Senior Director Strategic Sourcing

About Us:

Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and build of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries. We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Since 1957, we have been known for our high-quality, custom-built control packages, our comprehensive service, and our technological and manufacturing expertise. This expertise assures you of our ability to handle the largest and most complex packages quickly and efficiently.

Job Summary:

Panelmatic is entering an extraordinary period of growth driven by increasing demand for electrical infrastructure supporting data centers, power generation, utilities, and critical infrastructure. To support this growth, we are seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing, whose primary responsibility will be to build a resilient, scalable, and competitive supply base capable of supporting Panelmatic's growth trajectory.

The successful candidate will build the supplier ecosystem, sourcing organization, and commodity-management capabilities required to enable rapid growth while maintaining capacity, quality, delivery, cost competitiveness, and supply continuity.

The Senior Director will be a key member of the Supply Chain leadership team and will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Commercial leadership.

Job Duties:

• Develop and execute a multi-year strategic sourcing and supplier-development strategy aligned with Panelmatic's growth plans.
• Build sufficient supplier capacity to support significant increases in revenue and production volumes.
• Translate Panelmatic's growth plans into commodity-level demand and supplier-capacity requirements.
• Identify future capacity constraints and proactively secure supplier capacity before the demand arrives.
• Build a balanced supplier portfolio across strategic, preferred, approved, and developing suppliers.
• Reduce dependency on single-source and constrained suppliers through dual sourcing, regional diversification, and strategic supplier development.
• Develop domestic, nearshore, and global sourcing strategies where appropriate.
• Establish long-term strategic relationships and commercial agreements with key suppliers.
• Build and lead a high-performing commodity management organization capable of supporting Panelmatic's rapid growth.
• Recruit, develop, and coach experienced Commodity Managers and Strategic Sourcing professionals.
• Establish clear commodity ownership, category strategies, supplier segmentation, and performance expectations.
• Develop sourcing talent capable of managing complex negotiations, supplier development, cost modeling, and supply-risk mitigation.
• Establish standardized sourcing processes, tools, KPIs, governance, and accountability.
• Create an organization that can scale as Panelmatic's revenue and spend grow.
• Lead strategic sourcing activities across a broad and complex manufacturing spend portfolio.
• Bring demonstrated experience managing $1B+ of annual spend across multiple commodities and supplier categories.
• Develop and execute category strategies covering areas such as:
• Electrical and electronic components
• Switchgear and power-distribution components
• Copper, bus bars, and fabricated metals
• Enclosures and sheet metal
• Circuit breakers and protective devices
• Relays, controls, and automation
• Transformers and electrical equipment
• Wire, cable, terminals, and connectors
• Contract manufacturing and fabricated assemblies
• Establish should-cost models, market intelligence, competitive benchmarks, and commodity strategies.
• Drive leverage across Panelmatic's growing spend while maintaining supply resilience.
• Identify, qualify, and develop suppliers capable of meeting Panelmatic's technical, quality, capacity, and commercial requirements.
• Build a structured Supplier Development Program for strategic and constrained categories.
• Work directly with suppliers to expand capacity, improve lead times, increase flexibility, and improve quality.
• Establish supplier scorecards covering capacity, quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness.
• Lead strategic supplier business reviews and improvement plans.
• Develop capacity commitments and long-term agreements with critical suppliers.
• Partner with Operations, SIOP, Engineering, and Commercial teams to understand the demand pipeline.
• Identify potential supply constraints 6–24 months ahead of requirements.
• Develop supplier capacity plans supporting new customers, programs, products, and facilities.
• Ensure the supply base can scale ahead of Panelmatic's growth requirements.
• Support new facility expansions and major customer programs.
• Establish proactive strategies for constrained commodities and long-lead components.
• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives to improve Panelmatic's material cost competitiveness.
• Drive sustainable cost reductions through competitive sourcing, negotiation, value engineering, specification optimization, supplier productivity, and strategic partnerships.
• Partner with Engineering on design-to-cost and value-engineering opportunities.
• Balance purchase price with total cost, quality, lead time, capacity, and supply risk.
• Deliver measurable annual productivity while protecting the resilience of the supply base.
• Establish a formal Supply Risk Management process for critical commodities and suppliers.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with single-source suppliers, capacity constraints, long lead times, financial instability, geopolitical exposure, tariffs, and raw-material availability.
• Develop contingency plans and qualified alternate sources for critical materials.
• Establish early-warning indicators for emerging supply risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, commodity management, supplier development, or supply chain.
• Demonstrated experience managing $1B+ in annual spend across multiple commodities and supplier categories.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading teams of Commodity Managers and strategic sourcing professionals.
• Proven track record of building or significantly expanding a strategic supplier base.
• Experience developing supplier capacity and resilience in a high-growth or complex manufacturing environment.
• Strong commercial negotiation, financial, analytical, and supplier-management capabilities.
• Experience with domestic, nearshore, and global supply networks.
• Experience in electrical, industrial, power, switchgear, automation, or related manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting data center, power infrastructure, utilities, or critical infrastructure markets is a significant plus.
• Experience in a rapidly growing or PE-backed company preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, term life, AD&D, STD, LTD

• 100% medical premium paid for by Panelmatic for the employee-only level medical coverage
• 80% paid for by Panelmatic and 20% paid for by the employee on all other level medical coverage (i.e. employee plus child, employee plus spouse, family)
• 401(k) contributions matched 100% up to 4% 
• Scholarships, educational reimbursement, paid volunteerism, and paid personal and professional development provided
• PTO and paid holidays provided
• Career advancement opportunities
• Competitive wages
• Family-friendly environment with average employee tenure above five years