Leads global procurement strategy, sourcing, supplier selection, negotiations, contracting, performance management, risk mitigation, and cost optimization. The role consolidates vendor relationships, supports new product introductions and manufacturing operations, develops supply resilience strategies, and provides executive reporting on supply chain performance, inventory, savings, and business risks while ensuring compliant procurement practices.
Director of Procurement
Position Summary
Lead Meyer Sound’s global procurement strategy to ensure a resilient, cost-effective, and scalable supply base. Drive supplier performance, contract management, sourcing excellence, and risk mitigation while partnering across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, and Finance to support growth and innovation. A key focus is consolidating supplier relationships and leveraging enterprise-wide spend to maximize value, simplify operations, and strengthen strategic partnerships. The hiring range for the role is $116K to $339K annually. Individual compensation will be determined based on job-related qualifications, experience, education, skills, geographic location, and alignment with internal compensation practices
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute global sourcing and procurement strategies.
- Lead supplier selection, negotiation, contracting, and performance management.
- Consolidate fragmented vendor relationships, standardize commercial agreements, and leverage purchasing scale across the business.
- Build strategic supplier partnerships that improve quality, delivery, innovation, and cost performance.
- Drive cost-reduction, value engineering, and supply chain optimization initiatives.
- Establish multi-source supply strategies and mitigation plans for critical supply risks.
- Support new product introductions and manufacturing operations through effective supplier engagement.
- Provide executive reporting on supply chain performance, inventory, cost savings, and business risks.
- Ensure ethical, compliant, and transparent procurement practices worldwide.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of procurement and supply chain leadership experience in manufacturing.
- Proven success in global sourcing, supplier development, and contract negotiation.
- Experience with NPI processes and a mix of in-house manufacturing, contract manufacturing, ODM, and JDM environments.
- Strong commercial, analytical, and leadership skills.
- Experience driving supplier consolidation and enterprise spend management.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
- Experience with modern data and analytics platforms, Microsoft Fabric or Power BI preferred
Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated Berkeley, California, USA Office
Berkeley, CA, United States
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