Gap Inc. Sr Director - Procurement, Marketing & Growth

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Procurement, the Sr. Director of Procurement - Marketing and Growth Categories is a senior leadership role tasked with advancing the NextGen Procurement transformation while helping fuel enterprise growth. This leader operates at the intersection of marketing, finance, technology, operations and external partners - shaping how marketing investments translate into measurable business outcomes.

As a strategic leader with a "perform while transform" mandate, you will drive financial and operational impact by influencing senior stakeholders, architecting future-ready solutions, and building a high-performing team that consistently executes with excellence. Success in this role requires moving beyond traditional sourcing to act as a trusted advisor to the business partner and leadership - bringing commercial rigor, market intelligence, and innovation to fuel growth.

In close partnership with brand and functional leadership, you will lead a portfolio of customer-centric spend categories critical to Gap Inc.'s growth, including digital marketing, omni-channel media, asset creative and production, talent, PR, and emerging growth channels. This role requires balancing top-line growth and margin expansion. You will need to gain buy-in and leverage scale across four distinct brands while aligning to their unique requirements. By driving functional excellence through deep category management, you will also elevate how marketing investments translate into measurable value - maximizing ROI, improving transparency, and strengthening overall spend effectiveness through leveraging P/L and optimizing the budgets. Forging strong partnerships is critical - both internally (Marketing Shared Services, Brand CMOs, Finance, Tech, Legal) and externally (agencies, platforms, and emerging partners). You will shape and govern a high-performing agency ecosystem that aligns incentives, drives accountability, and delivers measurable impact.

Who you are

You are a strategic, growth-oriented leader with a strong sense of ownership in the outcomes and a deep understanding of how marketing drives business performance. You bring curiosity, creativity, and commercial rigor to navigate complexity and influence at the most senior levels of the organization.

• You are creative, self-motivated, and can navigate a large matrix organization with a strong cultural foundation. You are equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy and driving hands-on execution.
• You build trust quickly, challenge constructively, and lead through positive influence in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• You also have:
• 12+ years of experience across marketing procurement and/or agency / consulting, with a strong track record of impact in senior leadership roles.
• Deep expertise across marketing categories, including omni-channel media, creative and production, influencers, talent, martech, and emerging channels. Experience in licensing and/or entertainment is a plus.
• Strong commercial understanding of marketing effectiveness, including ROI, attribution, media performance, and customer economics.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence senior marketing and business leaders within a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect category strategies to enterprise P&L outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in designing and managing agency ecosystems and supplier partnerships that drive performance and innovation, especially with Ai-powered capabilities.
• Apparel / Retail industry experience is preferred.
• Experience leading transformation - advancing category management, enabling new capabilities, and defining "what good looks like" in evolving environments.
• Inspirational leader with a focus on the How as much as the What.
• Proven track record of building and developing high-performing teams, developing long-term capabilities in others, and helping to unleash talent's full potential.
• Advanced collaboration, communication, and executive presence; able to influence and engage cross-functionally.