Cheryl D'Cruz-Young

Cheryl D'Cruz-Young is a Managing Director in the New York office of Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson. She leads the Regional Procurement and Supply Chain Practice and is a member of the Consumer Practice.

As a functional expert in Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Cheryl specializes in the placement of senior executives for the Americas, and works in close collaboration with the Ray & Berndtson partnership to successfully search at the global level. Cheryl has international experience herself, having worked and lived in London, Paris and New York for multinational companies.

Cheryl's ability to articulate the critical strategic nature of the Procurement and Supply Chain function, delivering bottom-line value through a genuine approach to supplier collaboration, facilitated rapid career progression. She has broad regional and global experience, successfully outsourcing non-core competencies at Glaxo, in addition to devising and implementing procurement best practices across the Coca Cola Enterprise businesses in the Benelux, France and the UK. In 2002, Cheryl moved to New York to assist with the formation of the Cadbury Schweppes (CS) Americas Procurement function, successfully harmonizing pan-American sourcing strategies. In 2004, after the Adams Inc. acquisition Cheryl led the Packaging integration across the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia and Mexico. Here, she and her team, embedded efficient and productive low cost country sourcing solutions within a famously fast paced packaging sector.

Prior to joining Executive Search, Cheryl was responsible for the CS Americas-wide procurement development strategy, working with her Regional counterparts to ensure global capability alignment . During that period she witnessed first hand the mission critical challenges the procurement function faces in talent acquisition, retention and development. Cheryl received her MA in Financial Economics in 1992. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Supply Chain in the UK and a participative member of the Institute of Supply Management in the US. She resides in New York with her husband and two very active sons.