VP, Enterprise Procurement

About the role

The Vice President, Enterprise Procurement is responsible for leading and executing a unified procurement strategy across all business units at Premier. This role ensures alignment of sourcing, supplier management, and procurement operations with enterprise priorities, driving cost optimization, risk mitigation, and value creation. This role operates as an enterprise integrator, partnering across all business segments to standardize procurement practices and maximize Premier’s scale and supplier relationships. This role will be responsible for driving measurable value creation (cost savings, efficiency, risk mitigation).

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Procurement Strategy & Alignment – 30%
  Lead enterprise procurement strategy across all business units
  Align sourcing priorities with business and financial goals
  Drive enterprise spend visibility and optimization

• Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management – 25%
  Lead enterprise sourcing and contracting processes
  Manage supplier relationships and performance
  Execute high-value negotiations

• Governance, Risk & Compliance – 20%
  Establish procurement policies and controls
  Ensure regulatory and contractual compliance
  Lead supplier risk management

• Operations & Digital Enablement – 15%
  Implement procurement tools and systems
  Drive process standardization and efficiency
  Develop analytics and reporting capabilities

• Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement – 10%
  Partner with executive and business unit leaders
  Lead procurement organization
  Influence of enterprise decision-making

Requirements

• Work Experience: Years of Applicable Experience - 12 or more years

• Education: Bachelors (Required)

• Preferred Qualifications: Skills

Qualifications

• Uncompromised commitment to operate in an ethical and compliant manner

• Ability to build relationships to partner with the business and work with various levels of internal and external constituencies, such as top leaders and key external partners

• Strong financial and business acumen

• Superior communication skills, including verbal, oral and through presentations

• Results and continuous improvement-oriented; ability to anticipate and plan, to drive policy and process initiatives and lead changes with a strategic global mindset

• High quality threshold with ability to understand details and formalize executive-level summarization

• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and pragmatic approach to solutioning and collaborative resolution; strong follow-through

• Adept at leveraging technology and analytics to improve internal audit effectiveness

• Able to work in a challenging environment with multiple, changing, and competing priorities

• Strong team orientation, and ability to fit in with Premier’s culture

Additional Job Requirements

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time

• Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines

• Attention to detail

• Operate computer programs and software

• Communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats

Pay

$205,000 - $380,000

Schedule

Full-time