Director of Procurement

Position overview

Strategic sourcing and procurement

• Develop and lead strategic sourcing across key spending categories using disciplined, transparent, competitive, risk-informed processes.
• Set sourcing standards for business cases, competitive bids, exceptions, and delegated approvals; oversee supplier proposals, bids, pricing, and negotiations.
• Deliver savings, cost avoidance, demand management, supplier consolidation, contract optimization, and process efficiency.
• Coordinate vendor evaluations, risk reviews, and issue resolution through the contract lifecycle.

Accounts payable and finance coordination

• Own and improve requisitioning, vendor payment data, invoicing, approvals, payment workflows, and P2P system integration.
• Work with Finance to reduce bottlenecks and manual work, improve data quality, and use key performance indicators.
• Support vendor-spend forecasting, budget preparation, and accrual identification.
• Design and monitor controls for vendor records, purchasing authority, invoice approvals, employee expenses, sponsorships, and documentation.

Reporting, governance, and risk

• Develop recurring reporting, trend analysis, and recommendations on enterprise spend, supplier performance, process efficiency, controls, and material issues.
• Monitor due diligence and periodic reviews; document and escalate overdue items, exceptions, risks, control deficiencies, contractual concerns, and supplier issues.
• Establish operational metrics, technology strategy, staffing models, and a risk-based procurement governance framework with relevant business functions.
• Define vendor and service owner, approver, Accounts Payable, and oversight responsibilities; maintain controls over vendors, purchasing, approvals, and payments.
• Support regulatory examinations, internal and external audits, and remediation of procurement, contracting, and P2P findings.

Requirements

• Build and oversee a scalable end-to-end procurement-to-payment process across approximately $30 million in annual spend and approximately 300 vendors.
• Demonstrate procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor strategy, and contract negotiation expertise.
• Work collaboratively with Finance, Legal, IT, Operations, Compliance, and business leaders.
• Support financial controls, Accounts Payable integration, and budgeting in coordination with Finance leadership.