Director - Sourcing

The Role: As the Director – Sourcing, reporting to the Sr. Director – Global Procurement, you will lead and evolve our global procurement organization across complex spend categories. This is a leadership role responsible for defining and executing category sourcing strategies that optimize cost, quality, resilience, and risk, while delivering measurable value to the business. You will lead a team of category managers and buyers, partner closely with executive and cross-functional stakeholders, and shape the long-term sourcing strategy in alignment with corporate objectives. This role requires a strategic thinker with deep market insight, strong negotiation leadership, and a proven ability to drive performance through people, process, and data.

 

How You Will Create Value:

• Define and lead the overall procurement strategy, ensuring strong alignment with corporate objectives and delivering long-term competitive advantage.

• Provide leadership and oversight for complex, high-value negotiations across multiple spend categories, balancing commercial outcomes with risk management.

• Apply deep and broad market intelligence to inform sourcing decisions and support business strategy and performance.

• Lead supplier relationship management across categories, strengthening partnerships, driving performance, and mitigating supply and operational risk.

• Drive the development and strategic use of procurement analytics and data insights to improve decision-making, transparency, and results.

• Manage procurement budgets and performance, demonstrating strong financial acumen and contributing to enterprise-level financial goals.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with executive and senior stakeholders, influencing strategic decisions and acting as a key business advisor.

• Oversee procurement risk governance, ensuring a consistent, proactive approach across all sourcing and supplier activities.

• Sponsor and provide strategic direction for key procurement initiatives and projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities and effective resource allocation.

• Lead, develop, and inspire the procurement organization, fostering a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative culture.

Creating Extraordinary Starts With:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Chemistry or Engineering or Business-related discipline 

• Minimum of 15 years within the chemical industry with at least 10 years of procurement experience

• Minimum of 3 years as a people leader, experience can include leading projects or cross functional teams

• Experience purchasing raw materials in the chemical industry 

• Familiarity with procurement systems. SAP experience preferred

• Experience working within energy markets is a plus

What We Value:

We strive for all employees to nurture physical, mental and emotional health both personally and professionally. Our commitment to health and wellness centers around prevention, early detection and embracing a healthy lifestyle. Some offerings may vary by role or region, but may include:

• Physical Health benefits including competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision packages, company contribution to Health Savings Account, cash incentive for Annual Physical and reimbursement 

• Financial Wellness opportunities including company paid life insurance and disability plans, 401(k) Retirement Plan with generous company match, and certified Financial Planning & Investment services 

• Mental Health benefits including generous Paid Time Off and 10 Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Bonding Leave, and much more!

Essential Solutions with Extraordinary Results

SI Group is a global leader in the innovative technology of performance additives, process solutions, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and chemical intermediates. Our solutions are essential to many diverse industries and applications, creating extraordinary results. We drive value by enhancing the quality, performance, and durability of countless items we use every day. 

We are on a journey to captivate our customers at every level. Whether that means expanding our capabilities, global reach, or providing new innovations and technologies that create value. Our approach is customized to exceed customer needs and deliver superior performance.