director, Equipment Sourcing - Global Supply Chain

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The Director, Equipment Sourcing is a senior player-coach role responsible for leading and executing end-to-end sourcing activities across the company’s equipment spend portfolio (<$1B). Reporting to the Vice President of Indirect Sourcing within Global Supply Chain Organization, this leader is accountable for delivering measurable cost savings, robust contract structures, and supplier relationships that directly enable the company’s business strategy.

The Director is expected to lead a high-performing sourcing team while personally executing on the most complex, high-value, and strategically sensitive sourcing initiatives. Success in this role requires deep category expertise, commercial sharpness, organizational credibility, and the ability to operate effectively at the intersection of procurement, technology, and business operations in a fast-moving retail environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Sourcing & Category Leadership

• Own and continuously evolve the multi-year equipment category sourcing strategy, covering strategic equipment, front of house, back of house and small wares.

• Lead competitive sourcing events (RFx, auctions, negotiations) for high-value and strategic contracts, personally managing the most complex deals

• Develop and apply differentiated sourcing strategies — including total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling, should-cost analysis, supply market analysis, and demand management — to drive best-in-class commercial outcomes

• Maintain a rigorous, multi-year pipeline of sourcing initiatives aligned to business priorities and committed savings targets

• Benchmark supplier pricing, contract terms, and SLAs against market standards; use data to challenge the status quo

Contract Management & Risk

• Structure, negotiate, and execute complex commercial agreements including enterprise master service agreements (MSAs) & statements of work (SOWs)

• Drive favorable contracting terms

• Partner internally to ensure contracts meet enterprise risk, regulatory, and compliance standards

• Establish and enforce contract lifecycle management (CLM) discipline across the equipment category, including renewals, amendments, and ongoing obligation tracking

• Proactively identify and mitigate supplier concentration risk, single points of failure, and financial/operational vendor risk

Enterprise Systems & Digital Procurement

• Champion and optimize the use of procurement technology platforms including e-sourcing, CLM, supplier relationship management (SRM), and spend analytics tools

• Drive adoption of digital sourcing practices including data-driven supplier segmentation, automated intake workflows, and AI-assisted market intelligence

Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary procurement business partner to business unit leaders across the organization, including the research & development organization and functional leaders in areas such as finance, operations, HR, marketing, and store operations

• Establish trusted advisor relationships with senior stakeholders by combining commercial expertise with a genuine understanding of their business needs and constraints

• Lead sourcing governance forums, executive briefings, and category reviews with senior leadership; communicate clearly on risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs

• Navigate organizational complexity and competing stakeholder priorities with pragmatism and sound judgment

• Influence without authority — the role operates in a matrixed environment and requires the ability to align stakeholders who do not report into the sourcing function<