Procurement Manager - North America

Elchemy; New York (NY); On-site; USD 96,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Elchemy is seeking a Procurement Manager for North America to lead sourcing, supplier management, and cost optimization initiatives. This pivotal role, requiring 10+ years of experience, offers the chance to impact the company's competitive edge in the chemical sector. Enjoy high autonomy, competitive salary, and the opportunity to work across international teams in a fast-growing tech-enabled startup.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits

High degree of autonomy in strategy building

Cross-cultural exposure

Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven experience in procurement, especially in North America.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to build supplier relationships.
• Experience in the chemical industry, particularly personal care or flavors.

Responsibilities

• Develop sourcing strategies aligned with customer needs in the U.S. and Canada.
• Manage supplier relationships and ensure compliance with quality expectations.
• Drive cost optimization through negotiations and alternative sourcing strategies.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Leadership

Analytical Thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

We are looking for a Procurement Manager – North America to lead our sourcing, supplier management, and cost optimization efforts for North American clients. This role is critical in enabling Elchemy to deliver reliable, compliant, and competitively priced products from global sources (especially North America) to our U.S. customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Sourcing: Build and execute sourcing strategies aligned with customer needs across the U.S. and Canadian markets.
• Supplier Management: Evaluate, onboard, and manage relationships with domestic and global chemical suppliers. Ensure suppliers meet quality, pricing, and delivery expectations.
• Cost Optimization: Drive margin improvement through better negotiations, alternative sourcing, and bulk purchasing strategies.
• Cross-border Coordination: Work closely with Elchemy’s India-based teams to coordinate procurement, quality checks, and logistics execution.
• Risk Management: Monitor supplier performance, lead time variability, and quality risks; build redundancies in the supply chain.
• Documentation & Compliance: Ensure suppliers comply with customer-specific documentation requirements (e.g., COA, COO, Packaging Lists) and regional regulations (Prop65, TSCA, etc.).
• Market Intelligence: Stay on top of industry trends, price movements, and geopolitical developments that impact chemical trade flows.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with strong presentation capabilities.
• 10+ years of proven experience in leading procurement efforts, particularly in the North America market for chemicals, preferably personal care or flavors and fragrance segments.
• Highly driven, ambitious, and passionate about procurement, sales & building businesses
• Preferred qualities include entrepreneurial mindset, strong techno-commercial acumen, excellent networking skills, ownership, commitment, and high emotional intelligence.

About Elchemy:

Elchemy is a tech-enabled distributor of chemicals with an expertise in international sourcing. Our vision is to become the largest global speciality chemicals distributor focussing on discovery and fulfilment using a tech-first approach. Chemicals is an extremely important large and fragmented market with multiple inefficiencies in cross border supply chains. The global speciality chemicals market is $800bn growing at a CAGR of 5.7%. The industry faces glaring challenges including lack of trust, excessive lead times, quality uncertainty, lack of transparency and tons of operational challenges. In the past 4 years of the company's existence, we have scaled up our operations serving in more than 40 countries and have active partnerships with 100s of customers and suppliers across the world. We are now expanding in the North American market with a special focus on personal care, cosmetics, fragrances & home care industry. The company has raised a total of upwards of $7.5mn from marquee investors like InfoEdge Ventures and Prime Venture Partners. We want to create a team with A-players and rockstars in all roles. When such a team comes together, no vision seems unachievable, and everyone pushes to deliver outstanding results.

What’s in it for you:

• Be part of a fast-growing, VC-backed startup solving a real-world global supply chain problem
• Enjoy a high degree of autonomy and ownership in building our North American procurement strategy
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Excellent group of peers and cross-cultural exposure

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing and Supply Chain

• Industries

  Chemical Manufacturing

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