Procurement Digital and AI Lead

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to pull together business cases along with a project team for key procurement technology such as Supplier Information Management, Risk Management, Purchase to Pay, etc.
• Provide structured input and recommendations to leadership on proposed technology implementations by providing solution options, enabling informed decision-making.
• Provide input to the multiyear procurement technology roadmap.
• Lay out end-to-end project plans for digital and AI procurement initiatives, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria, ensuring clarity on who owns what and by when.
• Define project roles and responsibilities, ensure resources are trained and available, and remove delivery blockers to keep initiatives on track.
• Plan and manage deployment of procurement-specific Copilot use cases, ensuring tasks, owners, deadlines, and adoption metrics (time saved, usage, quality) are clearly defined and tracked.
• Execute projects rigorously against the agreed plan, escalating issues early, adjusting timelines or scope as needed, and ensuring projects are completed successfully and handed over with clear ownership.
• Work closely with subject-matter experts and cross-functional teams to ensure that solutions are implemented consistently and that ownership for post-go-live processes is clearly assigned.
• Partner with IT, Finance, Risk/E&C, Supply Chain, Legal and other key stakeholders, to ensure fit-to-standard designs are delivered on time and aligned with enterprise architecture and controls.
• Cook up and drive contract enrichment and standardization initiatives to achieve a robust single repository source of truth, managing execution across systems, data owners, and stakeholders.
• Ability to travel up to 5%.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business or equivalent level of relevant experience. MS/MBA preferred
• Certifications/Licensing: Lean Six Sigma or equivalent process related methodology preferred, Project Management certification (PMP, CAPM, etc) preferred, Change Management experience preferred
• Years and Type of Experience: 8+ years of procurement / supply chain experience with strong exposure to cutting edge source-to-pay processes and technologies. Demonstrated experience driving digital transformation, adoption, analytics and/or automation in an enterprise environment.
• Key Required Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities: Strong program/project leadership with complex interdependencies; ability to prioritize, anticipate and mitigate risks. Procurement platform experience (S2C and/or P2P), analytics/reporting, and workflow design. AI enablement capability: identify and deploy Copilot use cases, define success metrics, and develop defensible business cases for AI agents/automation. High interpersonal and communication skills; stakeholder management; facilitation and executive-ready storytelling. Ability to write SOPs/policies and design governance mechanisms that sustain adoption and compliance. Ability to summarize complex data; strong written and verbal English.