We’re partnered with a growing manufacturing operation in McMinnville, Oregon, to hire a Procurement Director. This is an on-site plant leadership role with real visibility and real influence in a fast-moving, highly interactive manufacturing environment.
This is not a role for someone who just wants to manage suppliers or maintain an existing purchasing process. It is a leadership role for someone who wants to build, improve, develop people, strengthen execution, and help shape how procurement supports a growing operation.
The right person will need strong procurement credibility, but success in this role will come down to much more than sourcing knowledge alone. This leader will need to build trust quickly, partner closely with plant leadership, create more structure, improve how work gets done, develop and elevate the team, and help build a procurement function that supports the business with urgency, accountability, and sound judgment.
This is a role for a builder. The business needs someone energized by creating better ways of working, raising standards, improving parts of the function that are not yet where they need to be, and helping procurement become a stronger and more trusted partner to the plant.
What this leader will do
- Lead procurement activities across raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and indirect spend in support of production
- Build and lead a site-based procurement team, setting clear expectations and improving day-to-day execution
- Develop, mentor, and elevate team members while helping strengthen the capabilities the function needs going forward
- Create more structure across priorities, routines, communication, and follow-through so the function operates with greater consistency and discipline
- Improve areas of the function that are not performing at the level required, including people, processes, decision-making, and execution
- Partner closely with operations, planning, quality, finance, and site leadership as a true plant partner
- Strengthen supplier relationships and improve performance across cost, service, quality, reliability, and continuity of supply
- Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, and supply agreements aligned with business needs and plant realities
- Improve visibility into purchasing activity, supplier performance, key cost drivers, and areas of supply risk
- Support stronger inventory discipline and material flow in a production-driven environment where availability and execution matter every day
- Bring urgency and sound judgment in an environment where priorities can shift quickly and procurement decisions directly affect plant performance
- Help build stronger cross-functional ways of working so procurement is seen as a practical, credible, value-added function inside the operation
What we’re looking for
- Procurement leadership experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong experience supporting a plant or manufacturing operation with direct exposure to production-facing procurement needs
- Experience across direct materials, ingredients, packaging, and/or other production-critical categories, with indirect category experience also valued
- Strong people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, team development, and raising standards
- A track record of building or significantly improving a procurement or supply chain function rather than simply operating inside a mature one
- Experience creating structure, establishing better ways of working, and improving performance in an environment that was still evolving
- Strong supplier management and negotiation capabilities across multiple spend categories
- The ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a plant-facing leadership role
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills across operations, planning, quality, and finance
- Practical, execution-focused leadership style with strong follow-through and accountability
- ERP and purchasing systems experience
- A builder mindset. Someone who wants to develop the team, improve the function, and help the operation continue getting stronger
Preferred background
Experience in consumer packaged goods, FMCG, ingredients, packaging, frozen or refrigerated foods, food and beverage, dairy, or another regulated manufacturing environment where quality, specifications, service, and supply continuity directly affect production
Why this is a compelling opportunity
This is a chance to step into an important plant leadership role at a growing operation where the work is visible and the impact is real. The right leader will have the opportunity to shape the team, strengthen how procurement supports the plant, and help build a more effective and reliable operation over time.
For someone who wants more than just keeping orders moving, this role offers the chance to lead people, improve the function, influence plant performance, and make a meaningful mark on how the role and team evolve.
If you are a procurement leader who knows how to lead people, build structure, raise standards, and improve plant support in a manufacturing environment, we’d welcome a conversation.
Industry
Manufacturing, with preferred experience in consumer packaged goods, FMCG, ingredients, packaging, frozen and refrigerated foods, food and beverage, dairy, or other regulated production environments
