Strategic Procurement Agility Lead

owensminor; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Owens & Minor is seeking a Procurement Agility Consultant to enable procurement excellence across indirect spend, accelerate sourcing initiatives, and drive process improvements.

You will partner with Category Managers, Procurement Leadership, and COE to improve governance, reporting, and project execution, while guiding multiple workstreams and ensuring compliance with procurement policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multiple procurement initiatives simultaneously across indirect spend categories.
• Establish and maintain project plans, milestone tracking, risk logs, action registers, and communication routines for procurement initiatives.
• Partner with Category Managers and stakeholders to help sourcing projects remain on schedule and aligned to governance requirements.
• Facilitate project reviews, status updates, leadership reporting, and issue-resolution activities.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and barriers; develop mitigation plans to support timely execution.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve procurement efficiency, effectiveness, cycle time, and stakeholder experience.
• Standardize procurement processes, templates, workflows, governance practices, and operating rhythms across the indirect procurement organization.
• Collaborate with Procurement Operations and COE teams to streamline sourcing, intake, contracting, and reporting activities.
• Monitor procurement cycle times and identify opportunities to reduce administrative burden and improve speed-to-value.
• Support deployment of procurement technology, automation, workflow improvements, and digital transformation efforts.
• Maintain the indirect procurement project portfolio, sourcing pipeline, savings tracking routines, and leadership visibility tools.

Job description

Owens & Minor is seeking a Procurement Agility Consultant to enable procurement excellence across indirect spend, accelerate sourcing initiatives, and drive process improvements.

You will partner with Category Managers, Procurement Leadership, and COE to improve governance, reporting, and project execution, while guiding multiple workstreams and ensuring compliance with procurement policies.