Director, Global Strategic Sourcing

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John Zink, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Director of Strategic Sourcing to convert global supply markets, supplier capability and commercial rigor into a competitive advantage.

This leader will build and operate a center-led category-management system across direct materials, fabricated components, engineered systems, lifecycle services, indirect spend and logistics.

The role is accountable for translating business strategy, product and project demand, aftermarket priorities and manufacturing needs into an executable multi-year sourcing portfolio.

The successful candidate will lead through ten global category managers, reporting through four regional supplier-development resources and focused capability leaders, while preserving clear technical, quality and expenditure decision gates.

What You Will Do


* Develop and execute the multi-year Strategic Sourcing agenda, category portfolio, talent plan and operating cadence in alignment with John Zink growth, cost competitiveness, project execution and aftermarket objectives.


* Establish clear global commercial ownership across the category portfolio and develop fact-based strategies that connect demand, supply markets, cost drivers, risk and implementation to business priorities.


* Lead portfolio prioritization across equipment, engineered systems, contract manufacturing, local-content, low-cost-country development, aftermarket/revamps and enterprise categories.


* Sponsor the highest-value or highest-risk negotiations, make-versus-buy analyses, contract-manufacturing decisions and supplier-relationship interventions.


* Build a Finance-validated value pipeline that distinguishes realized hard savings, cost avoidance, cash and operational value; ensure implementation and leakage are visible.


* Ensure sourcing is involved at proposal, design and project gates early enough to influence requirements, total cost, capacity and lead time without compromising Engineering design authority.


* Establish supplier panels, executive supplier relationship management, category councils and recurring reviews that connect category strategy to product and regional execution.


* Deploy supplier-development resources under GCM strategies to expand qualified capacity in the Americas, EMEA, India and APAC.


* Partner with Procurement Operations to translate category decisions into compliant purchase-order execution and with Supplier Quality to enforce qualification, control-plan and release gates.


* Develop succession, coaching, performance standards and capability-building plans for the Strategic Sourcing team.

Decision Rights and Boundaries


* Approves category strategies, supplier panels and commercial award recommendations within delegated authority; escalates exceptions and commitments outside authority.


* Owns Strategic Sourcing standards, category-governance design, accountable-owner assignment, portfolio sequencing, talent, an...