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The Senior Director of Global Sourcing owns Black Diamond’s vendor strategy, cost negotiations, and supplier performance across the global footprint. The role consolidates the vendor base toward fewer, deeper relationships, derisks the supplier network against geopolitical and tariff exposure, and drives the company’s sustainability commitments into measurable Scope 3 emissions reductions through vendor engagement. The Senior Director holds approval for all vendor cost changes, runs the seasonal FOB cycle end to end, and partners with Product Development, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality to keep the master costing file and executed purchase orders in sync. This person leads the vendor scorecard program, acts as the senior point of escalation with strategic supplier relationships, and represents Black Diamond in the highest-stakes commercial discussions across the vendor base.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Required: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or Business

Preferred: MBA and/or CPSM (Certified professional in Supply Management) are highly desired

Work Experience    

Required: 10+ years in strategic sourcing or procurement, with at least 5-7 years in a senior leadership capacity. Management experience in working in an ISO compliant company(s) in the outdoor recreation market and/or related industries is desired.
Preferred:    Experience in companies that have completed M&A or PE transactions on the sell or buy side. Multi-region operating experience (North America, Europe, Asia). Exposure to S&OP and IBP processes.
    

Skills and overall experience:  
•    Comprehensive understanding of global manufacturing, sourcing, and supply chain operations.
•    Extensive experience in sourcing finished goods, components, and materials, assessing and qualifying suppliers and negotiating costing, minimum order quantities, and supplier capacities.
•    Demonstrated experience leading vendor cost negotiations grounded in commodity index research (LME, Brent and WTI oil, resin spot, currency benchmarks) rather than accepting percentage-based asks at face value.
•    Experience with mass production fabrication techniques like machining, forging, bending, wire forming, casting, injection molding, textiles (weaving, sewing, fabrics, finishes), footwear, apparel, electronics, etc.
•    Effective communication and collaboration skills with internal and external partners.
•    Experience managing relationships with global vendors.
•    Proven success managing deep-tier overseas supplier networks (particularly across Asia, LATAM, and Europe) and navigating international trade compliance.
•    Track record of consolidating vendor bases toward fewer, deeper partnerships and executing geographic derisking against tariff and political exposure.
•    Demonstrated experience driving Scope 3 carbon footprint reduction through vendor engagement, materials substitution, or supplier audits against published sustainability commitments.
•    Financial Acumen: Deep experience managing direct material spend and executing high-value master service agreements (MSAs).
•    Strong background in Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma continuous improvement strategies at vendor facilities.
Required licenses:  Valid passport and driver’s license
Required ability to travel: Approximately 30% travel, domestic and international. They must be willing to travel within the contiguous United States of America (USA), as well as, abroad to work with suppliers, contractors, and others, with regular travel to Asia (Taiwan, Vietnam) anticipated. They may also attend relevant off-site events as required to complete their job responsibilities. This position may require a total travel time away from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA as required.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
General physical requirements: Light Work 
Visual acuity requirements: Close vision, color vision, and depth perception
Motion and sensory requirements: Balancing, stooping, kneeling, Reaching, Standing, Walking, Pushing, Pulling, Lifting, Manual Dexterity, Grasping, Feeling, Talking and Hearing.
Physical working conditions: Noise, Hazards, Atmospheric conditions, and Oils exposure possible

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Authorized and responsible to continuously improve upon and perform all duties according to BD Inc’s Quality, Safety and Employee Policies and procedures:

1.    Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Base Consolidation: Define and execute a global sourcing roadmap that consolidates the vendor base toward fewer, bigger, better partnerships. Drive concentration where it improves commercial terms, quality oversight, and relationship depth, while preserving redundancy where it protects continuity. Maintain a deliberate hub strategy Asia, with Taiwan as the regional anchor for hardgoods.
2.    Geopolitical Risk and Country-of-Origin Diversification: Manage active derisking of the supplier base against political and trade policy targets. Hold an explicit position on country-of-origin concentration, including China exposure ratios, Section 301 and tariff exposure, and capacity in alternative geographies such as Vietnam, Taiwan, and other Southeast Asian and other markets. Maintain scenario plans for tariff escalation, export controls, and regional disruption, and execute moves in advance of crisis rather than in response to it.
3.    Cost Negotiation and Governance: Hold approval for all vendor cost changes per the Black Diamond Costing Governance Playbook. Run the structured review on every request, covering root cause, independent index validation (LME, oil, resin spot, currency), timing, pullback trigger, duration, and resourcing alternative. Apply the 50/50 surcharge sharing model as the default starting position for commodity-driven increases, adjusted based on vendor margin transparency and relationship depth. Keep the master costing file and execute POs in lockstep through a monthly reconciliation owned jointly with Finance.
4.    Seasonal FOB Cycle Ownership: Coordinate the seasonal costing cycle end to end for both carryover and NPI flows. Run the consolidation review before costs lock in the master file. Where estimates are required because of commodity, currency, or trade policy volatility, enforce the discipline of flagged estimates with documented conversion triggers, rather than absorbing variance into the operations variance result.
5.    Vendor Performance Management and Scorecards: Own the vendor scorecard methodology and cadence. Define and maintain the KPI set across cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness, and sustainability. Run quarterly business reviews with strategic vendors. Drive corrective action when performance drops below threshold, including resourcing decisions when warranted.
6.    Sustainability and Scope 3 Carbon Reduction: Drive Black Diamond’s long-term sustainability commitments through the vendor base. Lead Scope 3 carbon footprint reduction through vendor data collection, materials substitution, and sourcing decisions that weight emissions alongside cost and lead time. Partner with the Sustainability function on supplier audits, traceability, and external reporting against published commitments.
7.    New Product Introduction (NPI) Support: Partner closely with R&D, Design, Development and Quality Assurance teams to transition concepts to commercialized products on strict timelines. Bring sourcing into the development gate early enough to influence specification, tooling, and country-of-origin decisions before commitments are locked. Ensure NPI vendor agreements feed the master costing file through the same approval gate as carryover.
8.    Total Landed Cost Management: Optimize complex global cost structures, using rigorous cost-modeling tools to offset impacts from freight volatility, tariffs, and international tax structures. Maintain costing models that surface the real margin impact of sourcing decisions rather than just the FOB delta.
9.    Cross-Functional S&OP Integration: Align global production allocations and capacity planning directly with internal demand planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cycles. Hold a standing cost change forum in the monthly executive S&OP meeting, where vendor cost requests are batched, reviewed, and approved or rejected with input from Sourcing, Product Development, Finance, and Operations.
10.    Quality and Compliance Oversight: Ensure all global manufacturing partners rigidly adhere to international labor laws, ethical sourcing practices, consumer product safety regulations, and Black Diamond’s vendor code of conduct. Conduct supplier system and process audits for compliance with systems, goals, and objectives.

Black Diamond is and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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