Direct Materials Sourcing Specialist

Location: Remote in the United States; CST / EST time zone preferred

Salary: $60.00 hourly, remote contract

Company

hirify.global is presenting a contract opportunity focused on direct materials sourcing for chemical and pharmaceutical categories.

What you will do

• Develop sourcing strategies and execute initiatives for chemical material categories across the Americas.
• Manage approximately $50–75M in annual spend, identifying cost-reduction and supply-risk mitigation opportunities.
• Build and maintain rolling 36-month sourcing strategies and project roadmaps, including savings estimates, timing, and execution plans.
• Execute RFI/RFQ processes, supplier qualification, auction rounds, negotiations, and contract management.
• Analyze spend, commodity pricing forecasts, contract coverage, material price outlooks, and savings capture.
• Collaborate with product management, commercial, operations, technical, quality, and business leaders while managing vendor relationships and reviews.

Requirements

• BS/BA degree required; an engineering degree, including chemical engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• At least 7 years of total related experience, including at least 5 years in procurement, operations, or commercial roles within the chemical or pharmaceutical industries.
• Ability to lead internal cross-functional meetings and external supplier business reviews.
• Experience managing complex sourcing or procurement projects, including spend control, spend analysis, strategy execution, contracting, and contract management.
• Strong negotiation, communication, presentation, interpersonal relationship management, organization, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
• Strategic, hands-on, proactive, creative, solution-focused, action-oriented, fact- and analysis-based approach.
• Ability to work successfully in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Lean Six Sigma certification at yellow, green, or black belt level.
• Experience with matrixed global project responsibility.
• SAP experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract arrangement with a preference for CST / EST working hours.
• Direct responsibility for significant material spend, strategic sourcing execution, and supplier risk management.
• Regular project execution reviews with sourcing leadership and business or functional leaders.