Senior Director, Strategy to Order Process & Digitization Center of Excellence

Job Description

General

Summary:

As a key strategic leader in the Strategic Sourcing function, the Senior Director, Strategy to Order Process & Digitization COE leader is responsible for enabling the strategic sourcing organizational value delivery through relevant, effective, and optimized end to end processes, driving a digital and systems strategy and enabling capabilities with a focus on digitization. The role is also responsible for enabling and generating data, insights and analytics to drive decision-making across the strategic sourcing and broader accounting organization and for the business.

This role will work cross-functionally across the strategic sourcing and broader accounting organization to develop and embed approaches and tools for strategic category strategy development, enablement and ongoing category management, sourcing plan execution, and end to end operationalization through P2P, and user intake and orchestration. The role will own, lead, and drive development and adoption of Source to Pay end to end roadmap and tools to enable successful outcomes for the business in alignment with the strategic sourcing and P2P teams.

As a senior member of the Strategic Sourcing group, this leadership role will be expected to provide strategic input in the future direction of the function including developing roadmaps and vision for the evolution of our process, data, and technology strategy in collaboration with DTE and cross-functional teams. They will possess a high-level of subject matter expertise, in sourcing as well as in tools and processes to support the end-to-end strategy to pay process.

Working collaboratively with internal Business Stakeholders, the leader is expected to ensure their teams' activities are aligned with Business priorities and objectives. This role will communicate with senior leaders and be viewed as a trusted business advisor for strategic sourcing. The role will effectively articulate the vision and strategy for the Strategic Sourcing function and value to the business.

In addition, the leader is expected to support and lead large process improvement initiatives that will drive significant value to Vertex, including defining annual team goals for value beyond savings as well as cost savings targets in collaboration with the strategic sourcing teams and enable the delivery.

The ideal candidate is a strategic forward‑thinking leader with a deep understanding of procurement, digital technologies, change management and user‑centric design, and proven experience and delivering on strategic vision and roadmaps.

Key

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy, design, digitization, implementation, and continuous improvement of global strategic sourcing and procurement to order end to end processes (in partnership with the P2P team) to enhance the value and impact of the strategic sourcing and P2P organizations to business objectives.
• Develop and partner to execute on multi‑year digital process and technology roadmap for P2P, including evaluating, implementing and optimizing strategic sourcing and procurement technologies and tools to enhance automation and data drive decision‑making and simplified and orchestrated user experience, including a strategy and roadmap to enable evolving business needs.
• Enable cross functional sourcing teams responsible for developing and evolving robust multi‑year category strategies and sourcing plans that are pulled through in the end‑to‑end procurement process through streamlined buying channels, management of strategic supplier relationship and performance management;
  Lead through example to position the strategic sourcing organization to be a more strategic partner to the business and bring an enterprise category lens to maximize both business and category value for the company.

• Owns overall capability for Sourcing & Procurement organization team development and skill building focusing on "soft" skills (effective business partnering, influence, enterprise thinking, communication, active listening, executive presence), business skills, and "hard" sourcing skills.
• Own and manage processes and tools such as Market Intelligence, RFXs,…