Director of Strategic Sourcing

Description

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2,000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

The Director of Strategic Sourcing is responsible for leading sourcing strategy, negotiation, and execution across a broad portfolio of spend categories, including raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and indirect goods and services. This role applies a standardized, category-agnostic sourcing framework to drive value across all areas of spend, ensuring cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and risk mitigation in support of enterprise financial and operational objectives.

The Director operates at the intersection of commercial strategy, operations, and finance, delivering measurable impact through disciplined sourcing practices, supplier partnerships, and data-driven decision-making. Success in this role is defined by the ability to apply consistent sourcing principles across multiple categories, rather than deep expertise in any single area.

Pay Range: $125,000 – $190,000/year + Bonus

Hours: 8:00am – 5:00pm

Schedule: Monday – Friday

Location: Hybrid (based in Fresno, CA)

Travel Requirements: 15%

Work Environment: Office/Hybrid

Core Responsibilities:

Category Strategy Development

• Develop and execute multi-year sourcing strategies across key food and beverage categories, including agricultural commodities, ingredients and functional materials, packaging and indirect spend such as freight, warehousing, utilities, MRO, capital equipment, and services.
• Apply consistent sourcing frameworks while adapting to category dynamics, including commodity-based and service-based environments.
• Define and deploy sourcing models such as dual and multi-sourcing strategies, index-based and formula pricing, rate-based and service agreements, and network and supply base optimization.
• Monitor global market conditions including commodities, freight, labor, utilities, tariffs, and foreign exchange, and translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Align sourcing strategies with Integrated Margin Management and enterprise financial targets.

Commercial Negotiation Leadership

• Lead complex negotiations across diverse spend categories, including both goods and services.
• Structure and execute agreements such as commodity and index-linked pricing models, packaging supply agreements, service and rate-based agreements, and capital equipment or project-based sourcing engagements.
• Define clear commercial terms, including pricing mechanisms and escalation logic, service level expectations and performance metrics, volume flexibility, and risk allocation across cost, service, and execution.
• Utilize should-cost models, benchmarking, and market intelligence to drive fact-based negotiations.
• Partner with Legal to ensure contracts are commercially sound and aligned with enterprise risk tolerance.

Execution and Value Realization

• Translate sourcing strategies into tangible business outcomes, including cost savings, inflation mitigation, service improvements, and working capital optimization.
• Lead execution of supplier onboarding, transitions, and supply base changes.
• Deliver against cost savings and margin improvement targets.
• Ensure alignment and execution with Operations, Planning, Quality, and Finance.

Supplier and Partnership Management

• Build and manage strategic supplier relationships across raw materials, packaging, and service providers.
• Establish supplier performance frameworks across cost competitiveness, service and fill rate, quality and compliance, and responsiveness and flexibility.
• Lead regular business reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop partnerships that support innovation, quality, and scalability.

Risk Management and Supply Continuity

• Identify and mitigate risks across both supply-based and service-based categories, including commodity volatility, supply constraints, transportation disruptions, utility and energy exposure, and supplier concentration.
• Develop redundancy strategies and contingency