Chief of Staff to the Chief Procurement Officer

About the role

The Chief of Staff to the CPO is a high-visibility leadership role that serves as a force multiplier for the Chief Procurement Officer and the global Procurement organization. Operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and organizational effectiveness, this leader will run the Office of the CPO, drive the function's strategic planning and operating cadence, and stand up and lead the Procurement Project Management Office (PMO).

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CPO to shape, articulate, and operationalize the multi-year Procurement strategy, ensuring alignment with Equinix’s corporate priorities and financial objectives.

• Lead the annual strategic planning process for the Procurement function, including goal setting, OKR/KPI development, and cascading objectives across the leadership team.

• Leverage data, benchmarking, and market intelligence to identify opportunities for value creation, cost savings, process improvement, and supplier optimization, and present actionable recommendations to the CPO.

• Procurement Project Management Office (PMO) Leadership Design, launch, and lead the Procurement PMO, establishing the charter, governance model, standards, and tooling for managing the function’s portfolio of projects and transformation initiatives.

• Own portfolio governance end-to-end: manage project intake, prioritization, and resource capacity planning; ensure the portfolio is aligned to strategic priorities and balanced across run-the-business and change-the-business work.

• Build and maintain portfolio-level visibility through executive dashboards, status reporting, and a disciplined operating rhythm of program reviews with clear escalation paths.

• Develop project management capability across the Procurement organization through training, coaching, playbooks, and communities of practice.

• Run the operating rhythm of the Procurement leadership team: design and manage the cadence of leadership meetings, annual planning, KPI governance, quarterly business reviews, offsites, and town halls — owning agendas, content, decisions, and follow-through on actions.

• Synthesize operational, financial, and organizational data into executive insights, identifying emerging risks, opportunities, and decisions requiring leadership attention.

• Manage the CPO’s engagement priorities, ensuring the CPO’s time is focused on the highest-value activities, and represent the CPO in meetings and decision forums as delegated.

• Liase with the Communications team to ensure alignment and CPO preparation for organizational announcements, allhands content, board and executive committee materials, and quarterly performance reviews with Finance and executive leadership.

• Track and drive closure of commitments and decisions made by the CPO and the leadership team, ensuring accountability and momentum across the organization.

• Act as a connector and honest broker between the CPO, Procurement leadership, and senior stakeholders across the enterprise — including Finance, Legal, Operations, IT, and regional leadership — ensuring alignment on priorities, expectations, and interdependencies.

• Support supplier-facing executive engagements as needed, including preparation for top-supplier executive reviews and strategic supplier programs.

• Lead special projects and resolve high-priority strategic issues that do not naturally fit within existing organizational structures.

• Work in partnership with the Procurement HRBP, support the CPO in driving organizational effectiveness — including org design, succession planning, engagement initiatives, and change management for major transformations.

• Model and foster a culture of transparency, accountability, continuous learning, and high performance; coach and mentor emerging leaders across the function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, supply chain, strategy, management consulting; with strong business operations experience — ideally within a large, global, matrixed organization

• Demonstrated success establishing or leading a PMO, transformation office, or large-scale program portfolio, with a track record of delivering complex cross-functional initiatives on time and on budget

• Strong command of project and portfolio management disciplines (governance, stage gates, resource planning, risk management, benefits realization) and modern PPM/collaboration tools

• Exceptional executive communication skills — able to distill complexity into crisp narratives, build compelling executive and board-level materials, and communicate credibly at all levels

• Strong analytical and financial acumen, with demonstrated ability to use data to drive decisions and to partner effectively with Finance on savings validation and budgeting

• Prior proven ability to influence without authority, build trust quickly, and navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• High degree of discretion, judgment, and integrity; comfortable handling confidential and sensitive matters