Senior Log Buyer

Senior log-buyer work runs across the strategic-procurement layer of forest-products operations — leading major timber-procurement contracts (often multi-year arrangements with timber-management companies, large landowners, or government timber-sale operations), managing senior supplier relationships across the logger and timber-management community, supporting strategic decisions about mill-feedstock supply, and mentoring junior log buyers. The senior buyer works timber-pricing references, the operation's procurement framework, and the cross-functional partnerships with mill operations and forestry consultants. Volume-secured outcomes, supply-strategy results, and senior-relationship outcomes drive the operating measures.

What distinguishes senior log buying is the strategic-supply dimension — senior buyers shape the mill's timber-supply strategy across years (long-term timber-supply agreements, fee-timber relationships, government-timber-sale participation), with the strategic-procurement work affecting mill viability across decades. Variance is wide: at integrated forest-products companies (Weyerhaeuser, Georgia-Pacific, Domtar, others) the role works within structured procurement organizations; at smaller mills or specialty operations it tilts more entrepreneurial.

This role fits people who are deeply forestry-fluent, commercially sophisticated, and comfortable with the rural-and-relationship work senior timber procurement involves. SAF senior credentials, forest-products industry experience, and ongoing CE anchor seniority. The trade-off is the rural field-time the work involves and the timber-market volatility senior procurement decisions navigate.