Sr Manager, Procurement Center of Excellence

The Senior Manager Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) is a strategic leadership role responsible for building and overseeing the enterprise procurement enablement engine. This role drives measurable procurement impact by establishing bestinclass contract management practices sourcing project governance spend and category analytics and a robust catalog of tools templates and intelligence that enable buyers to perform at a higher level.

The Senior Manager acts as a force multiplier for the procurement organizationstandardizing how work is done ensuring sourcing initiatives are effectively managed and measured and translating data and market intelligence into actionable insights for leadership and category teams.

Key Responsibilities

Procurement Impact & Governance

• Define and implement a procurement impact measurement framework including savings cost avoidance value creation and risk mitigation metrics
• Establish governance standards for sourcing and contracting activities to ensure consistency compliance and transparency
• Partner with Procurement leadership and Finance to align reporting methodologies and validate results

Sourcing Project Management Office (PMO)

• Design and lead a sourcing project management framework including intake prioritization milestone tracking and postaward validation
• Ensure sourcing initiatives are executed with discipline on time and with clear accountability
• Provide portfoliolevel visibility into sourcing pipeline health capacity and outcomes

Contract Management Enablement

• Oversee contract management standards templates and playbooks to improve cycle time risk management and value realization
• Partner with Legal and category teams to ensure contracts are leveraged effectively postaward
• Drive continuous improvement in contract compliance and lifecycle management practices

Spend Reporting & Category Analytics

• Lead the development of enterpriselevel spend reporting and analytics capabilities
• Translate spend and category data into insights that inform sourcing strategies demand management and supplier decisions
• Establish recurring executivelevel dashboards and ad hoc analytical support for leadership

Tools Templates & Buyer Enablement

• Build and maintain a centralized catalog of procurement tools templates guides and best practices
• Standardize sourcing contracting and supplier management artifacts to improve quality and efficiency
• Continuously assess buyer needs and evolve resources to increase effectiveness and consistency across the organization

Market Research & Intelligence

• Develop a scalable approach to category research supplier intelligence and market trend analysis
• Ensure category and sourcing teams have access to relevant insights to support negotiations and strategic decisions
• Curate internal and external intelligence sources to support longterm procurement planning

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Procurement leadership category managers and functional stakeholders
• Influence without authority to drive adoption of standards and processes
• Lead mentor and potentially manage CoE team members as the function matures

Qualifications :

Required

• Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain Finance or a related field
• 812 years of progressive procurement finance accounting or related experience
• Demonstrated experience leading enterpriselevel initiatives PMOstyle governance or centers of excellence
• Strong analytical capability with experience in spend analysis reporting and executivelevel insights
• Proven ability to design scalable processes tools and frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• This position requires candidates to be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Preferred

• Masters degree (MBA or equivalent)
• Experience with procurement analytics platforms contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and sourcing suites
• Prior people leadership or CoE buildout experience
• Professional certifications (e.g. CPSM CPM CIPS CFP PMP)

Additional Information :

• Nation-wide Medical Plan/Dental/Vision
• 401(k) Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption Assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Weekly Pay

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time