Director, Procurement Data & Analytics

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Lead Novolex's procurement analytics transformation through data, insights, and operational excellence.

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Director, Procurement Data & Analytics will lead Novolex’s procurement data and analytics function, overseeing a team of 7 and serving as a strategic leader in advancing data-informed decision-making across the procurement organization. This leader will be responsible for defining and scaling analytics capabilities that improve visibility to spend, savings, supplier performance, compliance, and sourcing effectiveness. The role will partner closely with category leaders, finance, operations, IT, and executive stakeholders to translate complex data into actionable insights, strengthen reporting discipline, and support enterprise procurement transformation. This individual will also champion data governance, reporting standardization, tool optimization, AI-enabled analytical capabilities, and continuous improvement across procurement systems, dashboards, and analytical processes.

Essential Functions & Key Responsibilities

• Procurement Analytics Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of 7 responsible for procurement reporting, analytics, and insight generation across spend, savings, supplier performance, compliance, and sourcing activities.
• Data Strategy & Governance: Establish and maintain strong data governance practices for procurement data, including data quality, master data alignment, KPI definitions, reporting standards, and metric consistency across categories and business units.
• Spend Analytics: Oversee enterprise procurement spend analytics to identify trends, opportunities, risks, leakage, inflation impacts, and value creation opportunities that support sourcing and business decisions.
• Savings & Performance Reporting: Drive standardized savings tracking, procurement performance scorecards, and executive reporting that provide accurate visibility to pipeline, realized savings, productivity, and value delivery.
• Dashboard, Reporting & AI Enablement: Design, enhance, and manage dashboards, scorecards, reporting tools, and AI-enabled analytical solutions that improve access to timely, actionable procurement insights for leadership and stakeholders.
• Supplier & Category Insights: Deliver analytical support for supplier segmentation, supplier performance management, category strategy development, should-cost analysis, benchmarking, and opportunity assessment.
• Cross-Functional Business Partnership: Collaborate with procurement leadership, finance, operations, and other business stakeholders to align analytical priorities with business goals and support strategic decision-making.
• Forecasting & Scenario Analysis: Support budgeting, forecasting, risk assessment, and scenario modeling related to commodity exposure, supplier changes, sourcing events, and procurement initiatives.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to streamline reporting, automate recurring analyses, reduce manual processes, and improve the speed and quality of decision support.
• Executive Communication: Prepare and deliver polished, executive-ready analyses, presentations, and performance updates using Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication tools to clearly communicate insights, risks, and recommendations.

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Finance, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, supply chain analytics, strategic sourcing, finance analytics, or a related function, including significant people leadersh