Global Procurement Digital Solutions and Strategy Lead, Associate Director

Overview

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The opportunity

The purpose of the global EY organization is to Build a Better Working World. The insights and services the organization provides help to drive long-term value for clients, people and society and to build trust in the capital markets. An essential function under EY Business Enablement, Supply Chain Services (SCS), is a global team with more than 600 professionals in over 35 countries supporting the EY organization across the globe.

This structure helps enable knowledge-sharing across categories and regions, streamlining efforts in seeking innovative suppliers that can provide exceptional client service to maximize SCS’s value for the EY organization and the world s supply chain.

A key component of SCS is Global Procurement, whose purpose is to drive significant synergies and value creation from sourcing to contract lifecycle management, deliver exceptional client experiences and build more vital collaboration to manage Technology, Talent, Alliances and Brand, Marketing and Communications (BMC) categories. We forge meaningful supplier relationships and strengthen supplier resilience to help EY maximize long-term value for its people, clients and communities.

EY’s Global Procurement organization is scaling a next generation digital operating model across all Buying Channels, with AI and data at the core. As Senior Digital Solutions & Strategy Lead, you will own the digital vision and roadmap for Global Procurement from ideation and solution design through verification, rollout and operational enablement working across Technology, Category teams, Risk, Infosec and more to deliver measurable value at enterprise scale.

Why this role matters

Global Procurement drives synergy from sourcing through contract lifecycle management, strengthens supplier resilience and delivers exceptional internal client experience across Technology, Talent, Alliances and BMC categories. The function is executing an accelerated digital agenda (e.g., Autonomous Sourcing Agents (ASA), RFx CoPilot, Smart Landing Page/Faster Buying Channels, E2E procurement modernization), creating the foundation for AIdriven productivity, resilience, compliance and cost outcomes.

Your key responsibilities

• Own the digital transformation strategy and multiyear roadmap for Global Procurement, ensuring clear value, prioritisation and measurable outcomes.

• Act as functional product owner for End to End procurement transformation, defining scope, shaping business requirements, signing off on design, and ensuring smooth transition to BAU.

• Lead the design, pilot and scaleup of AIenabled capabilities (Autonomous Sourcing Agent, RFx CoPilot, Smart Landing Page / Faster Buying Channels).

• Oversee solution validation and UAT, confirming features meet functional needs and deliver the intended business value.

• Partner with Technology to drive programme delivery, managing dependencies, risks, sequencing, benefits, and cross functional alignment.

• Strengthen data, analytics and governance working with the reporting team, improving spend, supplier, and contract data quality, and enabling better insights and decision making.

• Embed risk, controls, compliance and resilience into digital workflows, ensuring auditability, supplier risk integration, and alignment to policies and ISQM requirements.

• Integrate sustainability and ESG into sourcing and supplier lifecycle processes.

• Lead operational tool/platform enablement including workflow modernisation, tool governance, and process design across regions.

• Produce strategic executive level communications.

• Drive change leadership and global adoption, ensuring readiness, communications, training and behaviour change across functions and geographies.

• Influence senior stakeholders across Technology, Risk, Legal, and Category teams to align decisions and accelerate enterprise wide adoption.

Skills and attributes for success

• Highly capable deploying AI platforms, eProcurement tools and spend…