Lead, Supply Chain Digital Enablement

About the Role

Provides senior-level technical leadership and hands-on expertise for the digital enablement of Supply Chain, driving adoption and optimization of digital procurement platforms, including Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba, across the procure-to-pay (P2P) lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provides functional leadership, configuration expertise, and continuous-improvement support for digital procurement systems, including Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and Ariba, to enable efficient and compliant end-to-end P2P processes.
• Serves as a Supply Chain functional lead and platform subject-matter expert for procurement technologies, supporting solution design, system administration, master data integrity, user access, integrations, and platform governance.
• Partners with the Velocity S/4HANA transformation program to design, test, and deploy future-state Supply Chain processes using clean-core and fit-to-standard principles, while supporting business readiness and adoption.
• Identifies, designs, and implements process automation and digitization opportunities that reduce manual effort, strengthen compliance, improve the user experience, and embed preventive or detective controls into buying processes.
• Leads the evaluation and responsible application of Agentic AI within Supply Chain, including identifying use cases, defining human-in-the-loop controls, establishing guardrails, coordinating pilots, monitoring performance, and supporting scalable deployment.
• Designs and improves AI-enabled workflows and autonomous or semi-autonomous agents that can support activities such as intake, guided buying, supplier and contract information retrieval, exception triage, analytics, and workflow orchestration, subject to approved governance and security requirements.
• Partners with IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, Risk, Internal Controls, Data Governance, and business stakeholders to ensure AI and automation solutions comply with enterprise architecture, privacy, data protection, model-risk, records-management, and responsible-AI expectations.
• Develops Supply Chain analytics, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, adoption metrics, and process-performance models that support sourcing, spend management, compliance, and operational decision-making.
• Establishes and maintains procurement data-governance standards to improve data accuracy, consistency, ownership, lineage, quality, and appropriate use across systems, reporting, automation, and AI solutions.
• Bridges the gap between future-state P2P design and day-to-day execution by standardizing processes, resolving root causes, reducing rework, and supporting remediation of control or audit observations.
• Maintains digital enablement policies, procedures, standard work instructions, training materials, knowledge content, Supply Chain intranet content, and supplier-portal content within assigned areas.
• Partners with IT, Finance, internal stakeholders, and external vendors or contractors to gather requirements, define priorities, manage product backlogs, coordinate releases, conduct testing, and support organizational change management.
• Ensures digital procurement processes and configurations align with purchasing policies, delegated authorities, internal controls, and SOX requirements.
• Provides technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge transfer to employees, contractors, process owners, and system users without direct people-management accountability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, information systems, computer science, engineering, data science, or a related discipline required. Advanced degree in a relevant discipline preferred.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in supply chain, procurement, digital procurement enablement, enterprise systems, process automation, or a related field.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience administering, configuring, implementing, or supporting digital procurement platforms such as Coupa, SAP S/4HANA, and/or SAP Ariba.
• Strong knowledge of ERP and P2P system functionality, solution design, integration, testing, release management, adoption, and operational support.
• Demonstrated experience with procurement analytics, reporting, data governance, process design, controls, and continuous improvement.
• Experience supporting a large-scale ERP, digital, or operating-model transformation, preferably involving SAP S/4HANA.
• Practical experience evaluating, designing, piloting, implementing, or governing Agentic AI solutions, AI agents, copilots, or intelligent workflow automation in an enterprise environment.
• Experience translating business problems into AI or automation use cases, requirements, process designs, acceptance criteria, control requirements, and measurable outcomes.

Skills

• Experience with prompt design, agent instructions, tools or connectors, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow orchestration, model evaluation, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop exception handling preferred.
• Experience applying responsible-AI, cybersecurity, privacy, data-governance, and change-management principles to enterprise AI solutions preferred.
• Supply chain or procurement-specific AI experience strongly preferred.

Preferred Certifications

• Coupa and/or SAP certification (S/4HANA or Ariba)
• Recognized AI, generative AI, machine learning, data, automation, cloud, or responsible-AI certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, Scrum, or product-management certification
• Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) and/or APICS CPIM/CSCP certification
• Lean Six Sigma or business-process-management certification

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Paid training
• Benefits eligibility begins on your first day
• Transit subsidies
• Flexible work schedule, paid holidays and paid time off
• Access to discounts at fitness clubs and an on-site wellness center at our headquarters in Houston
• Professional growth and development programs including tuition reimbursement
• 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% and a company contribution of 3% regardless of your contribution

Posting Start Date: 09/16/2026

Posting End Date: 09/30/2026