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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Division Procurement Director

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
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Atlanta, GA, USA
HybridHybrid role with regular in-office presence expected.
Operations & LogisticsInventory Management, Procurement & Sourcing

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience leading teams supporting multi-site manufacturing operations, including leadership of managers and indirect teams.
  • Experience owning Procure-to-Pay processes and Internal Financial Controls within a manufacturing, industrial, or asset-intensive environment.
  • Experience applying economic thinking and total-value decision making across sourcing, inventory, supplier, or operational decisions.
  • Experience partnering and influencing across operations, maintenance, reliability, finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience leading organizational change, transformation initiatives, or process improvement efforts.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and maximize team contribution by leading multi-layered teams of managers, buyers, storeroom personnel, and analysts, fostering positive work environments, capability development, and high performance.
  • Build talent pipelines through effective onboarding, training programs, capability standards, and measurable performance expectations.
  • Apply comparative advantage principles to align talent with roles where they can create the greatest value.
  • Connect team members to business priorities and strategic objectives while fostering ownership and contribution motivation.
  • Translate operational needs into enterprise sourcing strategies that improve reliability, profitability, working capital, and supplier performance.
  • Lead execution of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement strategic priorities across the Consumer Products segment.
  • Develop and strengthen strategic supplier relationships and supplier performance management processes.
  • Apply economic thinking, opportunity cost, and total-value decision making when evaluating sourcing and supplier strategies.
  • Own division-wide Procure-to-Pay processes, including standard work, governance processes, performance metrics, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure Internal Financial Controls are understood, appropriately managed, and consistently executed.
  • Partner with maintenance and operations teams to improve maintenance, repair, and operations and services sourcing effectiveness and site competitiveness.
  • Drive inventory optimization, reserve reduction, and procurement process improvements that improve working capital performance while supporting operational reliability.
  • Influence and partner across operations, maintenance, reliability, finance, accounting, and corporate leadership to align priorities and accelerate value creation.
  • Lead organizational and process transformation initiatives, including enterprise resource planning implementations, standardization efforts, and continuous improvement programs.
  • Represent Strategic Sourcing & Procurement in enterprise initiatives and help scale best practices across the division.
  • Apply Principle Based Management principles, including comparative advantage, economic thinking, aligned incentives, and knowledge sharing, to strengthen capability and performance.
  • Reduce variability through scalable, enterprise-wide processes while promoting a 'One GP Way' mindset.
  • Foster a culture of respectful challenge, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience leading maintenance, repair, and operations, outage, and services sourcing within asset-intensive manufacturing environments.
  • Experience supporting containerboard, corrugated, pulp, cellulose, paper, chemical, or similar industrial manufacturing operations.
  • Experience optimizing storeroom operations, inventory management, reserve reduction, and working capital performance.
  • Demonstrated success leading enterprise resource planning, digital procurement, analytics, or process transformation initiatives with sustained adoption and measurable value realization.
  • Experience developing supplier performance management programs and long-term strategic supplier partnerships.
  • Experience establishing key performance indicator frameworks, governance processes, and standard work that improve consistency across multiple operations.

About the company

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)

Total Funding

$985.2M

Headquarters

Wichita, Kansas

Founded

1940

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What believers are saying

  • Koch raised $224.4 million in equity financing on March 10, 2026, preserving dry powder.
  • Koch's Africa fertilizer foothold expands global phosphate reach from Morocco's Jorf complex.
  • Closed Tacoma gypsum plant concentrates capital into stronger Georgia-Pacific assets and higher-margin lines.

What critics are saying

  • DOJ opened a fertilizer antitrust probe in March 2026, risking criminal charges and damages.
  • Farmers filed class actions in March and June 2026 against Koch Agronomic Services.
  • Georgia-Pacific will close Tacoma's gypsum plant on October 30, 2026, cutting 125 jobs.

What makes Koch Industries unique

  • Private since 1940, Koch reinvests earnings for decades, not quarterly Wall Street optics.
  • Koch Fertilizer expanded into Morocco on June 30, 2026 through Jorf Fertilizers ownership.
  • Georgia-Pacific and Koch Agronomic Services give Koch integrated positions across packaging and fertilizers.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Paid Vacation
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Fertility Treatment Support
  • Parental Leave
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-59%

1 year growth

-59%

2 year growth

-59%
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