Strategic Procurement Director

Smartsuite; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitolis is seeking a Procurement Director to oversee procurement strategy, supplier onboarding and governance across the contracting lifecycle. You will lead category plans, manage supplier risk, and report performance and savings to leadership, while coordinating with risk, legal, finance and IT teams.

The role emphasizes measurable impact on spend, compliance and renewal decisions, with a unified vendor profile and auditable trails to support governance and SOX controls.

Responsibilities

• Set procurement strategy, policy and category plans
• Govern supplier onboarding, compliance documentation and risk tiers
• Oversee sourcing events, negotiations and contract awards
• Review supplier risk profiles to guide sourcing, renewals and selection
• Monitor supplier performance and spend
• Report supplier risk exposure, compliance gaps and savings to leadership
• Category plans tied to live spend
• Category plans sit beside spend by vendor, category and budget owner, so the plan you set in January is measured against what the business actually bought. Variances show up on the dashboard, not in the year-end review.
• Procurement Management suite
• Risk tiers set at onboarding, revisited on schedule
• Every supplier is tiered at intake by criticality, data access, geography and inherent risk, and the tier decides the depth of due diligence and the review cycle. Compliance documentation is requested automatically and its expiry tracked against the record.
• Third-Party Risk Management suite
• Performance scorecards that decide renewals
• Quality, delivery, cost, responsiveness and compliance metrics accrue to each supplier's record alongside its risk rating, so a renewal or re-selection decision starts from the scorecard. Underperformers are visible long before the contract comes up.
• Procurement Management suite
• Work in step with risk, legal, finance and supply chain
• Supplier file shared with third-party risk
• Procurement, Risk, Security, Legal and Finance read the same vendor profile: contracts, assessments, findings, performance history and remediation progress in one view.
• The Third-Party Risk Manager's findings reach you without a forwarded spreadsheet, and yours reach them.
• Third-Party Risk Management suite
• Procurement status open to finance, legal and IT
• Finance, Legal, IT and Operations see procurement status live: which requests are in sourcing, which contracts await legal review, which renewals the CISO must sign off.
• Hand-offs stop depending on who remembered to send the email.
• Procurement Management suite
• Supplier risk rolled into the enterprise picture
• Supplier compliance gaps and exceptions link to the obligations in each contract, so when the Supply Chain Director raises a continuity concern or the CISO raises a security finding, it sits against the vendor and the agreement it affects.
• Third-Party Risk Management suite
• Give the CFO and COO exposure without the assembly
• Savings and cycle times beside the risk numbers
• Spend category dashboards show savings against plan, cycle times and spend by vendor and business unit, in the same place as supplier risk ratings. The CFO gets the commercial result and the exposure in one view, not two decks.
• Procurement Management suite
• An audit trail on every award and approval
• Reviews, approvals and communications on each sourcing event are kept as a complete history, so an internal auditor or a public procurement challenge can be answered with the record rather than reconstruction from inboxes.
• Procurement Management suite
• Sourcing policy enforced, not just published
• Approved sourcing processes and spend controls are built into the workflow: a request cannot skip the evaluation, the threshold or the signature the policy requires. Exceptions are recorded as exceptions, which is what SOX testers and the FAR expect to see.
• Procurement Management suite
• Supplier governance.
• Monitors onboarding status, compliance documentation, risk tiers and performance metrics across the supplier base.
• Sourcing.
• Runs sourcing events and supplier selection with scoring and approvals.
• Contracts.
• Tracks contracts, renewals and obligations with reminders and clause flags.
• Spend.
• Analyzes spend by vendor, category and budget owner.
• Reporting.
• Provides leadership dashboards of supplier risk exposure, compliance gaps and remediation progress.

Job description

Capitolis is seeking a Procurement Director to oversee procurement strategy, supplier onboarding and governance across the contracting lifecycle. You will lead category plans, manage supplier risk, and report performance and savings to leadership, while coordinating with risk, legal, finance and IT teams.

The role emphasizes measurable impact on spend, compliance and renewal decisions, with a unified vendor profile and auditable trails to support governance and SOX controls.