Regional Purchasing Manager - Containerboard

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is currently seeking a Regional Purchasing Manager for our containerboard operations.

The ideal candidate is a talented leader with both strategic and tactical purchasing and inventory experience, has proven supervisory experience, has a track record of creating value through building strong working relationships with a diverse group of customers, has demonstrated a principled entrepreneurial mindset, and possesses the ability to build a capability that delivers a supply chain with an optimized total cost of ownership to operations.

This role reports to the Procurement Director, Containerboard and Cellulose.

This is an onsite role that can be based at GP Center in downtown Atlanta, GA, or one of our manufacturing facilities located in Monticello, MS, Toledo, OR, Brewton, AL, or Big Island, VA.

This role will travel ~30-50% of the time.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities.

The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

What You Will Do



* Manage and lead direct reports leveraging principle based management and role of a supervisor (create inclusive environment, build high performing team, help employees self actualize)


* Leverage comparative advantage of the team and adjust RRE's to maximize results for GP


* Connect team to SS&P vision, operations vision, accelerated sourcing transformation, accelerated manufacturing transformation and how roles directly impact our ability to achieve the bets


* Contribute as a key member of the SS&P organization and the containerboard leadership teams and own strategic business responsibilities as designated by senior management.


* Organize the team to execute standard work processes and achieve disciplined operations in Sourcing Execution


* Manage and be accountable for containerboard spend against defined buying channels, category strategies and financial controls.


* Manage and be accountable for purchasing operations across a multiple number of facilities with high levels of spend in high volume, multi-commodity environments.


* Develop strong partnerships internally and externally, aligning with strategic initiatives, commitments and supply chain strategies.


* Lead a team of purchasing professionals to excellence in stewardship


* Ensure purchasing departments are disciplined, optimized, reliable, support a defined asset maintenance work process and are supported by corporate leadership and mill operation teams.


* Develop category strategies where applicable


* Drive purchasing and inventory transformation, implement changes, conduct root cause analysis, and implemen...