Senior AI Procurement Domain SME – Remote

NTT DATA, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks an AI Procurement Domain SME (Remote, US) to lead client engagements from diagnostic to deployment and adoption. You will engage CPOs and leaders across strategic sourcing, supplier management, procurement operations, finance, and legal to translate transformation priorities into AI-native solutions with measurable ROI.

The role requires deep procurement expertise, ERP experience (SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua, Jaggaer, GEP, Zycus), and the ability to define processes,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of procurement consulting, operations, transformation, technology-enabled change, or relevant industry experience.
• Deep expertise in at least three areas: Strategic Sourcing; Category Management; Spend Analytics; Supplier Relationship and Performance Management; Contract Lifecycle Management; Procurement Operations / P2P; Tail Spend; Supplier Risk; Procurement Analytics and Value Tracking.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and products industries, including Industrial, Chemicals, Materials, CPG, High Tech, or Automotive sectors.
• Experience with enterprise procurement and ERP platforms such as SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua, Jaggaer, GEP, Zycus, or related solutions.
• Strong understanding of how AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI can be applied to procurement decisions, knowledge work, and operational workflows.
• Experience building outcome-based business cases and tracking savings, compliance, cash, productivity, and realized value.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate strategy workshops, and communicate with both business and technology teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, proposal development, and structured problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage CPOs and leaders across strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management, procurement operations, finance, legal, and supply chain to understand transformation priorities.
• Lead discovery and value workshops; translate business needs into AI Native solutions with clear outcomes, value hypotheses, scope, and ROI.
• Develop solution narratives, business cases, POVs, proposals, demo storylines, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations.
• Demonstrate how GenAI and Agentic AI can improve spend visibility, savings realization, sourcing cycle time, supplier performance, compliance, user experience, and procurement productivity.
• Assess process maturity, data readiness, technology landscape, controls, and implementation feasibility to guide opportunity qualification and solution scope.
• Serve as the lead procurement domain SME during client engagements, from diagnostic and design through deployment and adoption.
• Define business requirements, process designs, category and sourcing rules, approval logic, exception handling, controls, and success criteria.
• Validate AI agents, workflows, domain models, ontologies and automation designs against real-world procurement operations and policy requirements.
• Partner with procurement, finance, IT, legal, risk, and business stakeholders to drive adoption, change management, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish KPI baselines and track realized value against the approved business case, including hard savings, cost avoidance, compliance, cycle time, and productivity.

Skills

Executive presence

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Proposal development

Education

CPSM

CIPS

ISM

Lean Six Sigma

Tools

SAP

SAP Ariba

Coupa

Oracle

Ivalua

Jaggaer

GEP

Zycus

Job description

NTT DATA seeks an AI Procurement Domain SME (Remote, US) to lead client engagements from diagnostic to deployment and adoption. You will engage CPOs and leaders across strategic sourcing, supplier management, procurement operations, finance, and legal to translate transformation priorities into AI-native solutions with measurable ROI.

The role requires deep procurement expertise, ERP experience (SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua, Jaggaer, GEP, Zycus), and the ability to define processes,