Sourcing Risk Director

Job title: Sourcing Risk Director

About the Role A principled and influential Sourcing Risk Director to help shape the future of risk, controls, and compliance across a $7 billion procurement organization spanning approximately 400 sourcing and procurement professionals and multiple ERP platforms. Reporting to the Vice President of Continuous Improvement & Transformation, this role will strengthen internal controls, reduce enterprise risk, and drive continuous improvement across the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle. As a trusted advisor and change leader, you will translate risk insights into practical, scalable solutions that enhance performance, improve decision quality, and enable responsible growth. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Sourcing, Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Digital capabilities to build a culture where strong controls and business results go hand in hand. Success in this role requires the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, simplify complexity, and drive adoption through clear communication and disciplined execution. This is a unique opportunity to modernize how procurement manages risk—leveraging data, technology, and process excellence to create a stronger, more resilient sourcing organization while enabling teams to deliver greater value to the business.

What You'll Do

• Sourcing Compliance System Leader: Own the development of the annual plan based on risk and value, working with and through our designated compliance system owners against our compliance standards and internal controls.
• Annual Risk Assessments: lead the annual risk assessments to identify potential compliance and internal control risks and work with compliance system owners and capability leaders to develop mitigation strategies.
• Standard Work & Process Discipline: Work with the Process & Training team to embed compliance and internal controls into our standard processes, standard work and leader standard work.
• Purchasing Policy Owner: Serve as the Purchasing Policy owner, partnering with capability teams and Finance to make meaningful updates based on benchmarking, regulatory changes, and industry best practices.
• Knowledge Sharing: Stay up to date with changes in the regulatory requirements and industry best practices by working directly with our GP and Koch compliance teams and sharing knowledge through the capability and ensure standard work & process discipline is adjusted, as needed.
• Anomaly detection: Partner with IT, Finance and the CSC to develop and deploy anomaly detection tool(s) to identify potential high-risk situations. Own the methodology to assign tier levels to anomalies and deploy investigative resources against tier 1 anomalies, while finding other ways to leverage the data in other tiers.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in areas such as Sourcing & Procurement, Operations, Finance, process improvement, internal financial controls, legal compliance, and/or risk management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels and create an inclusive, challenge-driven environment.
• Ability to prioritize work in a dynamic environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% depending on location and business needs.
• Experience in a manufacturing organization.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering or related field.
• Experience in complex manufacturing and/or Pulp & Paper Industry.
• Experience working with multiple business segments within a company.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation details are not disclosed in the posting; any ranges are estimates based on market data and may vary by candidate, geography, and other factors.
• Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, and programs to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• The company notes that compensation philosophy allows flexibility; visa sponsorship is not available for this role.