance), ensuring alignment between enterprise priorities and individual goals. Foster an inclusive, growth‑oriented environment that encourages continuous improvement, innovation, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Strategic Leadership

Own the strategy, governance, and performance outcomes for assigned sourcing categories, ensuring category strategies are developed and executed effectively. Hold team leaders accountable for execution quality, including sourcing rigor, supplier performance management, contract compliance, and stakeholder engagement. Serve as an executive escalation point, removing barriers, resolving priority conflicts, and enabling teams to deliver value at scale rather than directly managing routine sourcing activities. Translate enterprise strategy into category‑level priorities, ensuring consistent application of sourcing methodologies, tools, and governance across the team.

Stakeholder & Organizational Leadership

Act as a senior strategic advisor to enterprise leaders, shaping demand, influencing sourcing decisions, and aligning stakeholders to long‑term value creation rather than transactional outcomes. Model and enforce disciplined decision‑making, ensuring teams balance speed, risk, compliance, and value in alignment with Fortrea policies and regulatory requirements.

Execution

Lead and project manage multi-functional stakeholder teams on specific strategic sourcing initiatives or projects, including RFX’s, to ensure benefit realization and drive value through supplier relationship management within the assigned categories. Conduct regular contract review meetings with suppliers and key stakeholders to ensure supplier performance is meeting expectations, contractual commitments, and service levels and that any concerns are communicated in a timely manner ensuring the avoidance of service disruption and stakeholder dissatisfaction. Provide advice on all procurement related issues and discuss detailed contractual issues on a wide and varied portfolio with stakeholders to ensure that (i) contractual terms and obligations are fully understood, (ii) both financial, operational, and supply risks are minimized, and (iii) stakeholders fully understand and remain in compliance with finance, legal and procurement procedures. Verify the relevance of the sourcing strategy by consulting with leaders, understanding external market trends, monitoring business conditions and priorities, being attentive to business objectives and continually validating, evolving, and adjusting the suitability of the functions' strategic objectives to ensure alignment.

Qualifications (Minimum Required)

• Bachelor's degree
• A deep knowledge of sourcing processes, market trends, benchmarks, and best practices across categories under management
• In-depth knowledge of category strategy, management and sourcing, methodologies, and best practices
• Proven analytical skills, and demonstrated ability to solve complex problems to drive value
• Deep business and financial acumen and strong strategic and conceptual skills
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills
• Working knowledge of data analysis and forecasting tools and ability to develop actionable insights from data
• Interpersonal skills and ability to build, develop and maintain trusted relationships both internally and externally
• Attention to detail and analysis accuracy
• Ability to make decisions and commit to completion dates
• Ability to troubleshoot issues of high complexity
• Microsoft Office365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)
• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.

Experience (Minimum Required)

• Demonstrated team leadership experience
• Experience working in a matrixed business environment, leading multiple commitments and collaborators while prioritizing conflicting demands, maintaining focus on the objective, and providing high quality service to both internal and external partners
• Specific experience in leading large, complex sourcing projects and supporting Senior Leadership on development of the sourcing strategy, management of risks and issues and the execution of the project to deliver the greatest value for money for the organization
• Developing and executing clear category management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and cost reduction strategies

Pay Range

$160,000-$170,000 (The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity)

Working Arrangements

Hybrid role with the expectation to work within our Durham headquarters 3 days each week.

Benefits

All job offers will be based on a candidate’s skills and prior relevant experience, applicable degrees/certifications, as well as internal equity and market data. Regular, full-time or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• STD/LTD
• 401(K)
• ESPP
• Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO)
• Company bonus where applicable

Physical Demands/Work Environment

Work Environment: Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.

Physical Requirements: Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck. Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.

Application deadline

September 30, 2026

Company Culture

At Fortrea, we're all about turning the “impossible” into "I'm possible." Together, we break barriers to deliver exceptional service to our patients, fueled by a shared commitment to teamwork and excellence. Regardless of your role, we're all family, working together to achieve extraordinary results. At Fortrea, your career isn't just a job – it's a journey of making the exceptional possible, every day.