DVP, Procurement (Scottsdale)

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Position Summary

• The DVP, Procurement leads a centralized, enterprise-wide procurement function that builds competitive advantage through strategic supplier partnerships, cross-functional alignment, and proactive risk mitigation. This leader will establish and communicate a clear vision for procurement excellence that gains broad organizational support across Sales, Operations, R&D, Finance, and Global Supply Chain. Reporting to the EVP of Operations and Supply Chain, this role will define procurement strategy and governance while directing a team of category leaders spanning meat, dairy, and materials to ensure reliable, cost-effective, and compliant supply.

Essential Job Functions

• Develop and articulate a compelling procurement vision aligned to business strategy, driving cross-functional alignment with Sales, Operations, R&D, IBP, and global partners.
• Enhance and advance procurement policies, frameworks, and long-range strategies that anticipate future business needs and strengthen competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with global procurement peers to leverage enterprise scale, harmonize processes, and optimize sourcing approaches across regions while maintaining agility.
• Build and sustain relationships with strategic, emerging, and niche suppliers that align with company values and long-term growth ambitions.
• Lead structured supplier business reviews multiple times per year to drive performance, transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain a diversified supplier ecosystem to mitigate concentration risks and encourage the development of new, high-value supplier partners.
• Provide mentorship and partnership guidance to key suppliers to ensure capability development, sustainability, and strategic alignment.
• Oversee comprehensive supplier capability assessments, leading high-impact negotiations and ensuring contracts protect quality, service, and brand reputation.
• Forecast procurement needs by integrating production plans, inventory requirements, and sales outlooks to ensure uninterrupted supply while capturing demand fluctuations.
• Conduct scenario modeling and risk assessments to proactively manage volatility in commodities, supply availability, and regulatory environments.
• Align internal requirements with supplier capabilities to enable seamless execution and agile issue resolution.
• Monitor industry, regulatory, and market trends to ensure compliance and inform strategic adjustments.
• Partner with IBP, Logistics, Operations, R&D, and Co-Manufacturing to synchronize planning and execution and ensure reliability across the supply chain.
• Lead modernization initiatives that standardize tools, processes, and data to improve procurement effectiveness and safeguard food safety and regulatory compliance.
• Standardize cost structures and core procurement processes while maintaining flexibility for strategic and specialty suppliers.
• Drive cost-savings, productivity, and value-creation initiatives that support short-term targets and long-term enterprise strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of category leaders, building deep capability in negotiation, analytics, supplier management, and strategic planning.
• Foster a high-performance culture centered on discipline, reliability, quality, continuous improvement, and results ownership.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business Finance, or related field.
• Ten years of experience in progressive strategic sourcing or procurement leadership.

License/Certifications

• Not applicable.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSA’s)

• Food and category expertise with extensive procurement experience in food manufacturing, including deep knowledge of meat, dairy, and core ingredient and material categories.
• Proven strategic negotiation ability to secure competitive terms while building long-term, mutually beneficial supplier relationships.
• Strong scenario planning and market intelligence capability with experience modeling commodity markets, supply risks, contingency strategies, and pricing trends.
• Advanced analytical skills with a rigorous, data-driven approach to evaluation, decision-making, and performance management.
• Demonstrated operational discipline with a history of delivering consistent quality, cost control, supply continuity, and on-time execution.
• Experience developing high-performing teams and advancing procurement leadership capability.
• Global mindset with success operating in global or multi-country sourcing environments and navigating cultural and operational complexity.

Environmental/Working Conditions

• Ability to travel up to fifty percent of the time.

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Usual office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing.
• Regular use of hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools, or controls, and frequent reaching with hands and arms.
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.
• Specific vision abilities including close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Occasional lifting or moving of office products and supplies up to twenty pounds.