Plant Procurement Director: Build & Elevate the Team

Murdoch Mason Executive Search Group; McMinnville (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Murdoch Mason Executive Search Group partnered with a growing McMinnville, Oregon manufacturing operation to recruit a Procurement Director. This on-site plant leadership role offers visibility, influence, and the opportunity to build and elevate procurement capabilities beyond traditional sourcing.

The leader will drive strategic supplier management, cross-functional collaboration, and structured processes to improve cost, service, quality, and delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading procurement in a manufacturing setting.
• Direct exposure to production-facing procurement needs.
• Experience across direct materials, ingredients, packaging, and indirect categories is valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement activities across raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and indirect spend in support of production.
• Build and lead a site-based procurement team with clear expectations and improved day-to-day execution.
• Develop and elevate team members while strengthening capabilities the function needs going forward.
• Create more structure across priorities, routines, communication, and follow-through for greater consistency and discipline.
• Improve areas of the function not performing at required levels, including people, processes, decision-making, and execution.
• Partner with operations, planning, quality, finance, and site leadership as a true plant partner.
• Strengthen supplier relationships and improve cost, service, quality, and continuity of supply.
• Negotiate pricing and supply agreements aligned with business needs.
• Improve visibility into purchasing activity, supplier performance, and key cost drivers.
• Support stronger inventory discipline and material flow in a production-driven environment.
• Bring urgency and sound judgment as priorities shift and procurement decisions affect plant performance.
• Help build cross-functional ways of working so procurement is a credible, value-added function.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Plant procurement experience

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

ERP systems

Job description

Murdoch Mason Executive Search Group partnered with a growing McMinnville, Oregon manufacturing operation to recruit a Procurement Director. This on-site plant leadership role offers visibility, influence, and the opportunity to build and elevate procurement capabilities beyond traditional sourcing.

The leader will drive strategic supplier management, cross-functional collaboration, and structured processes to improve cost, service, quality, and delivery.