Procurement Strategy, Transformation & Governance Leader

Sanderson; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Global exposure

Job summary

Sanderson in Dublin is seeking a Procurement Strategy, Transformation & Governance Leader to drive strategy execution, governance, and operational excellence across a global procurement organization. This senior role partners with the CPO and Leadership Team to ensure a clear operating model and disciplined delivery.

You will blend strategic thinking with hands-on execution, lead KPI frameworks, governance, analytics, and transformation programs, and act as a trusted partner to senior leaders

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Procurement or Supply Chain or related discipline.
• 8–10+ years in procurement transformation, strategy, governance or PMO leadership.
• Experience designing governance frameworks and operating models.
• Strong programme and change management capability.
• Proven track record leading analytics and performance improvement initiatives.
• Advanced stakeholder management and executive influencing skills.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Ability to simplify complex issues and communicate with senior leadership.
• Experience in large, global organisations.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving capability.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage a global procurement KPI framework.
• Lead executive reporting, dashboards and performance reviews.
• Analyse performance trends and identify root causes.
• Deliver actionable recommendations to improve performance.
• Ensure leadership visibility of procurement effectiveness and value delivery.
• Drive data driven decision making across the global procurement organisation.
• Partner with leadership to translate strategic priorities into executable plans.
• Establish and manage the procurement operating rhythm.
• Drive standardisation while addressing local requirements.
• Lead procurement transformation and improvement programmes.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Governance

PMO

Analytics

Executive influencing

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Leadership

Education

Degree in Procurement/Supply Chain

Tools

Excel

Analytics tools (BI)

Job description

Procurement Strategy, Transformation & Governance Leader

Dublin. Hybrid. Permanent.

This is a senior procurement leadership role responsible for driving strategy execution, governance, transformation, performance improvement and operational excellence across a global procurement organisation.

The role partners closely with the Chief Procurement Officer and Procurement Leadership Team to ensure procurement operates through a clear and effective operating model, robust governance framework, strong performance management and disciplined execution of strategic priorities.

This is not a traditional sourcing or category management position. The focus is on helping procurement leadership understand not only what is happening across the function, but why it is happening and what actions are required to improve performance, strengthen governance and accelerate delivery.

The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with strong execution capability and be comfortable operating at both Executive Leadership Team and operational level.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and manage a global procurement KPI framework.
• Lead executive reporting, dashboards and performance reviews.
• Analyse performance trends and identify root causes.
• Deliver actionable recommendations to improve performance.
• Ensure leadership visibility of procurement effectiveness and value delivery.
• Drive data driven decision making across the global procurement organisation.

Strategic Operations & Governance

• Partner with procurement leadership to translate strategic priorities into executable plans.
• Establish and manage the procurement operating rhythm.
• Coordinate cross functional and regional activities.
• Identify risks, dependencies and delivery gaps.
• Drive accountability for strategic actions and commitments.

Procurement Operating Model

• Own the ongoing development of the procurement operating model.
• Define and maintain governance frameworks, policies and standards.
• Establish process ownership and accountability.
• Identify and address capability, process and governance gaps.
• Drive standardisation while recognising local business requirements.
• Ensure procurement processes remain aligned to organisational strategy.
• Build and lead a high performing procurement analytics capability.
• Develop reporting, dashboard and business intelligence solutions.
• Improve forecasting and predictive insights.
• Create greater visibility of supplier, spend and operational performance.
• Turn complex data into clear executive level insights and recommendations.
• Lead procurement transformation and improvement programmes.
• Drive automation and reduction of manual reporting activities.
• Improve data quality, governance and reporting consistency.
• Establish governance for strategic transformation initiatives.
• Track milestones, risks, dependencies and benefits realisation.
• Deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and stakeholder outcomes.
• Own the end to end management of procurement leadership forums and executive reviews.
• Lead agenda development, content coordination and executive presentations.
• Drive actions through to completion.
• Support strategic organisational initiatives and special projects.
• Act as a trusted partner to the Chief Procurement Officer and Procurement Leadership Team.

Digital Procurement & Knowledge Management

• Lead procurement's digital enablement agenda.
• Drive adoption of technology, automation and workflow solutions.
• Oversee governance of procurement knowledge management platforms.
• Ensure critical procurement information remains current, accessible and well governed.
• Establish ownership and version control of key documentation and standards.

Key Stakeholders

• Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, IT, HR, Legal, Corporate Strategy Teams
• Strong procurement KPI performance.
• Improved data quality and reporting accuracy.
• Increased adoption of analytics and business intelligence.
• Successful delivery of transformation programmes.
• Greater automation and reduced manual reporting.
• Increased operating model maturity.
• Strong governance compliance.
• Delivery of strategic priorities and measurable business outcomes.

You will bring:

• Degree qualified in Procurement, Supply Chain, Business or a related discipline.
• 8 to 10+ years' experience in procurement transformation, strategy, governance, PMO, performance management or business transformation leadership roles.
• Experience designing governance frameworks and procurement operating models.
• Strong programme and change management capability.
• Proven track record of leading analytics and performance improvement initiatives.
• Advanced stakeholder management and executive influencing skills.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Ability to simplify complex issues and communicate effectively with senior leadership.
• Experience operating within large, complex, global organisations.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving capability.

Travel - Up to 25 to 30 per cent international travel