VP, Procure

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Motive is looking for a Vice President, Procure-to-Pay (“P2P”) to lead, scale, and transform our global end-to-end procurement, strategic sourcing, and purchasing operations. Reporting as an executive leader, this role owns the overarching vision, organizational architecture, and cross-functional strategies that ensure Motive maximizes commercial leverage, scales efficiently, and maintains robust operational controls across all business units.

This executive role requires a transformational leader and seasoned operator who pairs strategic sourcing expertise with executive presence. The ideal candidate will architect enterprise vendor relationships, modernize global workflows through world class systems and processes, align executive stakeholders, and drive substantial bottom-line savings while enabling business velocity.

• Executive Leadership & Vision: Architect and execute Motive’s global procure-to-pay strategy across strategic sourcing, vendor management, purchasing operations, and continuous process transformation.
• Commercial Strategy & Savings: Drive enterprise-wide cost savings initiatives and value creation by leading high-stakes profitability initiatives, commercial frameworks, and vendor portfolio strategies.
• Key Deal Architect: Direct the negotiation strategy for critical, high-value vendor contracts, specifically across enterprise software, technology infrastructure, and global business services.
• P2P Systems & Processes: Ensure P2P systems at Motive are best-in-class, designed to scale for growth both in volume and globally. Develop P2P processes to be efficient and automated by leveraging AI and other tools, while also maintaining compliance to public company level standards.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Serve as a core partner to the C-suite, departmental senior leaders and key stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, IT, Legal, Security, Workplace, and G&A to enable strategic corporate priorities.
• Scale & Governance: Establish enterprise-grade procurement policies, risk mitigation frameworks, and internal controls that safeguard the business while optimizing the employee experience.
• Operational Excellence: Define and optimize the end-to-end intake, review, and governance model for enterprise-wide vendor onboarding and tool acquisition.
• Data & Analytics: Establish advanced spend analytics, vendor performance scorecards, cycle-time tracking, and savings reporting for executive-level visibility.
• Team Development: Build, mentor, and scale a world-class, high-performing global organization across procurement operations, accounts payable and strategic sourcing.
• Fiscal Responsibility: Direct departmental capital allocation, support department leaders in managing operating budgets, and ensure strategic cost discipline aligned with long‑term financial goals.
• Strategic Advisory: Serve as the principal executive advisor on procurement risk, vendor consolidation, trade‑offs, and spend optimization.

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