Vice President, Procurement

Role Overview

This senior leadership position is responsible for shaping and directing enterprise-wide procurement for a large commercial food manufacturing business based in San Antonio, Texas. The role focuses on strengthening supply continuity, improving profitability, and supporting long-term growth through strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, and procurement transformation.

What You'll Do

• Create and implement procurement strategies that align with growth goals, margin improvement, reliable supply, and overall shareholder value.
• Lead the development of a high-caliber procurement team that supports the company’s long-range business plan.
• Advance procurement modernization efforts across North America.
• Position procurement as a trusted strategic partner across the organization.
• Oversee purchasing across major categories such as ingredients, packaging, contract manufacturing, MRO, and logistics.
• Manage sourcing for capital equipment, facilities, information technology, corporate services, and other indirect spend areas.
• Design category plans that improve supplier execution, lower costs, and build lasting competitive advantage.
• Set and execute sourcing strategies for agricultural and commodity inputs including grains, flour, wheat, dairy, cocoa, sweeteners, edible oils, and similar materials.
• Handle commodity price swings while protecting margins and maintaining supply availability.
• Drive procurement transformation through artificial intelligence, analytics, digital tools, and automation.
• Use data-led decision-making to strengthen category management across the business.
• Improve supplier performance tracking to increase efficiency and support continuous improvement.
• Build scalable procurement processes and promote ongoing operational improvement.
• Develop strong supplier relationships that support innovation, quality, resilience, and long-term business value.
• Strengthen supplier performance management and identify collaboration opportunities.
• Coach, mentor, and grow a capable procurement organization, including future leaders and succession planning.
• Promote accountability, high performance, and professional development within the team.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree is mandatory; an MBA or other advanced qualification is preferred.
• At least 15 years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain leadership.
• Executive-level leadership experience in commercial food manufacturing is required.
• Experience in commercial baking is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success managing procurement in large, complex manufacturing environments.
• Background leading procurement for 30 or more manufacturing sites, or organizations of comparable scale.
• Proven history of overseeing procurement spend above $500 million.
• Experience leading multi-tier procurement teams and building high-performing organizations.
• Ability to work closely with executive leadership and influence senior stakeholders.
• Exposure to food manufacturing, ingredient manufacturing, or consumer packaged goods is preferred.
• Strong understanding of agricultural supply chains and multi-site operations.
• Experience in enterprise procurement, commodity sourcing, and supply chain transformation programs.
• Hands-on experience sourcing major commodities such as flour, wheat, grains, dairy, cocoa, and other agricultural ingredients.

Additional Information

This is a full-time onsite leadership opportunity in San Antonio, Texas, USA.