Associate Director, Source to Contract Process & Platform Enablement

About the role

The AD, Source-to-Contract Process & Platform Enablement is responsible for leading and advancing Source-to-Contract (S2C) execution enablement, serving as a senior business lead for the processes, platforms, and controls that enable compliant, efficient, and scalable sourcing, contracting, and third-party risk management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior business lead for Source-to-Contract execution processes and enabling platforms, including sourcing events, supplier collaboration, award workflows, contract authoring, approvals, execution, amendments, and renewals.
• Drive process and platform alignment across sourcing and contracting to support seamless handoffs into downstream P2P execution.
• Lead the enablement roadmap and backlog for S2C processes and platforms, including enhancements, configuration changes, and defect remediation.
• Prioritize work based on business value, risk mitigation, compliance impact, and operational efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement across sourcing cycle times, contract turnaround, template usage, clause compliance, and user adoption.
• Lead business-side change and release readiness for S2C platforms, including impact assessment, testing coordination, UAT, and go-live preparation.
• Help ensure sourcing and contracting changes do not disrupt active sourcing events, contract execution, or downstream purchasing.
• Partner with IT and Operations on issue management, escalations, and post-deployment stabilization.
• Advance sourcing and contracting workflows that support required controls, approval routing, legal review checkpoints, and standardized contract language.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Compliance, and Risk to operationalize policy requirements and mitigate commercial and regulatory risk through execution.
• Enable effective supplier participation in sourcing and contracting workflows through clear processes, templates, and supporting guidance.
• Partner with Category Managers and Legal to improve usability and consistency while maintaining required safeguards.
• Define escalation paths, issue resolution processes, and continuous improvement loops in partnership with operations teams to reduce friction and improve service levels.
• Partner with Strategy, Governance & Excellence to operationalize sourcing and contracting standards within execution workflows.
• Partner with P2P Process & Platform Enablement to ensure clean downstream integration from contract to purchase.
• Partner with Analytics to ensure S2C execution data supports trusted KPIs, savings tracking, and contractual compliance insights.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of experience supporting and enabling Source-to-Contract processes and platforms in a business, COE, or product ownership role.
• Strong understanding of sourcing execution, contract lifecycle management, approvals, and supplier engagement.
• Hands-on experience leading requirements definition, UAT, enablement enhancements, and user training.
• 5+ years with Coupa Sourcing, Icertis and Process Unity platforms.
• Experience leading AI-enabled process improvement and digital innovation within procurement, sourcing, contracting, or adjacent enterprise workflows.
• Experience driving standardization of sourcing and contracting execution at scale.
• Experience partnering closely with Legal and Category Management teams.
• Familiarity with contract template governance, clause libraries, and compliance enablement.

Leadership Attributes

• Strong execution focus with the ability to balance speed, control, and risk.
• Strong cross-functional influencer and advisor who can drive alignment across Procurement, Legal, and Operations without direct authority.
• Clear communicator who translates business and legal requirements into executable processes and platform outcomes.
• Forward-looking leader who can evaluate and apply AI capabilities to simplify processes, improve decision support, and enhance user experience responsibly.