Position Purpose:

The Senior Vice President, Supplier Relations is responsible for developing, optimizing, and scaling the company's national and regional supplier ecosystem. This position builds high-value partnerships, enhances supplier performance, ensures cost-effective procurement strategies, accountable for end-to-end inventory management and strengthens the company's competitive position in the industry.

Additionally, this position leads all aspects of supplier relationship management-including sourcing, contract negotiations, strategic partnerships, product category growth, and supplier risk management, while collaborating closely with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Executive Leadership to drive company-wide performance and margin expansion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the enterprise supplier-relations and inventory strategies that support growth, profitability, operational excellence, and working-capital targets.
• Lead end-to-end inventory management, aligning replenishment, production planning, and lead-times with suppliers to ensure product availability, cost efficiency, and operational reliability.
• Integrate supplier performance insights with inventory planning to reduce risk, minimize excess/obsolete stock, and optimize SKU lifecycle decisions.
• Collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Category, Sales, and Operations teams to forecast demand, model scenarios, optimize inventory investment, and support product launches and category growth.
• Implement continuous-improvement practices that enhance forecasting, safety-stock strategies, accuracy, and replenishment processes using analytics and market trends.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for inventory turns, fill rates, carrying costs, and supplier delivery performance to drive accountability.
• Lead long-range planning for supplier alignment, category expansion, cost management, and supply-chain improvement.
• Serve as the company contact for major manufacturers, negotiating top-tier agreements, national programs, and strategic contract terms.
• Build and sustain high-performing supplier partnerships, overseeing scorecards, SLAs, quality metrics, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Identify and onboard new suppliers to expand capabilities, competitiveness, and portfolio strength.
• Drive cost savings, margin expansion, and rebate optimization through strategic negotiations and category management.
• Lead and develop the Supplier Relations organization, fostering a high-performance culture, strong negotiation excellence, and future leadership pipelines. Ensure compliance with ethical sourcing, sustainability standards, legal requirements, and risk-mitigation practices.
• Represent the company at industry events, trade shows, and executive supplier meetings.

Direct Manager Direct Reports:

• Reports directly to the EVP & Chief Supply Chain Executive.
• Direct reports include Sr. Director Supplier Relations, Sr. Director Private Label, Sr. Director, Sr. Director Supply Chain.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel up to 30% of the time to collaborate with teams, participate in strategic planning activities, and engage with key stakeholders.

Physical Requirements:

• Operates in a standard office environment, working extensively on a computer, reviewing documents, and participating in in-person and virtual meetings, with occasional travel to other company locations.

Working Conditions:

• Operates in a hybrid work environment, engaging closely with teams and stakeholders. Thrives in a fast-paced setting with tight strategic deadlines, requiring agility, strong decision-making, and effective navigation of complex financial issues to achieve impactful results.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Deep experience within building products, construction materials, industrial distribution, or manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Proven success negotiating high-value contracts, leading large teams, and building strategic supplier partnerships.
• Ability to synthesize multi-dimensional data (supply, demand, cost, risk, margin, working capital) into clear strategic insights that influence the verticals direction.
• High emotional intelligence with strong executive presence and influence skills.
• Apply scenario modeling and sensitivity analyses to assess how different supplier strategies, contract terms, and sourcing alternatives affect operational outcomes and financial performance.
• Proven ability to build high-performance, customer-centric teams.
• Effective change leader with experience driving large-scale organizational transformation.
• Strong financial acumen in modeling, pricing, rebates, and margin optimization.
• Skilled in enterprise-level negotiations with major manufacturers.
• Familiarity with ERP systems, procurement platforms, and supplier technology tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Executive experience in building products, construction materials, industrial distribution, or manufacturing.
• Strong category management expertise across core building materials.
• Experience leading procurement transformation, national programs, or supplier network optimization.
• Proven success leading multi-disciplinary supplier, sourcing, or category teams.
• Experience developing supplier scorecards, performance systems, or risk-management frameworks.
• Track record of improving working capital through supplier terms and inventory strategies.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree required-Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field preferred.

Preferred Education:

• MBA or advanced degree preferred (Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance).

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 15+ years of experience in supplier relations, procurement, sourcing, category management, or supply chain leadership.

• At least 7+ years in senior leadership roles.

Certifications:

• Preferred: CPSM, CSCP, CPM, or SCPro.

Competencies:

• Exceptional negotiation and commercial acumen.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and P&L understanding.
• Strategic thinker with operational execution capability.
• Superior relationship-building and executive communication skills.
• Ability to lead transformation in a fast-paced, multi-location environment.

Job Location: SRS Distribution - McKinney

7440 State Highway 121 McKinney, TX 75070-3104

Competitive weekly/bi-weekly pay, discretionary bonuses, 401(k) with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off (vacation, sick, volunteer, holidays, birthday, floating), medical/dental/vision, flexible spending accounts, company-paid life and short-term disability, plus optional long-term disability, and additional life insurance. All benefits subject to eligibility.

Should a Candidate be submitted to fill a position by a recruiting or staffing services agency ("Agency"), the Company has no obligation to pay the Agency any fee for submission, offer, placement or any service without a fully executed contract of service covering the engagement.