Supply Chain & Procurement Recruiting for Growth Focused Companies
Leaders Who Strengthen Supply Chains, Control Costs and Improve Performance
Ashton North helps manufacturers, private equity backed businesses, startups, and growth focused companies recruit supply chain and procurement leaders who improve visibility, strengthen supplier performance, optimize inventory, manage costs, and build more resilient operations.
From executive and functional leadership to specialized supply chain professionals, we focus on people whose experience aligns with the complexity, operating environment, supplier network, and business objectives of the organization.
Supply Chain & Procurement Leadership Roles We Recruit
Chief Supply Chain Officers
Vice Presidents and Directors of Supply Chain
Vice Presidents and Directors of Procurement
Strategic Sourcing Leaders
SIOP and S&OP Leaders
Materials and Planning Leaders
Purchasing and Procurement Managers
Inventory and Materials Management Leaders
Logistics and Distribution Leaders
Supplier Development and Supplier Performance Leaders
Commodity and Category Managers
From enterprise supply chain strategy to sourcing, planning, materials, and supplier management, we recruit professionals responsible for keeping products, materials, information, and resources moving across the business.
What Are You Hiring This Supply Chain Leader to Improve?
Supply chain and procurement hires are often made because the organization needs greater control, visibility, predictability, or performance across an increasingly complex network.
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
Develop sourcing strategies, strengthen supplier relationships, improve purchasing discipline, negotiate more effectively, and create measurable value across direct and indirect spend.
Inventory & Working Capital
Improve inventory accuracy and turns, reduce excess and obsolete inventory, strengthen material availability, and balance customer requirements with working capital objectives.
Planning, SIOP & S&OP
Connect demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial objectives to create greater visibility and more disciplined decision making across the organization.
Supplier Performance & Development
Improve supplier quality, delivery, cost, capability, and accountability while developing stronger relationships with critical supply partners.
Cost, Spend & Margin Performance
Create greater visibility into spend, identify savings opportunities, improve purchasing economics, and support stronger margin performance.
Supply Chain Risk & Resilience
Identify vulnerabilities across suppliers, materials, geographies, and transportation networks while developing strategies that reduce disruption and improve continuity.
Logistics & Distribution
Improve transportation, warehousing, distribution, and material flow to support service levels, operating efficiency, and customer expectations.
Growth & Supply Chain Transformation
Build the people, processes, systems, supplier networks, and planning capabilities needed to support acquisitions, new products, new facilities, increased demand, or continued growth.
Supply Chain Experience Has to Match the Business
Supply chain experience is not one size fits all.
Managing a global supplier network for highly engineered products requires different experience from supporting high volume production, short lead time customer demand, or a business with significant commodity exposure.
The supply chain model matters.
Supplier concentration, global sourcing, production volumes, lead times, product complexity, inventory requirements, customer expectations, regulatory demands, transportation, and demand variability can all influence the experience required for success.
Ashton North understands the differences across supply chain and procurement environments, including:
Global & Domestic Supply Networks
Direct & Indirect Procurement
Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
High Mix & Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains
High Volume Production Environments
Engineered & Long Lead Time Components
Inventory Intensive Operations
Multi Site Supply Chain Networks
The objective isn't simply to find someone who has worked in supply chain or procurement.
It is to identify a professional whose experience translates to your supplier network, operating model, business challenges, and performance goals.
Supply Chain Connects the Business
Supply chain doesn't operate in isolation.
Strong supply chain leaders connect sales, operations, manufacturing, engineering, finance, suppliers, and customers to create greater visibility and better decisions across the organization.
They understand the relationship between:
Demand
Supply
Inventory
Capacity
Cost
Quality
Delivery
Working Capital
Supplier Risk
Customer Performance
The strongest supply chain organizations don't simply react to problems. They create the visibility, processes, supplier relationships, and planning discipline needed to anticipate them.
Ashton North recruits supply chain and procurement professionals who understand those connections and can translate strategy into measurable business performance.
Recent Supply Chain & Procurement Searches & Placements
Vice President of Global Supply Chain - North Carolina
Director of Supply Chain & Procurement - Wisconsin
Director of Procurement - Texas
Director of SIOP - Austin, TX
Strategic Sourcing Manager - Cleveland, OH
Director Materials / Planning - Wisconsin
Director of Transformation & S&OP - Texas
Build the Supply Chain Behind Better Business Performance
Whether you are reducing costs, improving inventory performance, strengthening supplier relationships, implementing SIOP, mitigating supply chain risk, integrating an acquisition, or preparing the business for growth, the right supply chain leadership can have an impact across the entire organization.
Ashton North helps companies recruit supply chain and procurement professionals with the industry experience, supplier knowledge, leadership capabilities, and proven results needed to strengthen performance and support what comes next.