Senior Timber Buyer

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

What distinguishes senior timber-buying is the strategic-supply dimension combined with industry-relationship work — senior buyers shape feedstock strategy across years and decades, with significant timber-procurement decisions affecting mill economics over substantial periods. Variance is wide: at integrated forest-products companies (Weyerhaeuser, Georgia-Pacific, Domtar, Resolute) the role works within structured procurement organizations; at smaller mills or specialty operations it tilts more entrepreneurial with broader senior responsibility.

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