Procurement Digital Transformation Lead | Hybrid NY

The Procurement Digital Transformation Lead develops and executes the digital procurement roadmap that enables Enterprise Procurement to operate as a scalable, data-driven, and AI-enabled function. The role is responsible for translating procurement strategy and operating-model requirements into technology, automation, workflow, and digital capabilities that improve efficiency, governance, stakeholder experience, and enterprise value. Working collaboratively across the Procurement Center of Excellence (COE), Category Management, Vendor Management, Procurement Operations Hub, Information Technology, Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders, the role leads procurement technology initiatives, process digitization, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and adoption of modern procurement tools.

The Procurement Digital Transformation Lead serves as the functional lead for digital procurement transformation and partners with Procurement Operations and the COE to progressively transition repeatable work toward automated and digitally enabled execution.

• Develop and maintain the enterprise Digital Procurement Roadmap aligned with Procurement strategy, operating-model priorities, and business objectives.
• Translate procurement capability requirements into prioritized technology, automation, analytics, and digital enablement initiatives across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle.
• Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, and value propositions supporting procurement technology investments and capability enhancements.
• Evaluate emerging procurement technologies, AI capabilities, and digital solutions to improve scalability, decision-making, compliance, and stakeholder experience.
• Monitor delivery against roadmap milestones, expected benefits, adoption targets, and procurement maturity objectives.

• Serve as the functional lead for procurement technology capabilities, including Source-to-Pay, sourcing, contract lifecycle management, supplier and vendor management, analytics, intake, and workflow automation solutions.
• Partner with Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and technology vendors to define functional requirements and support system design, configuration, testing, deployment, and enhancement activities.
• Ensure procurement technology solutions support enterprise governance, data standards, user experience, process consistency, and operational scalability.
• Partner with Procurement Intelligence to enable procurement dashboards, supplier and vendor scorecards, performance reporting, and actionable digital insights.
• Support digital tooling and reporting capabilities required for Vendor Management governance, including scorecards, Q  reporting, action tracking, and risk/performance visibility.

• Lead end-to-end process digitization and automation initiatives across Procurement in partnership with the Procurement Operations Hub and COE.
• Identify repetitive, rules-based, and high-volume activities suitable for workflow automation, intelligent automation, AI-enabled solutions, or digital workforce execution.
• Design and implement AI-enabled procurement capabilities that improve productivity, quality, cycle time, decision support, and stakeholder experience.
• Partner with the Procurement Operations Hub to transition repeatable Source-to-Pay activities toward automated execution while maintaining appropriate controls, service quality, and exception management.
• Establish governance, controls, monitoring, and human oversight requirements for AI-enabled procurement processes and digital workforce capabilities.