Sr Mgr. Strategic Sourcing- Data & Analytics and Procurement Systems

Overview

Lead the team responsible for procurement data, reporting, systems enablement, process improvement, and special projects across the Sourcing & Procurement organization, and establish a reliable savings governance process.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop the Data & Analytics and Procurement Systems team, including the Senior Systems Analyst and Senior Data & Analytics Analyst.
• Set priorities, establish clear ownership, manage capacity, and ensure work is delivered accurately and on time across reporting, systems, analytics, and special projects.
• Create a service-oriented operating model with defined intake, prioritization, delivery, communication, quality, and escalation practices.
• Build strong relationships with Procurement leadership, Category Managers, Finance, Accounts Payable, Technology, and other stakeholders to understand needs and deliver practical solutions.
• Develop the team's capabilities in procurement operations, data analysis, systems management, project delivery, process improvement, and stakeholder communication.
• Ensure procurement systems support the category management model, intake processes, sourcing activities, contract and renewal visibility, savings tracking, and operational reporting needs.
• Partner with system owners and Technology to define requirements, evaluate solutions, manage testing and UAT, and implement changes with appropriate controls and adoption support.
• Establish system governance practices that promote data quality, clear ownership, consistent configuration, controlled changes, and reliable integrations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, digitize, and automate manual procurement activities and prioritize improvements based on value, feasibility, risk, and user impact.
• Oversee the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Procurement dashboards, scorecards, KPI definitions, and executive reporting packages.
• Ensure leadership and Category Managers have timely, accurate, and actionable insight into spend, sourcing activity, savings, cycle time, adoption, workload, risk, supplier performance, and other measures of Procurement performance.
• Establish data processes and governance that enable consistent collection, validation, reconciliation, and consumption of procurement data across systems and functions.
• Translate analysis into clear recommendations that support prioritization, resource allocation, category strategy, process improvement, and leadership decision-making.
• Partner with Finance, Accounts Payable, Technology, and other functions to obtain, reconcile, and improve access to relevant data sources.
• Design and implement a standardized process for calculating, documenting, tracking, validating, and reporting Procurement savings and cost avoidance.
• Partner with Category Managers to review savings methodologies, assumptions, baselines, timing, addressable spend, and supporting documentation for sourcing and procurement initiatives.
• Partner with Finance to distinguish and reconcile P&L savings from contractual savings, cost avoidance, and other forms of value creation and to establish an appropriate validation and sign-off process.
• Maintain a centralized savings tracker and reporting process that shows pipeline, estimated value, validated value, realized value, timing, risks, and variances against target.
• Provide regular savings and value reporting to Procurement leadership and support reviews with Finance and other senior stakeholders.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in savings reporting and drive corrective action to improve credibility, transparency, and auditability.
• Lead and support special projects across Procurement Operations, including initiatives related to compliance, Accounts Payable, procurement controls, policy implementation, process redesign, system changes, and operational transformation.
• Develop project charters, plans, milestones, risks, decisions, communications, and success measures for cross-functional initiatives.
• Partner with Accounts Payable on invoice, vendor, payment, and procure-to-pay projects that improve accuracy, timeliness, controls, and the stakeholder experience.
• Support compliance monitoring and reporting, including identifying process deviations, control gaps, unauthorized activity, missing approvals, and other risks requiring management attention.
• Use root-cause analysis, process mapping, stakeholder feedback, and performance data to improve Procurement processes and reduce cycle time, rework, and manual effort.
• Ensure changes are documented, communicated, adopted, and measured after implementation.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Experience in Procurement, Procurement Operations, Sourcing, Finance, Business Intelligence, Procurement Systems, or a related function, with experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or leading analysts or operations professionals.
• Demonstrated experience developing procurement reporting, KPI frameworks, dashboards, data processes, or operational performance management routines.
• Experience working with Finance to calculate, validate, reconcile, and report savings, cost avoidance, or other business value metrics.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, including sourcing, contracting, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoicing, Accounts Payable, and savings management.
• Strong project management, process improvement, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex operational, financial, systems, and data issues into clear decisions and practical actions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience with Power BI, SQL, workflow tools, spend analytics tools, ERP systems, or related technologies.

Nice to have

• Experience leading Procurement Operations, Procurement Center of Excellence, or procurement transformation teams in a global organization.
• Experience with procurement workflow orchestration, spend analytics, ERP, AP automation, contract lifecycle management, or supplier management platforms.
• Experience implementing savings governance, P&L savings validation, cost avoidance tracking, or Finance partnership models.
• Experience supporting compliance, SOX, procurement controls, audit remediation, or policy implementation initiatives.