Senior Project Manager- Procurement transformation

Description
Your mission
Program Governance & Delivery Leadership
- Establish and operate the program governance framework, decision rights, escalation paths and meeting cadence.
- Own the integrated program plan across supplier selection, discovery, pilot, rollout and transition to operations.
- Drive delivery discipline across milestones, dependencies, actions, decisions and phase-gate approvals.
- Challenge delays, unclear ownership and incomplete inputs, and escalate material issues with clear recommendations.
Business, IT & External Collaboration
- Act as the central coordination point between Purchasing, business process owners, D&IT teams and external partners.
- Facilitate workshops and governance forums that convert business priorities into executable plans and decisions.
- Build effective relationships across global, multicultural and matrix teams, influencing without direct authority.
- Communicate complex business and technology topics clearly to operational and executive audiences.
Vendor & Partner Management
- Coordinate supplier evaluation, demonstrations, clarifications, onboarding and delivery governance.
- Track vendor commitments, contractual deliverables, assumptions, risks and corrective actions.
- Maintain vendor scorecards and ensure timely acceptance or remediation of deliverables.
- Promote transparent, outcome-focused collaboration with AI providers, integrators and consulting partners.
Program Controls & Executive Reporting
- Maintain the program charter, integrated plan, RAID register, action tracker, decision log, dependency tracker and change register.
- Prepare concise weekly status reports, executive dashboards and monthly steering committee packs.
- Provide a clear view of progress, critical path, budget, forecast, risks, decisions required and vendor performance.
- Ensure program records are complete, current, auditable and available through a controlled repository.
Risk, Financial & Benefits Management
- Proactively manage business, data, integration, security, AI, vendor, adoption and rollout risks.
- Track budget, forecast, commitments and variances with Finance and Procurement.
- Establish benefit baselines and monitor productivity, contract compliance, inventory reuse, working capital and adoption.
- Coordinate mitigation and recovery plans when delivery or value targets are at risk
Change, Readiness & Adoption
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness and deployment planning.
- Track acceptance testing, readiness criteria, open defects and go-live decisions.
- Coordinate hypercare governance, transition to support and lessons learned.
- Promote business ownership and sustained adoption throughout the lifecycle
Core PMO Deliverables
- Project charter, governance framework, stakeholder map, communication plan and escalation model.
- Integrated master plan, milestone plan, resource view, critical path and dependency tracker.
- RAID register, action tracker, decision log, change register and vendor deliverables tracker.
- Weekly program status, monthly steering pack, executive dashboard, budget forecast, risk heat map and benefits dashboard.
- Phase-gate packs, readiness assessments, deployment reviews, hypercare governance and closure reports.)
Your profile
- 12+ years of experience in project management, PMO leadership or enterprise transformation, with evidence of leading complex cross-functional business and technology programs. in PMO, Project Management, Business Transformation, Digital Transformation or Process Improvement.
- Strong experience in executive governance, integrated planning, vendor management, financial tracking, risk management and change delivery.
- Experience working with global stakeholders and multiple external delivery partners in a matrix environment.
- Knowledge of Procurement, Source-to-Pay, Supply Chain, Manufacturing or Industrial operations is highly desirable.
- Exposure to SAP and procurement platforms, or to AI-enabled transformation programs, is an advantage.
- Excellent written and spoken English, executive presentation skills, facilitation capability and commercial judgment.
- A proactive, structured and outcome-oriented leadership style, with resilience to operate in ambiguity and manage competing priorities
- Exposure to process automation, digital tools or technology implementation.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple activities.
Added Advantage
- Experience in Procurement / Supply Chain / Operations.
- Exposure to P2P / S2P / Procurement processes.
- Experience with SAP, Ariba, Ivalua, Power BI, Power Platform, RPA or similar digital tools.
- Experience in process mapping and business requirements gathering.
- PMP / Agile / Scrum certification.

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