Sourcing & Procurement Risk Director

Your Job

We are seeking a principled and influential Sourcing Risk Director to help shape the future of risk, controls, and compliance across a $7 billion procurement organization spanning approximately 400 sourcing and procurement professionals and multiple ERP platforms.

Reporting to the Vice President of Continuous Improvement & Transformation, this highly visible leadership role will strengthen internal controls, reduce enterprise risk, and drive continuous improvement across the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle.

As a trusted advisor and change leader, you will translate risk insights into practical, scalable solutions that enhance performance, improve decision quality, and enable responsible growth.

You will partner closely with senior leaders across Sourcing, Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Digital capabilities to build a culture where strong controls and business results go hand in hand.

Success in this role requires the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, simplify complexity, and drive adoption through clear communication and disciplined execution.

This is a unique opportunity to help modernize how procurement manages risk-leveraging data, technology, and process excellence to create a stronger, more resilient sourcing organization while enabling teams to deliver greater value to the business.

Location: This role is based at the GP Center in Downtown Atlanta, with a hybrid schedule and the expectation of being onsite at the GP Center more often than not.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic sourcing and procurement of critical materials and services supporting over 100+ facilities nationwide.

Our team drives value through category management, supplier partnerships, and innovative process improvements.

Join us during an exciting transformation as we build new capabilities, improve efficiencies, and capture significant savings.

What You Will Do


* Sourcing Compliance System Leader: Own the development of the annual plan based on risk and value, working with and through our designated compliance system owners (CSO) against our compliance standards and internal controls.


* Annual Risk Assessments: lead the annual risk assessments to identify potential compliance and internal control risks and work with compliance system owners and capability leaders to develop mitigation strategies.


* Standard Work & Process Discipline: Work with the Process & Training team to embed compliance and internal controls into our standard processes, standard work and leader standard work.


* Purchasing Policy Owner: Serve as the Purchasing Policy owner, partnering with capability teams and Finance to make meaningful updates based on benchmarking, regulatory changes, and industry best practices.


* Knowledge Sharing: Stay up to date with changes in the regulatory requirements and industry best practices by working directly with our GP and ...