Director, IT Procurement Solutions

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Job Description

At Gilead we are committed to improving lives through innovation collaboration and a relentless focus on delivering value. We are seeking a leader who is passionate about driving transformation in enterprise procurement and IT platforms.

Job Description

The Director IT Procurement Applications will lead the global delivery support and transformation of enterprise procurement systems. This role is accountable for the end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) platforms including solutioning in SAP S4 Ariba Fieldglass Concur and ORO.

This leader will oversee strategic initiatives system lifecycle management vendor coordination and program delivery across core ERP platforms and its peripheral systems. The role requires strong business partnership technical understanding and operational leadership to ensure scalable compliant and high-performing solutions across a complex application landscape.

This role will report to the Senior Director ERP Finance & Commercial Solutions.

This is a site based position at our global headquarters in Foster City CA. We do offer a hybrid evironment with 3 days on campus (Tues-Thurs) and two days work remote.

Key Responsibilities

Lead global procurement application delivery and roadmap execution

Own S2P and P2P processes across sourcing supplier management workforce and expense

Drive system stability performance and enhancements

Manage escalations and ensure timely issue resolution

Enable transformation initiatives and platform modernization

Procurement Solution Leadership

Set strategy for procurement applications and ecosystem

Lead platform design and evolution aligned to enterprise goals

Ensure scalability performance and resilience

Provide architecture and integration expertise. Evaluating and recommending the best path forward based on company goals.

Business Alignment & Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with Procurement Finance and Supply Chain leaders

Translate business needs into scalable IT solutions

Drive alignment and influence senior leadership

Program Delivery & Governance

• Lead a global team responsible for procurement support enhancements roadmap execution and transformation initiatives.
• Oversee production support including issue escalation and resolution of critical incidents to ensure business continuity.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks operating models delivery standards and KPIs for global Procurement delivery.
• Drive disciplined execution across large-scale ERP programs ongoing support and strategic transformation initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with SOX GxP and enterprise architecture standards including adherence to financial controls and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee release management delivery quality and risk mitigation across enhancements and projects.
• Partner with change management teams to drive adoption training and overall business readiness.

Cross-Functional Integration

• Oversee integrations across the broader finance ecosystem including:
  • Oracle FCCS (financial consolidation)
  • SAP
  • Boundary Systems
• Ensure seamless end-to-end process integration across procurement tax vendor management workforce and expense systems.
• Partner with enterprise architecture and engineering teams to support a cohesive system landscape.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Champion continuous improvement across finance processes and supporting technologies.
• Identify opportunities to simplify standardize and automate adoption of innovative solutions including AI advanced analytics and SAP BTP capabilities.
• Capture lessons learned and embed operational excellence across Procurement delivery and a culture of innovation accountability collaboration and results.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Finance Business or a related field.12 years of relevant experience with an advanced degree or 15 years with a bachelors degree in Finance IT SAP or ERP leadership.
• Deep expertise in Ariba Concur and other SAP applications5 years of leadership experience managing global SAP or ERP teams and/or large-scale support organizations.
• Proven experience leading large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementations transformations and/or global ERP delivery programs.
• Exposure to SAP RISE or cloud transformation
• Strong understanding of global Finance processes financial controls and integrated finance ecosystems.
• Experience with complex integrations across SAP and non-SAP enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive end-to-end STS process design and communication stakeholder management decision-making and influencing skills.
• Ability to balance strategic priorities compliance requirements and operational execution with a strong focus on outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Life Sciences or regulated of SOX GxP and compliance-driven environments.
• Exposure to RISE with SAP SAP BTP and cloud-based transformation initiatives.
• Background in Procurement process optimization automation and digital innovation.

Leadership Profile

• Strategic leader with strong business and technical ability to influence CFO CIO and senior executive stakeholders.
• Experienced in leading global cross-functional teams and programs.
• Strong focus on innovation governance and operational excellence.
• Collaborative results-driven and capable of balancing strategic priorities with operational execution.
• Operates with high accountability execution discipline and strong business partnership

People Leader Accountabilities

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
• Develop Talent - understand the skills experience aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow develop and realize their purpose.
• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals purpose and organizational objectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

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