Director of Procurement

Procurement Director, Electronics | Confidential Retained Search Nashville, Tennessee | Hybrid | 25–30% travel within North America Annual compensation of $208,000–$312,000 USD, including base salary and short-term incentives Lean Six Search has been retained by a global industrial manufacturer to recruit a Procurement Director to lead electronics sourcing across North America. The director will lead a regional team of category managers and buyers, set sourcing strategy across multiple business units and manufacturing sites, and oversee finished components and raw materials for a group of North American factories. When a semiconductor supplier puts a critical part on allocation, senior leaders need to know which products are exposed, how quickly engineering can qualify an alternative and what decision they need to make today. We’re looking for someone who knows the electronics market well enough to make that call, explain it clearly and lead the team through execution. What you’ll lead Category strategy. Build one-, three- and five-year sourcing plans for electronics. Work with engineering, operations and global procurement peers to translate demand, supplier capacity and technology shifts into decisions about where to place business and when to qualify a second source. Team development. Lead category managers and buyers across locations. Coach them through negotiations, give them ownership of supplier relationships and develop the people who can take on broader responsibilities as the business grows. Supplier negotiations and development. Lead negotiations with strategic suppliers, put long-term agreements in place and use cost models and market intelligence to evaluate pricing. Work directly with supplier leadership on capacity commitments, quality issues and delivery performance. Manufacturing productivity. Partner with engineering, quality and plant leaders to qualify new suppliers, evaluate component alternatives and implement design or sourcing changes. Track whether those changes deliver savings while meeting production and quality requirements. Supply continuity. Review supplier quality, delivery and productivity each month. When performance slips, establish the recovery plan, agree on milestones with the supplier and give the affected factories a clear view of risks and timing. What you’ll bring You have 15 or more years of experience managing procurement teams in a project or manufacturing environment. You’ve led a geographically distributed organization, ideally one of 20 or more people, and can point to people you’ve developed who now lead teams or categories of their own. Your background includes direct sourcing experience in electronics, particularly semiconductors, power electronics or printed circuit board assemblies. You can explain a change in the supplier market to an executive team, challenge a cost assumption with a supplier and work through the production implications with a plant manager. We’ll want to hear about a category decision you personally led, how you secured support across sites and what changed as a result. A bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering or a related discipline is required. An MBA is preferred. Experience using procurement analytics and supplier performance tools to guide commercial decisions is also important. For a confidential conversation about the opportunity, please contact Lean Six Search . please contact sofia.hanna@leansixsearch.com

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