Job Details

Location: Houston, TX

Posted: October 29, 2025

Job Type: Full Time

Req# 2025-4039

Supply Chain

Position Summary

The Director, Indirect & Commercial Procurement plays a pivotal role in driving material procurement strategies that support Empower Pharmacy's mission of expanding access to quality, affordable medications. This role ensures continuity, cost-efficiency, and compliance across all indirect and commercial material categories. With a focus on innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence, this leader will influence strategic sourcing, vendor partnerships, and digital transformation, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to advance the performance and scalability of a compounding pharmaceutical environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads the development, implementation, and continuous refinement of strategic sourcing initiatives across all indirect spend categories, including facilities, marketing, office services, and professional services, to drive cost optimization and supplier performance.
• Manages commercial material procurement planning, ensuring optimal inventory levels and compliance with Food and Drug Administration, Drug Enforcement Administration, and current Good Manufacturing Practices requirements.
• Cultivates and strengthens strategic vendor partnerships to enhance service reliability, drive innovation, reduce total cost of ownership, and enable scalability aligned with Empower's growth trajectory.
• Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to ensure procurement strategies are fully integrated with organizational goals, regulatory standards, and financial targets.
• Champions the adoption of advanced procurement technologies, including AI and analytics platforms, to improve spend visibility, forecasting accuracy, supplier risk management, and data-driven decision-making across the procurement lifecycle.

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The employee is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced, evolving organization.
• Proficiency in procurement systems and Enterprise Resource Planning platforms such as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing or Oracle, with advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities, including experience deploying AI or machine learning tools in procurement, spend analysis, or supply risk management.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer centric solutions.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quality, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and objectives.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match shifting demands of different situations.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Values

• People: Our people define who we are as a company, and we believe that understanding and addressing the needs of our team, clients, and community is fundamental to fostering a culture of support and growth.
• Quality: Quality stands at the core of our mission, reflecting our commitment to excellence in every medication we produce.
• Service: We are here to serve others. Every interaction with our patients, providers, employees and other stakeholders comes from a place of service.
• Innovation: By continuously exploring new methodologies and embracing technology, we ensure that every solution we offer is at the forefront of pharmaceutical care.

Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain management within a pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or regulated environment, including 5 years in a leadership role.
• Requires a Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business administration, engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM); Project Management Professional (PMP); Six Sigma Certification preferred.

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: