Procurement COE Leader: Strategy, Digital & Analytics

HF Management Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

HF Management Services in New York seeks a Senior Manager - Head of Procurement Center of Excellence to lead governance, digital procurement, analytics, and supplier performance. You will shape standards, policies, and a data-driven, modern procurement function.

Reporting to Enterprise Procurement leadership, you will build capability roadmaps, establish spend analytics, and drive AI-enabled sourcing and automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the Procurement Center of Excellence strategy aligned with Enterprise Procurement and corporate objectives.
• Establish enterprise procurement governance, policies, operating standards, methodologies, templates, and best practices that promote consistency, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Develop enterprise procurement capability roadmaps supporting organizational maturity, scalability, and long-term value creation.
• Define procurement and vendor management performance measures, governance frameworks, maturity assessments, and operating metrics to continuously improve procurement effectiveness and supplier value realization.
• Lead enterprise procurement communications, change management, and capability development initiatives.
• Lead the enterprise digital procurement roadmap, partnering with IT and business stakeholders to advance procurement technologies and automation.
• Drive implementation and adoption of AI-enabled procurement capabilities, workflow automation, digital procurement platforms, and intelligent decision support.
• Partner with Procurement Operations Hub to optimize Source-to-Pay processes through automation, standardization, and digital enablement.
• Evaluate emerging procurement technologies, AI capabilities, and market innovations that improve procurement performance and stakeholder experience.
• Champion digital adoption across the Procurement organization through training, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Establish enterprise procurement analytics, reporting, and market intelligence capabilities supporting Category Management, Procurement Operations, and executive leadership.
• Lead development of spend analytics, savings reporting, supplier intelligence, executive dashboards, category insights, and procurement performance reporting.
• Utilize AI-enabled analytics, predictive insights, benchmarking, and market intelligence to improve procurement decision-making and enterprise planning.
• Establish enterprise data governance standards supporting procurement reporting accuracy, consistency, and transparency.
• Deliver executive reporting that measures procurement and vendor performance, value realization, compliance, and organizational maturity.
• Establish and maintain center-led vendor management standards, operating model, governance forums, policies, playbooks, and templates in partnership with Category Management, Procurement Operations Hub, Legal, Compliance, Risk, IT, and business owners.
• Lead the supplier/vendor segmentation framework and define differentiated management approaches based on spend, criticality, risk tier, strategic importance, and business impact.
• Develop vendor scorecard methodology, supplier performance KPIs, QBR cadence and templates, risk/performance governance, and issue escalation standards for key suppliers.
• Enable strategic vendor account plans, relationship governance, continuous improvement plans, supplier innovation forums, and value realization tracking for segmented suppliers.
• Partner with vendor leads, category leaders, and business stakeholders to monitor vendor performance, compliance, risk, relationship health, and supplier-delivered value.
• Design and maintain enterprise procurement methodologies supporting category management, strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract management, and Source-to-Pay operations.
• Develop standardized procurement

Job description

HF Management Services in New York seeks a Senior Manager - Head of Procurement Center of Excellence to lead governance, digital procurement, analytics, and supplier performance. You will shape standards, policies, and a data-driven, modern procurement function.

Reporting to Enterprise Procurement leadership, you will build capability roadmaps, establish spend analytics, and drive AI-enabled sourcing and automation.