Senior Procurement Transformation Manager

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Own the procurement transformation portfolio, plan timelines, and dependencies.
• Establish governance forums, decision cadences, and escalating paths.
• Maintain visibility into risks, issues, and interdependence.
• Oversee governance, policy, and process standards for all Procurement processes from category strategy, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, risk management, purchase order management.
• Develop and execute change management strategies for new processes, policies, and tools in partnership with Learning & Development (if enterprise impact).
• Design communications, training, and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Measure adoption and adjust approaches to ensure sustainability.
• Partner with Procurement, Continuous Improvement and Finance to track benefits realization.
• Ensure consistent measurement and reporting of transformation outcomes.
• Protect value delivery by identifying risks to adoption or execution.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and improve procurement processes.
• Capture lessons learned and embed them into future initiatives.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement.
• Enable executives through clear, impactful storytelling within Procurement and beyond.
• Coordinate stakeholders across IT, Finance, Legal, Operations, and Procurement.
• Resolve delivery blockers and align priorities across functions.
• Ensure transformation efforts remain aligned to enterprise objectives.

Minimum Education And Experience

• Bachelor Degree and 7–10+ years in transformation/PMO, procurement transformation, operations excellence, and change leadership.
• Proven experience leading multi-workstream programs and driving measurable adoption outcomes.
• Working knowledge of procurement processes (S2C/S2P) and governance expectations.
• Strong project/program management discipline (planning, dependency management, RAID).
• Change management and communications capabilities, training and enablement design.
• Executive reporting and stakeholder influence experience in a matrixed environment.

Benefits

• Medical/Rx
• 401(k) with employer match after 1 year
• Critical illness, accident insurance
• Dental, vision
• Life insurance
• Optional group life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability protection
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid time off

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $128,000 - $192,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).

Company Information

• Perdue Farms is a fourth-generation, family-owned food and agricultural business deeply rooted in tradition yet with a forward-thinking mindset.
• We believe that success starts with our people, and our culture is built on a foundation of teamwork, integrity, and respect, where every voice matters and everyone is encouraged to contribute to our shared goals.
• We are dedicated to creating a supportive, inclusive environment where associates feel valued and inspired to make an impact, both within the company and in the communities we serve.

About the Role

• You will partner with key stakeholders, own program governance, project management rigor, and change enablement to drive sustained adoption of new procure-to-pay technologies and standardized ways of working.
• This role is ideal for a strategic, change-focused leader who excels at driving cross-functional alignment, execution discipline, and lasting transformation in a fast-paced enterprise environment.