Associate Director, Procurement, Consulting & Professional Services

About the role

The Associate Director, Consulting & Professional Services will serve as the strategic integrator across BMS's consulting and professional services ecosystem — encompassing consulting engagements, and broader professional services categories. This role sits at the intersection of Global Procurement and the professional services workforce, functioning as a critical connector across business leaders, HR, Finance, Legal, and Procurement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as procurement project lead and primary point of contact for assigned consulting specialties across Tier 2 and 3 services.
• Partner with project leaders to understand scope, business strategy, and intended outcomes.
• Draft negotiation strategy and areas of opportunity, align with Agile Sourcing team to ensure execution of strategy.
• Facilitate end-to-end governance by coordinating across Procurement, Finance, and LT (CEO-2) leadership.
• Develop comprehensive project summaries and supporting documentation to enable executive-level approvals and enterprise reporting.
• Proactively identify and escalate risks, bottlenecks, or misalignments within the governance process, recommending solutions that preserve both speed and compliance.
• Support the monthly Consulting Leadership Team (LT) report presented to the BMS Leadership Team, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and alignment with governance requirements.
• Develop and deliver clear, timely, and impactful communications to keep senior leaders and key stakeholders informed of project status, risks, decisions, and required actions.

Qualifications

• Minimum education of a B.S. in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement or equivalent is required.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of work experience in which five (5) years of experience is procurement is required.
• Internal stakeholder management, data/information management, category management, process redesign and continuous improvement expertise, project management and performance measurement skills.
• Deep expertise in negotiating Consulting / Professional Services Agreements.
• Procurement process knowledge, category management, contract management, financial analysis, market analysis, supplier analysis, supplier management, technology utilization and strategic planning.
• Strong influencing, project management and cross functional team leadership skills.
• Strong skillset in gaining marketplace intelligence and communicating the commercial impact of information back to internal decision makers.