Digital Procurement Operations

About the role

This role supports the strategy, transformation, quality, and performance of the organization's procurement request lifecycle. This role sets the standard and is accountable for the accuracy, compliance, and efficiency of procurement operations end to end. Beyond day-to-day execution, this role is a key architect of where procurement operations is headed next — modernizing the PR-to-PO experience, building durable team depth, and advancing automation and AI-enabled workflows across the function.

Responsibilities

• Transforming the Future
  • Co-owns the evolution of the PR-to-PO operating model, identifying where processes need to change as the organization matures and driving agent, orchestration, or other systems initiatives tied to the broader ERP upgrade.
  • Bring a Day 1 lens to existing end-to-end workflows - challenging legacy assumptions and identifying where agents can complement orchestration rather than duplicate it.
  • Champions automation and AI-assisted approaches across sourcing triage and quality control, identifying high-volume rules-based tasks suited for AI-assisted or agentic handling and partnering with Tech to pilot and scale solutions.
  • Builds AI-assisted development ("vibe coding") as a team capability. Championing teamwide AI adoption and proficiency while holding oneself personally accountable for AI fluency.
  • Partners with adjacent functions (Sourcing, Contracting, Payments, FP&A, Accounting) to design what future-state intelligent buying looks like structurally.
• Procurement Operations (Buy Desk)
  • Owns the Purchase Requisition/PO change request Quality Control program and end-to-end Purchase Order lifecycle.
  • Sets the compliance and validation standards (SOX, contract review, intake accuracy, non-compliant spend escalation) the team operates within, and resolves escalations beyond team-level authority.