Location(s)

Atlanta, Georgia

Company

Georgia-Pacific

Career Field

Procurement & Sourcing

Job Number

190360

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 Koch compliance teams and sharing knowledge through the capability and ensure standard work & process discipline is adjusted, as needed.
Anomaly detection: Partner with IT, Finance and the CSC to develop and deploy anomaly detection tool(s) to identify potential high-risk situations. Own the methodology to assign tier levels to anomalies and deploy investigative resources against tier 1 anomalies, while finding other ways to leverage the data in other tiers.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

7+ years of experience in areas such as Sourcing & Procurement, Operations, Finance, process improvement, internal financial controls, legal compliance, and/or risk management.
Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels and create an inclusive, challenge-driven environment. 
Ability to prioritize work in a dynamic environment
Willingness to travel up to 25% depending on location and business needs
Experience in a manufacturing organization

What Will Put You Ahead

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering or related field
Experience in complex manufacturing and/or Pulp & Paper Industry
Experience working with multiple business segments within a company

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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