Senior Director, AI & Digital Procurement Transformation

Overview

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion. At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future. This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark.

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Your Future Starts Here. If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.

The Opportunity

Hexion is seeking a transformational procurement leader to architect and execute a bold reinvention of the procurement function. This is not a caretaker role. The incoming leader will inherit a function that is heavily execution-focused — reliant on manual P2P processes, disconnected market intelligence, reactive risk management, and siloed data — and will be charged with helping to build a future-state operating model centered on three pillars:

• Human Value Teams — Agile "Pods" focused on Supplier Strategy, Innovation, Risk Shaping, and Business Partnering
• AI Layer — AI Sourcing Agents, Predictive Analytics, Cost & Risk Models, and Autonomous Negotiations
• Digital / Global Capabilities Center (GCC)
  Factory — Touchless P2P, Automated Tail Spend, Exceptions-Based Handling, and Clean Real-Time Data

More specifically, the successful candidate will develop and lead an AI-native Center of Excellence (the AI Layer) and deploy automation throughout the Source to Pay processes.

The goal:
By introducing 30% of procurement work executed by AI vs. Humans, enable +3–5x more time on value creation, 30–50% reduction in process costs and cycle time, and data-driven insights for strategic advantage.

This is not your average “let’s try a few AI use cases”. Our intent is to revolutionize how procurement gets done and that requires radical change in mindset, process and technology. We are not looking to improve, optimize or document. We are looking to redesign by doing. This is not the typical process of hiring an AI Leader to define the roadmap to then roll out tools process.

The new leader will pick use cases, build fast, prove its value and then scale and put structure behind it. So, if you love to re-imagine procurement, fail fast while implementing and pivot equally fast, this can be your dream job.

Strategic Transformation Leadership

• Own and drive the end-to-end procurement transformation roadmap from current state to the AI-enabled target operating model
• Design and stand up the Agile "Pod" structure, transitioning sourcing teams from category execution to strategic supplier partnerships, innovation scouting, and risk shaping
• Build the business case and secure executive sponsorship for AI and digital investments across the procurement function
• Establish KPIs and governance to measure transformation progress, value capture, and organizational capability maturity

AI & Digital Procurement

• Partner with IT, Data Science, and external technology providers to deploy AI Sourcing Agents, predictive analytics, and autonomous negotiation capabilities
• Lead the implementation of cost and risk models that enable proactive decision-making on raw materials, logistics, and indirect spend
• Architect the transition from manual processes to a Digital / GCC Factory model with touchless P2P, automated tail spend management, and exceptions-based workflows
• Ensure clean, real-time…