Vice President of Procurement

Misura Group; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Misura Group is seeking a VP-level procurement leader to build the next generation of traders and buyers across lumber, panels, and forest products. You will own landed cost, working capital, and supplier performance in a large, matrixed organization with both domestic and international scope.

You will design vendor evaluation processes, lead regional programs, and develop a formal training pipeline while maintaining high quality and reliability of supply.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of large teams (20+ direct/indirect reports).
• Track record of training, developing, and promoting talent.
• Experience leading in a matrixed, multi-stakeholder organization.
• Strong negotiation and vendor evaluation experience at scale.
• Strategic/process thinking beyond transactional buying.
• Ability to balance flexibility with disciplined procurement discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead a procurement organization of ~25 with 3 director-level reports.
• Oversee supplier evaluation, program negotiations, and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Manage inbound logistics relationships, including freight and VMI programs.
• Develop training pipelines for buyers and traders and succession plans.
• Present market and performance updates to senior leadership.

Skills

Leadership

People development

Cross-functional leadership

Negotiation skills

Strategic thinking

Cultural bridge

Job description

Our client is one of the largest wood product producers and distributors in the US and among North America's top buyers of forest products, purchasing lumber and panel products directly from mills across multiple locations. This seat manages annual spend in the billions, making it one of the biggest procurement roles in the industry.

This is a newly reshaped VP role sitting inside a large, sophisticated procurement organization. The company is not asking this leader to be the best trader in the room. It is asking this leader to build the next generation of traders and buyers, as the current bench of experienced commodity talent is aging out across the entire industry and there is no pipeline behind it.

The Opportunity

This role takes ownership of a team of roughly 25, structured under 3 director-level direct reports, each managing 8-15 people, along with direct, mill-level purchasing relationships across the company's core wood products categories, including lumber, panels, and other forest products, domestic and international. Landed cost and working capital performance across the buying and replenishment function fall under this leader's ownership, without sacrificing quality or reliability of supply, while building and formalizing a training and development pipeline for buyers and traders, including people who may come from outside the industry entirely.

On the supplier side, this role designs and runs vendor quotation evaluation, national and regional program negotiation, category reviews, supplier performance tracking, and program compliance, while identifying and capturing cost-reduction opportunities through smarter buying patterns and supply channels, including lumber reload and vendor-managed inventory (VMI) programs. Sourcing of inbound truck and rail freight, where the company manages it directly, falls within scope as well, applying the same cost and reliability lens as core product buying, along with preparing and presenting market reports and supply chain performance updates to senior executive leadership.

Cross-functional partnership with logistics, finance, and sales leadership spans a large, matrixed organization with a national and international footprint, and the role represents the function with mills, operators, and customers in the field, roughly 30% of the time.

Success in this role looks like a visible, credible bench of developed buyers and traders within 2-3 years, and strong, self-built relationships with mills and key accounts, even without industry tenure going in. It means a structured, disciplined function that still respects and channels the personalities and instincts that make good traders good, and trusted cross-functional partner status across a large organization, not just within the buying function.

What You Will Need to Be Successful

• Proven leadership of a team of 20+ people, with several leaders reporting up through you
• A track record of training, developing, and promoting people
• History of cross-functional leadership, operating inside a large, multi-stakeholder, matrixed organization
• Strong negotiation skills and experience running a formal vendor evaluation and supplier-alignment process, including national or regional program negotiations
• Strategic and process systems thinking beyond the transaction
• Ability to lead a Cultural Bridge: harnessing the cowboy while installing the discipline