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Manager - Procurement Transformation and AI
Function: Procurement Consulting
Role purpose
Lead complex procurement transformation programmes by combining Source-to-Pay domain expertise, consulting leadership and AI-enabled solution design to deliver measurable and sustainable client value.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Manager to lead procurement transformation initiatives across Source-to-Pay. The role combines procurement domain expertise, consulting delivery, digital transformation, and AI-enabled solution design to improve efficiency, compliance, user experience, and business value.
Key Responsibilities
Procurement Transformation
- Lead current-state assessments and design future-state processes across category management, sourcing, supplier management, contracting, purchasing, and invoice-to-pay.
- Develop transformation roadmaps, operating models, business cases, governance structures, implementation plans, and value realization frameworks.
- Facilitate workshops and translate business challenges into clear process, data, technology, and organizational requirements.
- Lead program management, including scope, plans, governance, RAID management, dependencies, resourcing, quality and executive reporting.
- AI and Digital Procurement
- Lead digital procurement implementations and transformation programs from assessment and design through deployment, hyper care and value realization
- Plan and facilitate design workshops; translate business requirements into future-state processes, operating models, controls, data requirements and technology designs.
- Identify and prioritize Generative AI, Agentic AI, analytics, and automation use cases across the procurement lifecycle.
- Design use cases for spend intelligence, sourcing and RFX support, contract intelligence, supplier risk, guided buying, intake management, and procure-to-pay automation.
- Partner with business, product, data, and technology teams to prototype, test, deploy, and scale AI-enabled procurement solutions.
- Support responsible AI adoption through appropriate controls, human oversight, data protection, performance monitoring, and change management.
- Client Delivery and Practice Development
- Prepare executive-ready recommendations, Steering Committee updates, and decision materials.
- Oversee workstreams covering S2P/S2C, supplier lifecycle and performance, contract management, guided buying, purchasing, invoicing, data migration, integrations, testing, training and change adoption.
- Support proposals, pursuits, effort estimation, thought leadership, and the development of reusable procurement accelerators.
- Coach consultants and senior consultants and promote consistent delivery quality.
- Support the hiring, staffing and deployment of consultants and senior consultants; coach team members and build a sustainable digital procurement talent pool.
- Drive cross-skilling and upskilling through learning plans, knowledge sessions, reusable assets, templates and implementation playbooks.
Qualifications and Experience
- 8-12 years of relevant experience in procurement consulting, Source-to-Pay transformation, digital procurement or procurement technology implementation.
- Strong functional knowledge across category management, sourcing, contracting, supplier management, purchasing, invoicing and procurement operating models.
- Experience leading multiple end-to-end procurement technology implementations or comparably complex transformation programs.
- Strong workshop facilitation, program management, problem-solving, commercial and executive communication skills.
- Hands-on exposure to one or more platforms such as Coupa, SAP Ariba, GEP, Zycus, Jaggaer, Ivalua, Oracle, Zip or similar solutions.
- Experience working with ERP integrations, data migration, testing, change management and global cross-functional teams.
- Practical exposure to AI, analytics, intelligent automation or digitally enabled procurement use cases is preferred.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Engineering, Finance, Technology or a related discipline. Relevant platform certifications are advantageous.
Core Capabilities
- S2P transformation
- AI use-case design
- Operating model design
- Digital procurement
- Program management
- Executive communication
- Change and adoption
Team leadership
Value realization
Key Success Measures
- High-quality transformation deliverables completed on schedule and within scope.
- Improved procurement efficiency, compliance, stakeholder experience, and decision quality.
- Successful adoption and measurable value from digital and AI-enabled solutions.
- Strong client satisfaction, team development, and contribution to practice growth.
What Success Looks Like
- The successful candidate will combine strong procurement domain expertise, consulting leadership, and practical AI adoption to deliver measurable client value, sustainable transformation, and scalable solutions.
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