Sr. Manager, Procurement Excellence

Position Overview

The Manager of Procurement Excellence plays a critical influencing role, acting as a change agent in bringing about improvements to end-to-end processes. These processes include but may not be limited to procurement intake, source to contract, purchase to pay and supplier relationship management.

Develop and implement strategies to drive procurement operations transformation. Responsible for driving procurement excellence and elevating the function’s value proposition. Oversee the procurement systems roadmap, administration coordination, automation opportunities, integrations, and user adoption strategies.

The role involves focusing on areas, including:

• Policy and process improvement (simplification, standardization, scaling)
• Digital transformation, system design and administration
• Performance measurement
• Cross-functional operating models
• Governance and compliance
• Oversight of buyer activities
• Quality assurance & data integrity/reliability
• Template creation & management (RFx, SRM, Project Mgmt., Value Tracking)
• Organizational Procurement reporting (spend, contracts, KPI/performance)

This role’s focus reaches into operational scalability, workflow governance, and overall enterprise process optimization.

• Developing and documenting plans to improve procurement capabilities, processes, systems, and policies to enable procurement delivery and governance.
• Establishes frameworks, processes and measurement strategies that enhance efficiency, governance, performance, resilience and visibility.
• Collects and synthesizes improvement opportunities both from within and outside of the organization.
• Coordinates a cross‑functional procurement excellence council that provides advice on perceived capability gaps, priorities and opportunities.
• Assesses and designs key digital transformation opportunities that foster scalability, visibility, value assurance, and governance.

• Identifying and executing on strategies targeting enterprise procurement digital and process capability improvement and performance efficiency.
• Works closely with procurement leadership to lead and coordinate transformation initiatives, efficiently administering projects.
• Enables and maintains a repository of ongoing projects, ensuring project plans and documentation are available and up to date.
• Develops project and communications plans around digital and/or process transformation initiatives.

• Acts as a change agent, enthusing procurement staff and stakeholders about upcoming changes.
• Operates as the face of procurement systems and policy, working with procurement leadership to communicate and showcase the function’s protocol, systems, and related changes.
• Oversees the rollout of the departmental learning and development strategy, to ensure ongoing improvement in procurement capability.
• Plays a mentorship and coaching role where required.

• Leading cross‑functional initiatives and developing business partnerships with key governance and process areas.
• Operates in close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the business and category‑level staff in understanding their requirements, key areas of opportunity, escalating feedback and bringing individuals together around shared initiatives.
• Works with governance areas (legal, IT Security, etc.) to optimize contract management processes, agreement templates and process.
• Partners with digital leaders across the business in aligning digital and data strategies.
• Ensures the procurement team can provide accurate and timely information, as required, in areas such as: spend visibility, contract reporting and notifications, preferred supplier profiles/lists, cycle times and Procurement KPIs.
• Acts as the central point of contact for audits or queries surrounding process changes and performance measurement.

• Business case development:
  Obtains support for ideas by creating detailed and workable processes, policy and/or technology proposals; considering the strategic, commercial, financial, and business management implications.
• Managing and promoting change:
  Is agile…