Senior Director, Global Logistics Procurement

Your Job

We are seeking a strategic, results-oriented leader to direct global logistics procurement across transportation, warehousing, 3PL/4PL services, customs brokerage, and logistics technology. This role will set category strategy, optimize the supplier portfolio, govern contracts and performance, and manage risk. Working across functions and regions, the Senior Director will improve cost, service, capacity, resilience, and compliance across the global logistics network.

Our Team

The ideal candidate will be reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer.

Location

The ideal candidate will be based in Singapore with international travel of 30–50%.

What You Will Do

• Define and execute a multi-year global logistics procurement strategy aligned with supply chain priorities and financial targets.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global team of sourcing and category leaders, with clear accountabilities, metrics, and development plans.
• Own strategic sourcing across ocean, air, road, rail, warehousing, 3PL/4PL services, customs brokerage, and logistics technology.
• Lead complex RFQs and negotiations; governing global and regional agreements, rates, service levels, incentives, optionality and commercial compliance.
• Optimize and segment the supplier portfolio to increase leverage while protecting capacity, service flexibility, and geographic coverage.
• Drive total landed cost and cost-to-deliver improvements.
• Partner with operations, planning, network design, finance, and commercial teams on transportation capacity, demand variability, lead times, service optionality and network optimization.
• Own supplier governance, including scorecards, business reviews, corrective actions, continuous improvement, and strategic relationship management.
• Advance digital tools and analytics, including e-sourcing, TMS integration, contract management, freight audit and payment, and shipment visibility.
• Identify and mitigate financial, operational, compliance, geopolitical, and ESG risks through business continuity and contingency planning.
• Ensure adherence to trade, customs, export-control, legal, and corporate procurement requirements.
• Report savings, cost avoidance, service, quality, resilience, and other value-creation outcomes to executive stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, or a related field.
• At least 12 years of progressive operations, procurement and sourcing experience, and 3 years in a global leadership role.
• Proficient in Mandarin to better serve our Mandarin-speaking customers and collaborate with counterparts.
• Proven success delivering measurable savings, service improvements, and supply continuity across global logistics categories.
• Deep knowledge of multimodal freight markets, warehousing models, 3PL/4PL contracting, customs brokerage, and logistics technology.
• Strong record of leading complex, multi-region negotiations and supplier or network optimization initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse, distributed teams and influence senior executives and external partners.
• Experience implementing or integrating procurement and logistics technologies, such as TMS, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management, and analytics platforms.
• Strong commercial judgment, analytical capability, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

What Will Put You Ahead

Master’s degree in supply chain, business, or a related discipline.

CPSM, CSCP, CIPS, or equivalent professional certification.

Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.

Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA and freight audit and payment platforms.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophyhelps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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