Director, Global Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain

Position Overview

The Director, Global Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain leads IEG's transition from a transactional procurement model to a strategic sourcing organization. This role owns the expansion and diversification of IEG's supply partner base across the United States and globally, developing new supplier relationships in key categories while strengthening the performance, resilience, and cost position of the existing base. In addition to the strategic sourcing mandate, this leader directs day-to-day North American supply chain operations through a team of experienced supply chain and procurement professionals, ensuring continuity of purchasing, planning, and inventory management while the sourcing transformation takes hold. The role is central to IEG's growth strategy as a PE-backed platform, supporting margin expansion, supply resilience, and acquisition integration across multiple US locations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Base Expansion, and Rationalization

• Design and execute a multi-year strategic sourcing roadmap that expands IEG's qualified supplier base in the US and globally while rationalizing underperforming or redundant suppliers.
• Own end-to-end supplier rationalization: segment the existing base, exit or consolidate suppliers that do not meet cost, quality, or delivery standards, and re-award volume to strategic partners.
• Lead low-cost country source development as a core mandate, building qualified supply in Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, including on-site qualification, first-article and PPAP-style validation, and ramp management.
• Identify, qualify, and onboard new supply partners for key direct material categories, including steel, plastic resin and molded components, fabricated components, hydraulics, electrical components, and service parts.
• Establish dual-source and regional-source coverage for critical categories to reduce single-supplier risk and improve lead time performance.
• Lead RFQ, negotiation, and contracting processes for strategic categories, delivering measurable year-over-year cost savings.
• Monitor tariff, trade, and geopolitical developments and build sourcing strategies that mitigate landed cost and continuity risk.

Supplier Development and Performance Management

• Build a structured supplier development program that raises the capability of strategic partners through capacity and quality audits, corrective action management, and joint improvement plans.
• Develop supplier scorecards and a supplier relationship management cadence covering quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness, with clear consequences tied to rationalization decisions.
• Cultivate executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers to secure capacity, priority, and innovation access as IEG grows.

Commodity and Category Management

• Serve as IEG's commodity leader for steel and plastic resin, developing category strategies that manage index exposure, timing of buys, and contract structures (index-based pricing, volume commitments, and hedging mechanisms where appropriate).
• Build a category management discipline across direct and indirect spend, with clear category strategies, savings pipelines, and ownership.
• Standardize sourcing processes, templates, and approval workflows across IEG's North American divisions and acquired entities.
• Partner with Finance to establish savings tracking, PPV reporting, and total cost of ownership models that validate sourcing results.
• Support commercial teams with should-cost analysis and supplier capability insight for new product and custom quoting activity.

Supply Chain Operations Leadership

• Direct North American purchasing, planning, and inventory management through the supply chain team, ensuring service levels to operations and aftermarket parts customers.
• Advance IEG's inventory optimization program, sustaining progress toward the enterprise inventory reduction goal without degrading fill rates.
• Leverage IEG's ERP platform (DELMIAworks) and demand intelligence tools to improve forecast accuracy, buy signals, and safety stock strategy.
• Partner with the EMEA procurement and supply chain team (a peer organization, not a reporting relationship) to align global category strategies and share supplier leverage.

Acquisition and Integration Support

• Lead supply chain and supplier base integration for acquired entities, including spend analysis, supplier rationalization, and contract harmonization.
• Capture cross-entity purchasing synergies by consolidating volume with preferred partners across the IEG platform.

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead, coach, and develop the North American supply chain team, with the following direct reports:
  • Supply Chain Manager, Service Parts
  • Senior Buyer
  • Buyer
  • Supply Chain & Purchasing Coordinator
• Elevate team capability in strategic sourcing, negotiation, and analytics through structured development and clear performance expectations.
• Foster a culture of proactive communication, cross-functional partnership, and data-driven decision making.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Operations: align material availability, lead times, and supplier quality with production and service commitments.
• Sales and Customer Experience: provide accurate cost and lead time inputs for quoting and custom product programs.
• Finance: partner on savings validation, working capital targets, and reforecast inputs.
• Enterprise Systems and IT: ensure sourcing data, supplier records, and purchasing workflows are clean, integrated, and reportable across systems.
• EMEA Procurement and Supply Chain: partner on global category strategies, shared supplier opportunities, and combined volume leverage.

Key Goals and Metrics

• Expand the qualified supplier base with new strategic partners onboarded in priority categories within the first 12 to 18 months, including qualified low-cost country sources in production.
• Complete supplier base segmentation and execute a rationalization plan that consolidates spend with strategic partners.
• Deliver annual material cost savings against addressable spend, with steel and plastic resin category performance measured against market indices and validated with Finance.
• Achieve dual-source or regional-source coverage for the majority of critical categories.
• Sustain and advance the enterprise inventory reduction goal while maintaining or improving fill rates and on-time delivery.
• Improve supplier on-time delivery and quality performance through the scorecard program.
• Complete supplier integration and synergy capture plans for each acquisition within defined timelines.

Candidate Profile

• 10+ years of progressive supply chain and procurement experience in a manufacturing environment, with at least 5 years in strategic sourcing or category management leadership.
• Deep commodity procurement expertise in steel and/or plastic resin is required, including index-based pricing, market intelligence, and contract negotiation in volatile commodity environments.
• Demonstrated success in low-cost country source development, including hands-on supplier identification, qualification, and ramp-up in regions such as Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, or Southeast Asia.
• Proven track record of supplier rationalization: consolidating fragmented supply bases, exiting underperformers, and re-awarding volume without disrupting operations.
• Experience building supplier development programs, including audits, corrective action, and capability improvement with strategic partners.
• Strong negotiation and contracting track record with documented cost savings results.
• Experience leading and developing procurement and supply chain teams.
• Working knowledge of ERP-driven purchasing and planning environments; experience with DELMIAworks, IQMS, or similar systems is a plus.
• Experience in private equity backed or high-growth acquisitive environments is strongly preferred.
• Analytical fluency with spend analysis, should-cost modeling, and supplier performance data.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or a related field; advanced degree or CPSM/CSCP certification is a plus.

Organizational Structure

Director, Global Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain (reports to SVP, Global Enterprise Solutions & Supply Chain)

• Supply Chain Manager, Service Parts
• Senior Buyer
• Buyer
• Supply Chain & Purchasing Coordinator