Procurement Lead

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The Procurement Lead develops and executes strategic sourcing and category management strategies that deliver value, optimize spend, and strengthen supplier performance across the organization. The role shapes high-impact outsourcing strategies and partners with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges, design effective sourcing and commercial approaches, and build supplier relationships that deliver measurable, sustainable value.

Success in this fast-paced, evolving environment requires strategic thinking, commercial acumen, analytical rigor, and a strong executive presence. The Procurement Lead must confidently articulate complex business cases, influence senior leaders, and translate complex information into clear recommendations and decisions.

The Procurement Lead operates across business strategy, operations, finance, risk, technology, and the supplier marketplace, building trusted partnerships and influencing across the enterprise. The role requires curiosity, confidence, and collaboration to challenge assumptions, navigate ambiguity, bring diverse perspectives together, and drive alignment around the best path forward.

Key Responsibilities

Lead complex, business-critical outsourcing and strategic sourcing initiatives from initial opportunity assessment through recommendation, negotiation, contracting, and value realization.

Develop multi-year category and sourcing strategies using spend and demand analysis, market intelligence, supplier benchmarking, competitive assessments, and cost modeling.

Design and lead end-to-end RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, including strategy development, supplier evaluation, negotiation planning, award recommendations, and contracting approaches.

Partner with, advise, and influence senior and executive leadership by applying strategic thinking, analytical rigor, and commercial judgment to constructively challenge assumptions, articulate compelling business cases, and translate complex business needs into clear recommendations and effective sourcing, supplier, and commercial strategies.

Build fact-based business cases and scenario analyses that bring together financial, operational, supplier, and market insights, enabling leaders to evaluate trade-offs and make informed decisions.

Shape outsourcing and managed-services commercial models, including FTE-based, fixed-fee, transaction-based, productivity, and outcome-oriented structures, to align supplier economics with business outcomes.

Draft, negotiate, and execute contracts and amendments, partnering with Finance, Legal, Risk, Operations, Technology, and other stakeholders to establish sound commercial terms, implementation and transition plans, governance, controls, and risk mitigation.

Evaluate and manage strategic suppliers based on performance, capabilities, financial health, risk, innovation, and long-term fit; establish governance and performance mechanisms that support accountability and continuous improvement.

Advance supplier diversity, sustainability, responsible sourcing, and supplier code-of-conduct expectations within category and supplier strategies, as appropriate.

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, supplier management, contracting, or a related field.

3+ years experience leading end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, and negotiations.

Experience drafting, negotiating and executing complex contracts and amendments in partnership with Legal, Finance, Risk and business stakeholders.