[Hiring] Interim Supply Chain & Procurement Director @VDS Consulting Group

Role Description

The mandate is to identify and capture leaking margins through the supply base, ensuring the portfolio company can effectively manage and retain these gains.

• Full spend baseline and category segmentation, typically inside the first month.
• Vendor contract renegotiation across the top spend categories.
• Supply base diversification and dual-sourcing for single-source and geographically concentrated exposure.
• Raw material strategy, including tariff, freight, and commodity risk.
• Inventory strategy: right-sizing, positioning against actual demand variability, and freeing working capital.
• Implementation of demand and inventory forecasting tools, including AI-driven planning where the data supports it.
• Sales and operations planning cadence, where one does not already function.
• Supplier performance management and scorecarding.

First 90 days:

• Baseline the spend. Rank categories by capture speed and value.
• Open negotiations on the top three.
• Deliver a documented savings pipeline the CFO will sign off on.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in supply chain, procurement, or integrated sourcing, with director-level ownership.
• Demonstrated, verifiable savings capture — ability to walk through the baseline, the mechanism, and the P&L landing.
• Category depth in direct materials relevant to industrial manufacturing.
• Experience standing up or repairing S&OP.
• Working knowledge of planning systems and forecasting tools; enough technical fluency to evaluate a vendor claim.

Requirements

• Comfort renegotiating from a weak position when the supplier knows it.

Benefits

• Contract duration: 6–12 months.
• Day rate + expenses.
• Travel M–F, CONUS.