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$178,800.00 - $241,400.00JOB OVERVIEW:
The Director of Procurement is the operational leader of the procurement function, accountable for delivering cost, cash, service, and risk objectives across a $400m+ annual spend portfolio.This role leads a team of procurement professionals and is expected to be hands-on, commercially sharp, and deeply involved in supplier negotiations, sourcing decisions, and day-to-day execution. The role requires strong business judgment, disciplined follow-through, and clear people leadership.
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Key Accountabilities
1. Operational Procurement Leadership
- Own end-to-end procurement execution, from demand alignment and sourcing strategy through contracting, ordering, and supplier performance.
- Ensure procurement supports production continuity, innovation timelines, and business priorities with minimal disruption.
- Be actively involved in key sourcing decisions and negotiations, especially for high-value, high-risk, or strategic suppliers.
- Translate business needs into clear sourcing plans, negotiation strategies, and execution roadmaps.
2. Spend Ownership & Value Delivery
- Deliver year-over-year cost savings, cash improvements, and risk mitigation in line with AOP targets.
- Personally lead or sponsor major negotiations (pricing, payment terms, capacity commitments, service levels).
- Drive vendor consolidation where it improves leverage, simplicity, and total cost of ownership.
- Track, validate, and report realized savings, not just negotiated savings, in partnership with Finance.
3. Supplier & Contract Management
- Own the supplier relationship model for top strategic and high-risk suppliers.
- Ensure contracts are commercially sound, enforceable, and actively managed (pricing, service levels, penalties, renewal timing).
- Lead supplier performance reviews, including corrective actions for underperformance.
- Escalate and resolve supply, quality, or commercial disputes decisively.
4. Inventory, Planning & Replenishment Oversight
- Oversee replenishment and MRP execution to balance service, inventory levels, and working capital.
- Partner with Operations and Finance to set and adjust planning parameters, safety stocks, and reorder logic.
- Reduce excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory through better sourcing and planning decisions.
5. Team Leadership & Accountability
- Lead execution-focused team with clear roles, priorities, and performance expectations.
- Coach buyers on negotiation preparation, supplier management, and commercial thinking.
- Hold the team accountable for deadlines, accuracy, follow-through, and results.
- Ensure workload is balanced and execution does not rely on heroics or individual workarounds.
6. Cross-Functional Business Partnership
- Act as a commercial partner to Operations, Finance, Engineering, Marketing, R&D, and Quality.
- Support new product introductions and innovation with timely sourcing, cost models, and supplier readiness.
- Align procurement actions with financial targets, operational constraints, and growth initiatives.
7. Systems, Data & Process Discipline
- Ensure disciplined use of SAP and procurement processes (RFQs, contracts, POs, vendor master data) promoting automation and process adherence
- Drive consistency, transparency, and auditability in procurement execution.
- Use data to manage spend, supplier performance, and team productivity — not spreadsheets owned by individuals.
Supervisory:
- 4 Direct Reports
Required Experience & Profile
- 10+ years in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain roles with direct negotiation responsibility.
- Proven experience managing large spend portfolios ($250m+ preferred).
- Demonstrated success leading complex negotiations (pricing, terms, capacity, contracts).
- Experience managing both direct and indirect spend.
- Strong people leadership skills with a hands-on, accountable management style.
- Solid financial acumen (cost drivers, P\&L impact, working capital).
- SAP experience strongly preferred.
- Industry experience in food, CPG, manufacturing, or agriculture is a plus but not mandatory.
- Results-driven, decisive, and comfortable operating in detail.
- Clear communicator who sets expectations and follows through.
- Commercially minded, not process-theoretical.
- Willing to step into negotiations and execution when required.
- Builds credibility through delivery, not presentation
Would consider remote-hybrid with 25-50% travel required
Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer
EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability
WHY BLUE DIAMOND?
In addition to working at the world’s largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE .
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Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. BDG provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. BDG also complies with all provisions of the U.S. Government's Executive Order 11246 dated September 24, 1965 and the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor.Top Skills
What We Do
Blue Diamond Growers is on a global mission to share the benefits of almonds with the world.
Blue Diamond Growers is the world's largest almond processing and marketing company. We are the world’s leading almond brand, and we’re focused on building markets and creating new products to deliver the benefits of almonds to the world. Made up of more than 3,000 growers, we’re cooperatively owned by half of the state's almond growers who produce over 80 percent of the world almond supply.
The California almond crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, the sixth largest U.S. food export and the #1 specialty crop in America. We keep that market-leading position by remaining strategically ahead of the curve, with continual innovations in our award-winning processing plants and information technology systems that have grown by leaps and bounds to support global growth.
Our biggest point of differentiation, though, is our people. Through cooperation and teamwork, we, the Almond People as we’re affectionately known, deliver the best-tasting, highest-value almonds and almond products in the world.
This is an exciting time at Blue Diamond where every team member can showcase their talents and contribute in new and innovative ways to drive accomplishments. The opportunity is here for each of us to step up, take our futures in hand and find new ways to achieve at Blue Diamond. We’re building on our strengths, learning as we go, trusting one another and realizing unprecedented levels of success.
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