Senior Procurement Manager - Chemicals & Raw Materials

Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC in New York seeks a Senior Procurement Manager for Chemicals & Raw Materials to lead category strategies, supplier relationships, and cost reduction initiatives. You will drive sourcing events, manage risk, and align supply with production plans, while coaching a small team and partnering with Operations and Finance to deliver value. Excellent leadership and negotiation skills are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, chemicals, raw materials, or supply planning within a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated leadership of people and cross-functional teams across multiple sites.
• Strong command of negotiations, contracts, supplier economics, market indices, cost modeling and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and day-to-day execution of chemicals and raw-material portfolio; manage sourcing, purchasing, inventory management and material planning.
• Own category strategies, negotiations, contracts, supplier performance and cost-savings delivery.
• Ensure timely execution of tactical activities and intervene during shortages or supplier issues to protect mill operations.
• Lead a small team with potential to expand as portfolio grows; set priorities and ensure follow-through.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiations

Leadership

Inventory management

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, supply chain, business

Job description

Senior Procurement Manager - Chemicals & Raw Materials

• Pay or shift range: $95,000 USD to $130,000 USD
• The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Description

Role Scope

The Senior Manager, Procurement - Chemicals & Raw Materials leads the strategy and day-to-day execution of Twin Rivers' chemicals and raw-material portfolio, including strategic sourcing, purchasing, inventory management, material planning, supplier performance, supply assurance, and continuous improvement across the manufacturing network.

• Lead and develop the current team responsible for purchase-order entry, inventory management, raw-material planning, delivery coordination, and resolution of supplier execution issues; adapt the team structure as business needs evolve.
• Own category strategies, sourcing, negotiations, contracts, supplier performance, budgeting, market intelligence, risk management, and cost-savings delivery.
• Ensure tactical activities are executed accurately and on time, while stepping in directly when shortages, delivery failures, purchase-order issues, or other supplier challenges threaten mill operations.
• Lead, coach, and hold accountable a small hands-on team, currently two employees, with the ability to expand the organization as the portfolio and business needs grow.
• Balance long-range category leadership with daily operational oversight; set priorities, clarify responsibilities, review exceptions, and ensure follow-through.
• Provide governance for requisitions and purchase orders, inventory targets, material plans, delivery schedules, supplier escalations, and constrained-material allocation.
• Create a practical operating cadence that gives the team clear priorities while providing Operations and leadership visibility to risks, actions, owners, and due dates.

Strategic Category & Supplier Management

• Develop multi-year category strategies by chemical family and raw-material segment, including demand outlook, cost drivers, supply-market structure, risk exposure, sourcing options, and negotiation roadmaps.
• Lead major sourcing events, negotiations, and contract strategies, with emphasis on total cost, index integrity, service, quality, payment terms, liability protection, and supply security.
• Segment suppliers and lead strategic-business reviews, joint value creation, innovation pipelines, and corrective-action plans.
• Create qualified alternatives, dual-source critical materials where economically justified, and maintain contingency plans for high-risk supply chains. Work closely with product development and technical teams.
• Use market intelligence and cost models to challenge supplier pricing, anticipate supply-demand shifts, and improve commercial leverage.

Planning, Inventory & Supply Assurance

• Set inventory strategy and target ranges by material, site, lead time, criticality, shelf life, storage capacity, and disruption risk.
• Ensure raw-material plans align with production schedules, forecast changes, shutdowns, supplier constraints, transportation realities, and cash objectives.
• Drive reduction of excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and off-spec inventory while protecting mill continuity and customer commitments.
• Lead cross-functional responses to shortages, force majeure events, quality failures, logistics disruptions, and abrupt market changes.
• Improve planning parameters, master data, visibility, and exception-based management
• Lead and develop a continuous-improvement pipeline across chemicals, raw materials, inventory, and planning, with clear priorities, owners, milestones, and financial impact.
• Actively govern and engage in execution of the savings portfolio, removing barriers and tracking initiatives from validated opportunity through implementation, Finance confirmation, and sustained results.
• Mobilize and support direct reports and cross-functional teams to deliver cost reduction, consumption improvement, standardization, substitution, waste reduction, and working-capital initiatives.

Financial Impact & Business Partnership

• Develop the annual commodity and raw-material budget, including price, volume, mix, usage, freight, surcharge, and inventory assumptions.
• Own the cost-savings and value-delivery agenda; track realized savings, cost avoidance, purchase-price variance, working capital, supplier performance, and contract compliance with Finance.
• Partner with Operations and Technical teams on consumption reduction, substitution, standardization, and value-engineering opportunities.
• Translate commodity movements and supply risks into concise executive recommendations, scenarios, and required decisions.

Success Measures

• Supply continuity and critical-material risk reduction
• Strategic sourcing plans executed and contracts implemented
• Delivered cost performance versus budget and market
• Inventory health, working capital, and stockout prevention
• Savings pipeline, implementation, financial validation, and sustained realization
• Team capability, accountability, and succession readiness

Qualifications & Leadership Profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, supply chain, business, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, chemicals, raw materials, or supply planning within a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated leadership of people and cross-functional teams, including the ability to set direction, coach talent, and drive accountability across multiple sites.
• Strong command of negotiations, contracts, supplier economics, market indices, cost modeling, budgeting, and risk management.
• Working knowledge of inventory management, materials planning, MRP/ERP processes, and manufacturing operating requirements.
• Pulp and paper, specialty chemicals, or process-industry experience strongly preferred.
• Executive-level communication, sound commercial judgment, and the ability to move between strategy, analytics, and urgent operational execution.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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