Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the Company
The Principal – Procurement & AI Delivery is BT Digital's strategic and technical authority for the end-to-end SAP Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Procurement technology estate. This is a principal-level leadership role spanning SAP S/4
HANA Procurement, SAP Ariba (now rebuilt as an AI-native platform on SAP BTP), SAP Concur, Sirion CLM, Nnamu, Who Buys What spend visibility, and a growing portfolio of cloud-native and AI-powered procurement tools. BT Group manages billions in annual procurement spend across direct and indirect categories, and the Procurement technology estate is the intelligence layer that governs how that spend is sourced, contracted, approved, paid, and optimised.
As the world's leading Source-to-Pay platforms undergo their most significant AI transformation in a decade — with SAP Ariba rebuilt from the ground up on SAP BTP with embedded Joule agents, and Sirion CLM recognised as the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for the fourth consecutive year — BT Digital needs a Principal who can navigate this landscape with authority and turn SAP and third-party AI innovation into competitive advantage for B
T.
This is not a BAU technology management role. It is a transformation leadership position — owning the multi-year Procurement technology roadmap, driving AI adoption across the S2P lifecycle, governing the commercial and licence estate, and building the technical SME capability that BT Digital needs to operate at the frontier of AI-powered procurem
ent.
About th
e Role
What you will be doing (Role Accountab
ilities)
Respon
sibilities
Procurement Tech
Roadmap:
Own and maintain BT’s multi-year procurement technology strategy, aligned with BT’s
principles.
Architecture & Governance:
Define the path to a clean-core, AI-enabled procurement architecture, including legacy tool s
unset plans.
SAP Ariba Adoption:
Lead BT’s migration to AI-native SAP Ariba, managing strategy, pilots, and deployment o
f AI agents.
Emerging AI Capabilities:
Evaluate and develop plans for new procurement AI tools, translating innovation into evidence-based
investments.
Sirion CLM Strategy:
Oversee BT’s contract lifecycle management strategy, ensuring AI capabilities are compliant an
d effective.
Spend Visibility & Intelligence:
Drive BT’s spend analysis, maverick spend detection, and forecasting to enable faster, smarte
r decisions.
Business Cases & Investment:
Lead business case development for procurement tech investments, ensuring rigorous, evidence-backe
d proposals.
SAP Licence Optimization:
Manage SAP procurement licensing, minimizing risks and optim
izing costs.
Capability Building:
Develop technical SME skills across procurement platforms through training, certification, and
mentorship.
Governance & KPIs:
Create and monitor dashboards and KPIs to track procurement tech performance and
AI adoption.
Problem Management & Service Quality:
Lead problem resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement
initiatives.
AI Transformation Delivery:
Oversee procurement AI strategy, pilots, and deployment, ensuring evidence-led scaling and value
realization.
Data Strategy & Governance:
Manage procurement AI data pipelines, ensuring security, compliance, and effective analytics
enablement.
Responsible AI Governance:
Maintain ethical AI standards, transparency, and compliance across procurement AI a
pplications.
Vendor & SAP Partnership:
Act as BT’s interface with SAP and vendors, aligning product roadmaps and ensuring early access to
innovations.
Knowledge Sharing & Assurance:
Lead knowledge-sharing initiatives and provide technical assurance for procurement technolo
gy projects.
Qualifica
tions
Must Have
Deep S2P Domain Expertise:
End-to-end Source-to-Pay process ownership — from Sourcing and Contracting through Purchase-to-Pay, Invoice Management, and Supplier Performance — ideally across both SAP and non-SAP proc
urement platforms.
SAP Ariba & S/4
HANA Procurement:
Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP Ariba (sourcing, contracting, buying, supplier management) and SAP S/4
HANA MM/SRM procurement processes — including clean-core principles, BTP integration, and the next-gen A
riba architecture.
Contract Lifecycle Management:
Experience…
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