Procurement Director, Global Spend Management

What the day will look like

Lead the development of advanced sourcing strategies for your assigned category(ies), including long-range objectives, performance goals, and clear metrics.
Build and manage multi-year category roadmaps, opportunity pipelines, and performance dashboards that drive value, resilience, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Independently lead complex sourcing, RFP, and negotiation efforts, applying strong commercial judgment while balancing value, risk, stakeholder priorities, and long-term category strategy.
Act as a primary procurement partner to senior business and functional leaders (e.g., Finance, Legal, Privacy, Operations, and category-specific stakeholders)—translating business needs into sourcing approaches that enable outcomes.
Manage overall supplier relationships for assigned categories, aligning supplier goals and performance with business objectives and holding suppliers accountable for results.
Champion supplier diversity objectives, seeking opportunities to engage diverse suppliers directly or via prime suppliers’ subcontracting and tiered-sourcing commitments.
Stay closely engaged in periodic supplier reviews to identify opportunities, address issues early, verify performance against contractual commitments, and proactively plan renewals, extensions, or transitions.
Draft and negotiate business and commercial contract language of above-average complexity in collaboration with legal and functional partners.
Support internal clients in building alignment and consensus on recommendations, then drive timely execution, communication, and implementation/transition activities.
Assess financial, operational, and risk implications of sourcing options and make sound trade-off decisions that clearly connect to business outcomes.
Leverage leading-edge tools and technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve speed, insight, and quality of procurement work.
Throughout, you will demonstrate

Curiosity: deeply understanding markets, suppliers, and stakeholder needs; continuously scanning for new ideas and better ways of working.
Action orientation: moving initiatives forward with urgency and discipline, removing barriers, and delivering on commitments.
Accountability: owning category results, supplier performance, and stakeholder satisfaction end-to-end.
Flexibility and priority management: adapting quickly to changing business needs, confidently re-prioritizing work and resources, and managing time and workload to consistently deliver on the most critical outcomes first.
Continuous improvement: proactively identifying and implementing process, cost, and value enhancements across categories and ways of working.
Effective stakeholder partnering: building trusted relationships, challenging constructively, and co-creating solutions that balance short-term needs and long-term strategy.