Procurement Manager

Overview

Lead the operational team for purchase order administration, supplier onboarding and offboarding, and Oracle supplier profile maintenance across U.S. and India operations. This is an operational people-leadership role, not a category management, strategic sourcing, or contract-administration role.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports supporting PO administration, supplier onboarding and offboarding, and Oracle supplier profile maintenance.
• Establish individual objectives, service expectations, quality standards, development plans, and measurable accountability for results.
• Allocate workloads, monitor capacity and coverage, conduct regular one-on-ones, and address execution or capability gaps.
• Build cross-training and succession coverage for critical PO and supplier processes.
• Oversee end-to-end PO administration, including requisition validation, PO creation, dispatch, change orders, issue resolution, receipt coordination, and closure.
• Ensure POs contain accurate supplier, entity, currency, payment term, accounting, tax, line-item, and supporting-document information before release.
• Monitor PO fulfillment and coordinate with requestors, suppliers, Sourcing, Accounts Payable, and Finance to resolve missing receipts, invoice mismatches, exhausted balances, and blocked invoices.
• Maintain controls for non-PO spend, emergency purchases, one-time suppliers, blanket POs, and contract renewals.
• Coordinate timely PO amendments while preserving approval evidence and audit history.
• Lead periodic PO close reviews to identify and close completed, expired, inactive, or duplicate POs.
• Lead supplier onboarding from validated intake through activation, including required forms, tax and banking documentation, approvals, and compliance checkpoints.
• Confirm supplier onboarding requests are complete and approved before Oracle supplier-profile creation or activation.
• Support controls for supplier tax classification and U.S. information-reporting requirements, including supplier tax documentation used in 1099 reporting.
• Oversee supplier offboarding, including review of open POs and invoices, closure of remaining commitments, and deactivation of purchasing use.
• Prevent duplicate or fragmented supplier records through standardized search, matching, and documentation requirements.
• Own operational governance for Oracle supplier-profile creation, maintenance, activation, inactivation, and user support in line with segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Ensure supplier master data is accurate and complete, and monitor duplicate records, incomplete profiles, and expired documentation.
• Define and manage service-level targets for PO creation, supplier onboarding and offboarding, profile updates, issue resolution, and PO closure.
• Maintain dashboards and weekly operating reviews covering queue volume, cycle time, aging, first-pass accuracy, rework, and control compliance.
• Analyze recurring defects and bottlenecks, identify root causes, and verify that corrective actions reduce cycle time, rework, and control failures.
• Maintain current SOPs, process maps, RACIs, control narratives, and job aids for PO and supplier operations.
• Develop and deliver training for Procurement team members, requestors, approvers, and business stakeholders.
• Monitor P-Card transaction compliance, aging items, and missing documentation, and drive corrective actions.

What you'll need

• Undergraduate degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, Business, Operations, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Approximately 7–10 years of experience in procurement operations, procure-to-pay, purchasing operations, supplier master data, Accounts Payable operations, or a related function.
• Working knowledge of U.S. and India tax requirements relevant to procurement, supplier onboarding, invoicing, and supplier master-data operations.
• Experience supporting U.S. 1099 reporting processes, including supplier tax-document collection, supplier data validation, and coordination with Tax and Accounts Payable.
• Experience managing or supporting P-Card programs, including transaction controls, cardholder support, and compliance monitoring.
• Experience managing catalog purchasing and other guided-buying channels, including operational support and transaction troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders and Accounts Payable to resolve PO, invoice, and receipt mismatches and other procure-to-pay exceptions.
• Demonstrated experience leading direct reports, including goal setting, coaching, performance feedback, workload management, capacity planning, and employee development.
• Hands-on leadership experience with end-to-end PO administration, including requisition validation, PO creation, changes, receipt and invoice issue resolution, and PO closure.
• Demonstrated experience leading supplier onboarding and offboarding processes, including documentation, approvals, compliance checkpoints, activation, inactivation, and exception handling.
• Demonstrated experience administering Oracle supplier profiles or comparable ERP supplier-master records, including data quality, duplicate prevention, profile updates, controls, and user support.
• Experience defining and managing operational service levels, transaction queues, aging, cycle-time reporting, first-pass accuracy, rework, backlog, and close-performance metrics.
• Working knowledge of procure-to-pay controls, segregation of duties, supplier master-data governance, three-way match concepts, and audit evidence requirements.
• Experience collaborating with Finance, Accounts Payable, Tax, Legal, IT, InfoSec, Compliance, Sourcing, Contracts, and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with Oracle/P2P, ServiceNow or comparable intake tools, SharePoint, Teams, and reporting or dashboard tools.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Ability to operate independently during U.S. business hours.
• Team is part of the Finance division and supports a U.S.-based procurement team.