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Procurement And Sourcing Manager

Summary: The Procurement and Sourcing Manager is responsible for establishing and leading the company's procurement function, including strategy, governance, supplier management, sourcing, and purchasing operations. This role partners closely with finance, operations, and executive leadership to develop scalable policies, controls, systems, and reporting to support a multi-site logistics environment. The position is expected to drive spend visibility, strengthen contract and supplier governance, identify cost and efficiency opportunities, and build a disciplined procurement process that supports growth and operational performance. Comfort working with all levels of the organization, including the warehouse floor, is imperative. Use education, procurement experience, and general financial acumen to drive results.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Establish and lead the company's procurement strategy and governance framework, standardizing vendors, items, pricing, and buying practices across sites
• Own procurement strategy and supplier management for indirect and operational spend categories; warehousing, MHE, packaging, technology, MRO, and other spend categories as assigned
• Drive ethical sourcing using competitive bid processes and benchmark conflict-of-interest standards
• Conduct negotiations for supplier agreements, pricing structures, service levels, and commercial terms
• Develop a contract repository with renewal tracking, approved vendor lists, service-level expectations, insurance COI tracking, pricing compliance, and vendor onboarding controls
• Identify and execute opportunities for vendor rationalization, balancing national contract consolidation with local operating needs
• Develop purchasing approval guidelines and ensure procurement activities comply with company authorization requirements. Analyze spend, market conditions, and supplier performance to identify savings opportunities, reduce risk, and improve decision-making
• Identify customer-specific purchasing patterns and cost recovery opportunities
• Establish and improve KPIs such as annualized cost savings or avoidance, spend under management, vendor consolidation, contract compliance, PO cycle time, on-time supplier performance, procurement policy adoption across sites, and other metrics as identified
• Develop spend visibility by site, customer, vendor, and category to support savings initiatives, budgeting, customer pricing, and margin analysis
• Partner with Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership to align procurement strategy and governance with business priorities, budgets, and service expectations
• Reduce one-off spend, eliminating maverick spend
• Develop scalable policies, procedures, workflows, internal controls, systems, and reporting
• Oversee, support, and improve day-to-day procurement activities and systems, including requisition to PO to receipt and payment workflow, supplier follow-up, and issue resolution while building a scalable function
• Systematize and automate processes, procedures, and controls
• Train site leaders and support staff on procurement policies, processes, and controls
• Influence adoption without direct authority, building credibility by solving practical site-level problems
• Other duties as assigned

Successful Candidate Will:

• Be a thought-leader identifying opportunities for improvement across the organization and executing them
• Function as a business partner to all business disciplines and Executive Leadership
• Own their area of responsibility, ensuring objectives are completed on time and correctly in accordance with company policies, procedures, regulations, and expectations
• Maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, customers, and vendors; responding to questions promptly, professionally, and correctly
• Be able to evaluate and manage multiple priorities
• Rely on experience to seek out and solve problems
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality
• Maintain a clean and secure work environment
• Pursue professional development
• Be a self-starter, possessing a high degree of self-motivation
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills

What You Need:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Academic/Credentials/Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business, or Finance: a combination of education and experience will be considered
• Master's Degree a plus
• CPSM, CPPM, CSCP, or similar certification preferred

Length of experience:

• Five to seven years procurement experience
• Three to Five years developing procurement operations, programs, and controls
• Three to Five years of experience in manufacturing, distribution, or third-party warehousing
• Experience in Private Equity-owned companies preferred
• Experience managing indirect and operational spend categories in a multi-site environment
• Experience building or improving procurement functions, systems, policies, and controls

Specialized skills/technical knowledge:

• Strong track record of strategic sourcing, complex contract negotiation, and vendor consolidation, including broader national agreements
• Working with disparate but connected systems (WMS, procurement systems, FMS, data warehouses, and BI tools). Experience with ReQlogic and Microsoft Dynamics GP is a plus
• Excellent understanding of operational cost drivers
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and translate procurement strategy into operational results
• Advanced skills in Excel required. Demonstrated experience with other Microsoft Office Programs (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Experience handling special projects, including strong analytical and data-driven presentation skills

Physical Work Requirements:

• Sedentary work; sitting for extended periods of time.
• Working within a warehousing setting with multiple stairs and inclines requiring the ability to stand for extended periods of time and walk long distances
• Movements frequently and regularly required using the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
• Using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up small objects, or pinching fingers together
• Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information
• Able to communicate verbally where one must convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, or quickly
• Average, ordinary visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery
• Exerts up to 50 lbs. of force occasionally

Wagner is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran, or other protected status.