Global Strategic Sourcing Director (Center-Led)

Flint Hills Resources; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

John Zink, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Director of Strategic Sourcing to convert global supply markets into a competitive advantage. This leader will build and operate a center-led category-management system across direct materials, fabricated components, engineered systems, lifecycle services, indirect spend and logistics.

The role reports to executive leadership and will lead ten global category managers, coordinating with regional capability leaders to deliver value,

Qualifications

• Experience leading strategic sourcing, category management, procurement or supply-chain in a complex manufacturing, engineer-to-order or project-delivery environment.
• Experience leading global teams, developing talent, and driving organizational change.
• Experience building and executing multi-year category strategies across direct materials, fabricated components, engineered packages and/or services.
• Experience leading negotiations, contracting, total-cost analysis, supplier risk management, and strategic supplier relationships.
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Operations, Finance, Project Management and/or Supplier Quality in technical and schedule-critical work.
• Experience with subcontracting or contract manufacturing, including supplier identification, business-case development, qualification coordination and controlled implementation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the multi-year Strategic Sourcing agenda, category portfolio, talent plan and operating cadence in alignment with growth, cost competitiveness, project execution and aftermarket objectives.
• Establish clear global commercial ownership across the category portfolio and develop fact-based strategies that connect demand, supply markets, cost drivers, risk and implementation to business priorities.
• Lead portfolio prioritization across equipment, engineered systems, contract manufacturing, local-content, low-cost-country development, aftermarket/revamps and enterprise categories.
• Sponsor the highest-value or highest-risk negotiations, make-versus-buy analyses, contract-manufacturing decisions and supplier-relationship interventions.
• Build a Finance-validated value pipeline that distinguishes realized hard savings, cost avoidance, cash and operational value; ensure implementation and leakage are visible.
• Ensure sourcing is involved at proposal, design and project gates early enough to influence requirements, total cost, capacity and lead time without compromising Engineering design authority.
• Establish supplier panels, executive supplier relationship management, category councils and recurring reviews that connect category strategy to product and regional execution.
• Deploy supplier-development resources under GCM strategies to expand qualified capacity in the Americas, EMEA, India and APAC.
• Partner with Procurement Operations to translate category decisions into compliant purchase-order execution and with Supplier Quality to enforce qualification, control-plan and release gates.
• Develop succession, coaching, performance standards and capability-building plans for the Strategic Sourcing team.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Global team leadership

Multi-year category strategies

Negotiations

Cross-functional collaboration

Subcontracting/Contract manufacturing

Job description

John Zink, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Director of Strategic Sourcing to convert global supply markets into a competitive advantage. This leader will build and operate a center-led category-management system across direct materials, fabricated components, engineered systems, lifecycle services, indirect spend and logistics.

The role reports to executive leadership and will lead ten global category managers, coordinating with regional capability leaders to deliver value,