Manager, Procurement COE in Norwalk

Job Description

Manager, Procurement — COE

Franchise World Headquarters, LLC

Shelton, CT

At Subway, we are not standing still. We are building.

This is a business focused on what matters most: growing franchisee profitability, strengthening our brand and creating long-term value. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to make a real impact.

You will not just do the work. You will shape it.

We move fast. We think like owners. We make decisions that matter. We hold ourselves to a high standard because what we do directly impacts thousands of franchisees around the world.

If you bring energy, accountability and a bias for action, you will fit right in.

We take the work seriously, but we also know the best results come from teams that support each other, celebrate wins and show up ready to build something better every day.

This is your chance to be part of what’s next.

The Manager, Procurement Center of Excellence is a key leadership role in Subway's Procurement transformation. While the sourcing teams own category strategies and negotiate the deals, the COE Manager is the operating backbone that makes everything work. This includes owning the systems, data, analytics, reporting, and governance infrastructure that allows Procurement to deliver and prove its value to the enterprise.

• Work with VP Procurement, peers and other key stakeholders to lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of Procurement's digital stack. This may be an end-to-end procure to pay platform or specific key technologies such as spend analytics, contract lifecycle management, and project and savings tracking tools. Most critical is how these technologies will be leveraged to the benefit of the organization and Procurement's focus on driving EBITDA improvement
• Serve as the Procurement function's technology owner on an ongoing basis, managing platform performance, vendor relationships, system integrations, user access, and continuous improvement
• Coordinate with IT on systems connectivity, data feeds, and integration architecture to ensure procurement data flows cleanly across platforms
• Champion tool adoption across the Procurement team and business stakeholders through training, communication, and ongoing support

• Build and maintain the enterprise spend cube, cleansing, categorizing, and enriching spend data from all sources into a reliable, analytics-ready foundation
• Develop spend analytics and category insights that identify savings opportunities, track maverick spend, and support sourcing strategy across all procurement pillars
• Produce dashboards and reporting that give VP Procurement and senior leadership real-time visibility into spend by category, supplier, business unit, and geography
• Support sourcing teams with data-driven opportunity analysis, benchmark research, and savings modeling for category strategies and sourcing events

• Design and own the Procurement savings tracking methodology by establishing the framework for how initiatives are identified, categorized, valued, tracked, and validated from identification through Finance sign-off
• Maintain the savings pipeline across all sourcing pillars, ensuring every initiative has an owner, a delivery date, a confidence level, and a Finance-validated outcome
• Partner directly with FP&A on savings validation, reporting, period-end reconciliation, and alignment between Procurement's pipeline and Finance's view of delivered EBITDA
• Produce Finance-grade savings and pipeline reports for VP Procurement, CFO, and leadership reviews on a defined cadence

• Build and run the Procurement center of excellence office, tracking all active sourcing initiatives, technology projects, and function build-out work streams with clear milestones, owners, and status
• Establish and maintain Procurement governance standards: policy documentation, process maps, approval workflows, sourcing playbooks, and compliance tracking
• Prepare VP Procurement for leadership reviews, CFO updates, and senior level reporting, ensuring materials are accurate, clear, and ready
• Identify and escal risk, blockers, and delivery gaps before they become problems; keep the function running on track against its commitments

• Develop and deliver procurement training programs and capability resources for the broader Procurement team covering tools,…