Director, Strategic Sourcing, Lumber - Americas

We are seeking a senior strategic sourcing leader to lead our lumber sourcing strategy across North and South America.

This is not simply a procurement role focused on price. We are looking for a leader who can understand changing business needs and market conditions, translate them into a clear sourcing strategy, and deliver the right supply at the right cost while balancing quality, resilience, sustainability, and long-term value.

What You'll Do

Lead the Americas Sourcing Strategy

• Develop and execute the strategic sourcing roadmap for lumber across North and South America.
• Anticipate future demand and supply requirements and build sourcing strategies that provide the capacity and flexibility needed for growth.
• Analyze market dynamics, supplier capabilities, cost drivers, and emerging risks to inform long-term decisions.
• Balance long-term strategic priorities with the short-term supply challenges inherent in a dynamic operating environment.

Build Resilient Supplier Markets

• Identify, qualify, and develop new sources of lumber supply across the region.
• Build strategic relationships with suppliers and create partnerships that improve capacity, performance, and resilience.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations and supplier strategies that balance cost, quality, service, and continuity.
• Strengthen the organization's ability to respond to shifts in demand and changing market conditions.

Create Value Beyond Purchase Price

• Partner across the business to evaluate sourcing decisions through a total-cost lens.
• Connect material decisions with quality, product performance, durability, and lifecycle value.
• Identify opportunities to improve commercial performance while protecting operational requirements and long-term supply resilience.

Advance Responsible Sourcing

• Embed sustainability and responsible forestry considerations into sourcing strategies and supplier relationships.
• Partner with suppliers and internal stakeholders to advance long-term sustainability commitments.
• Balance responsible sourcing requirements with commercial objectives, supply availability, and market realities.

Lead and Influence Across Boundaries

• Lead and develop a geographically dispersed team across the Americas.
• Partner with procurement, supply chain, operations, finance, innovation, sustainability, quality, and other business leaders.
• Bring together technical expertise and commercial insight to make sound enterprise decisions.
• Influence effectively across countries, cultures, and functions, often without direct authority.

What You'll Bring

We're looking for a strategic sourcing leader first.

Experience in lumber, timber, forestry, or sawmilling would be highly valuable, but we are also interested in accomplished direct-material sourcing leaders from adjacent industries such as paper, pulp, packaging, fiber, or other complex manufacturing environments.

You will ideally bring

• Significant leadership experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, direct materials, or supply management.
• Experience developing and executing sourcing strategies in complex manufacturing or commodity-based environments.
• A track record of identifying, qualifying, and developing new suppliers and sources of capacity.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience leading complex negotiations and strategic supplier relationships.
• Experience managing supply risk, market volatility, and changing demand.
• The ability to translate market insight and business requirements into actionable sourcing strategies.
• Experience leading and developing teams across multiple locations, countries, or cultures.
• Strong cross-functional influencing and executive stakeholder-management capabilities.
• An understanding of total-cost economics and the relationship between material decisions, operational performance, and business value.
• Experience incorporating sustainability, responsible sourcing, certification, or environmental expectations into procurement decisions.
• The ability to operate comfortably at both strategic and tactical levels.

You Don't Need to Be the Technical Expert in the Room

We have technical expertise within the organization. What is most important is your ability to lead strategically, ask the right questions, leverage specialists, understand manufacturing and supplier economics, and turn insight into action.

Experience with lumber, forestry, or sawmilling will help you accelerate your impact, but leaders who have successfully navigated complex direct-material environments and can rapidly build industry knowledge are encouraged to apply.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, you will

• Build a clear, forward-looking sourcing strategy for the Americas.
• Expand and strengthen qualified sources of supply to support future growth.
• Improve supply resilience and the organization's ability to respond to changing demand.
• Develop deeper, more strategic supplier relationships.
• Connect sourcing strategy to quality, durability, sustainability, and total lifecycle value.
• Build a capable, engaged regional team and strengthen collaboration across business functions.

Why This Opportunity?

This is a chance to do more than inherit an established category strategy. The sourcing environment is evolving, and the business needs a leader who can help shape what comes next.

You will have the opportunity to

• Influence a major direct-material category across the Americas.
• Build sourcing capacity that enables future business growth.
• Develop new supplier partnerships and strengthen existing ones.
• Connect commercial sourcing decisions with innovation, product performance, and sustainability.
• Lead talented specialists while bringing a broader strategic perspective.
• Influence senior stakeholders across a complex international business.

For a sourcing leader who enjoys solving difficult supply-market problems, building partnerships, and turning strategy into measurable business outcomes, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact.