The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company’s unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®.
Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year.
Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies.
Job Summary:
The Director of Procurement is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing Sotera Health’s global procurement strategy. This leader will drive meaningful business impact by building strong cross-functional partnerships, advancing procurement capabilities, and aligning category strategies with company objectives across all business units.
As a strategic partner to leaders throughout the organization, the Director will ensure that procurement initiatives support enterprise goals related to growth, cost optimization, and risk management. This individual will also play a key role in positioning Procurement as a trusted, value-added contributor to the business.
The role will focus on building new and optimizing existing sourcing strategies, enhancing procurement processes, and developing performance frameworks to measure Procurement’s effectiveness, contribution, and impact to the business. The ideal candidate will bring strong relationship-building skills, business acumen, and a customer-focused mindset to deliver results and foster a culture of continuous improvement and strategic collaboration.
Essential Functions:
Procurement Strategy
- Lead the development of short- and long-term Procurement strategies and objectives.
- Partner with business unit leaders to create category strategies that support and align with enterprise objectives.
- Position Procurement as a strategic business partner and ensure alignment on goals, priorities, and performance expectations.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Impact
- Formalize strategic partnerships with key functions including Finance, Engineering, Operations, IT, and Facilities to proactively identify cost-saving and value-creation opportunities.
- Establish performance metrics and success frameworks to evaluate team effectiveness and Procurement’s impact on the broader business.
- Collaborate across teams to identify and implement process improvements across the requisition-to-pay cycle.
Operational Excellence & Governance
- Lead enterprise-wide sourcing initiatives and support complex, high-value procurement efforts.
- Drive continuous improvement of procurement processes, systems, and governance structures.
- Maintain strong relationships with strategic suppliers and ensure alignment with business needs and risk mitigation strategies.
Team Leadership
- Lead and develop the Procurement team, strengthening its role as a strategic partner by enhancing capabilities in strategic sourcing, category management, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
Qualifications
Education:
- Candidates must have their BS or BA, MBA desirable
- CPM, CPIM preferred
Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in Business, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, or Consulting
- Demonstrated management capabilities, especially related to leading strategic initiatives, driving performance, leading change efforts, and producing superior results
- Recognized as a leader, who has recruited, trained, developed personnel, and lead successful teams
Characteristics:
- A “spark in the eyes” team player, cooperative, unselfish, thinks corporately, not departmentally, who can work easily and synergistically with other functional departments.
- Ability to effectively interpret and communicate details, into concise and understandable facts, numbers, and actionable items.
- High level of intelligence manifested in rationality, common sense, deep conceptual thinking ability, critical and analytical thinking ability, wisdom from broad based knowledge and experience. Perceptive, visionary, good foresight, good intuition.
- Must be a change agent, initiate action, overcome obstacles, make progress and drive a process or project from start to finish alone or within a team to achieve acceptable results. Works with aggressiveness, tenacity, persistence, and intelligent forcefulness.
- Uncompromising integrity, moral values, and ethics. Honest, truthful, straight forward.
- Professional in appearance, demeanor, operating styles manifested in image, thoroughness, completeness, accuracy, polish, appropriateness, integrity, effectiveness. Performs at high standards.
- Ability to lead and manage multiple business models and priorities.
- The success candidate will demonstrate a flexible nature and be comfortable within the “gray areas” of the business.
Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses – Sterigenics®, Nordion® and Nelson Labs®. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.
