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A Strategic Director is a senior leader responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing an organization's long-term goals and strategies. They analyze market trends, assess business opportunities, and ensure that the company’s objectives align with its mission and vision. Typically, they collaborate with other executives to guide overall business direction, allocate resources effectively, and drive organizational growth. Their role requires strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills.

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A Strategic Director works closely with leaders across departments—such as marketing, operations, finance, and product development—to align initiatives with the company’s long-term objectives. This role often leads cross-functional meetings, develops unified strategies, and ensures clear communication between teams to avoid siloed efforts. Building consensus and fostering strong partnerships are essential, as the Strategic Director must balance varied perspectives while driving collective progress toward organizational goals. This collaboration not only streamlines decision-making but also enhances the overall effectiveness of strategic initiatives.

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Director, Global Strategic Sourcing (Durham, NC)

Fortrea

Durham, NC • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 24 days ago

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Company rating: 8.3 out of 10

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Job description

Job Overview:
The Director, Global Strategic Sourcing, is responsible for leading the strategy, design and development of a world-class strategic sourcing and category management function for one or more categories or segments within Fortrea's global sourcing scope. This leader must have the interest and ability to work cross functionally with stakeholders across the entire enterprise to ensure that business objectives and strategies are achieved.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Leadership & People Management
  • Build, lead, and develop a global team of category and sourcing managers, establishing clear role clarity, performance expectations, and decision rights aligned to Fortrea's strategic priorities.
  • Create a high-performance culture by coaching leaders, providing regular performance feedback, and holding managers accountable for results, behaviors, and talent development outcomes.
  • Own talent strategy for assigned categories, including workforce planning, capability development, succession planning, and identification of future leaders within Global Procurement Services.
  • Set and cascade measurable objectives across the team (savings, service levels, stakeholder satisfaction, compliance), ensuring alignment between enterprise priorities and individual goals.
  • Foster an inclusive, growth-oriented environment that encourages continuous improvement, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Strategic Leadership
  • Own the strategy, governance, and performance outcomes for assigned sourcing categories, ensuring category strategies are developed and executed effectively.
  • Hold team leaders accountable for execution quality, including sourcing rigor, supplier performance management, contract compliance, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Serve as an executive escalation point, removing barriers, resolving priority conflicts, and enabling teams to deliver value at scale rather than directly managing routine sourcing activities.
  • Translate enterprise strategy into category-level priorities, ensuring consistent application of sourcing methodologies, tools, and governance across the team.

Stakeholder & Organizational Leadership
  • Act as a senior strategic advisor to enterprise leaders, shaping demand, influencing sourcing decisions, and aligning stakeholders to long-term value creation rather than transactional outcomes.
  • Model and enforce disciplined decision-making, ensuring teams balance speed, risk, compliance, and value in alignment with Fortrea policies and regulatory requirements.

Execution
  • Lead and project manage multi-functional stakeholder teams on specific strategic sourcing initiatives or projects, including RFX's, to ensure benefit realization and drive value through supplier relationship management within the assigned categories.
  • Conduct regular contract review meetings with suppliers and key stakeholders to ensure supplier performance is meeting expectations, contractual commitments, and service levels and that any concerns are communicated in a timely manner ensuring the avoidance of service disruption and stakeholder dissatisfaction. Provide advice on all procurement related issues and discuss detailed contractual issues on a wide and varied portfolio with stakeholders to ensure that (i) contractual terms and obligations are fully understood, (ii) both financial, operational, and supply risks are minimized, and (iii) stakeholders fully understand and remain in compliance with finance, legal and procurement procedures.
  • Verify the relevance of the sourcing strategy by consulting with leaders, understanding external market trends, monitoring business conditions and priorities, being attentive to business objectives and continually validating, evolving, and adjusting the suitability of the functions' strategic objectives to ensure alignment.

Results & Accountability
  • Own delivery of savings and value targets through the performance of the team, including P&L impact, cost avoidance, working capital improvements, and supplier innovation.
  • Establish and review team-level performance dashboards, using metrics and analytics to guide coaching, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
  • Design and continuously evolve the operating model for category management and strategic sourcing, including governance forums, escalation paths, and cross-functional engagement models.
  • Partner with the Executive Director to shape functional strategy, transformation roadmaps, and multi-year capability investments for Global Procurement Services.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):
  • Bachelor's degree
  • A deep knowledge of sourcing processes, market trends, benchmarks, and best practices across categories under management
  • In-depth knowledge of category strategy, management and sourcing, methodologies, and best practices
  • Proven analytical skills, and demonstrated ability to solve complex problems to drive value
  • Deep business and financial acumen and strong strategic and conceptual skills
  • Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills
  • Working knowledge of data analysis and forecasting tools and ability to develop actionable insights from data
  • Interpersonal skills and ability to build, develop and maintain trusted relationships both internally and externally
  • Attention to detail and analysis accuracy
  • Ability to make decisions and commit to completion dates
  • Ability to troubleshoot issues of high complexity
  • Microsoft Office365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)
  • Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.

Experience (Minimum Required):
  • Demonstrated team leadership experience
  • Experience working in a matrixed business environment, leading multiple commitments and collaborators while prioritizing conflicting demands, maintaining focus on the objective, and providing high quality service to both internal and external partners
  • Specific experience in leading large, complex sourcing projects and supporting Senior Leadership on development of the sourcing strategy, management of risks and issues and the execution of the project to deliver the greatest value for money for the organization
  • Developing and executing clear category management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and cost reduction strategies

This is a hybrid role with the expectation to work within our Durham headquarters 3 days each week.
Pay Range: $160,000-$170,000 (The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity)
Benefits: All job offers will be based on a candidate's skills and prior relevant experience, applicable degrees/certifications, as well as internal equity and market data. Regular, full-time or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(K), ESPP, Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO), and Company bonus where applicable. For more detailed information, please click here.
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
Work Environment:
  • Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.

Physical Requirements:
  • Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day.
  • Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
  • Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.

Application deadline: June 30, 2026
Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here.

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