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Tide Rock · 14 hours ago

Director of Indirect Procurement & Purchasing

Solana Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Tide Rock is an unlevered buyout firm that focuses on acquiring lower middle market companies to accelerate growth. The Director of Procurement will lead the creation of a centralized procurement capability, architecting strategies to enhance supplier management and deliver cost savings across a portfolio of companies.

Financial ServicesImpact InvestingSoftware

Responsibilities

Create a multi-year procurement strategy covering direct and indirect spend across 20+ companies

Prioritize high-impact categories including vendor negotiation, contract review, technology, materials, and core operational inputs

Lead large, complex negotiations that set new standards for value, risk, and supplier performance across the portfolio

Build a scalable procurement and purchasing playbook that can be deployed across diverse businesses and ERP systems

Establish standardized processes, templates, KPIs, spend categorization models, and supplier evaluation criteria

Incorporate procurement maturity assessments to help companies understand where they are—and what great looks like

Provide training, onboarding, and guidance to portfolio teams as they adopt the playbook

Assess procurement capability gaps, spend patterns, and opportunities inside each company

Serve as a hands-on advisor to CEOs, CFOs, operations leaders, buyers, and materials managers across the portfolio

Adapt the playbook to company-specific needs while maintaining firm-wide standards for spend discipline and value creation

Identify opportunities to consolidate spend, improve contract terms, and enhance vendor performance

Drive quantifiable savings that flow directly to EBITDA and enterprise value

Track results with transparency and rigor, building credibility across the investment and operations teams

Build a reliable, high-performing supplier ecosystem that supports our B2B industrial and manufacturing footprint

Implement disciplined risk-management practices that ensure compliance with legal, ethical, and commercial expectations

Establish supplier scorecards and continuous improvement expectations

Leverage tools such as Simfoni for spend analysis and insight generation

Create dashboards and benchmarks that give leadership clear visibility into procurement’s impact

Identify purchasing synergies across companies that operate on diverse ERPs

Qualification

Procurement StrategyCost SavingsSupplier NegotiationsAdvanced Negotiation TechniquesFinancial AcumenProcurement SystemsCross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder ManagementOperational ExecutionMatrixed Environment ExperienceCommunication Skills