Corporate Planning & Management, Divisional Leadership, Senior Associate, Dallas Dallas Sen

Corporate Planning & Management, Divisional Leadership, Senior Associate, Dallas or New York  Dallas, Texas, United States

Opportunity Overview  CORPORATE TITLE Senior Associate language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Dallas assignment JOB FUNCTION Business Unit COO  DIVISION Corporate Planning & Management

Chief of Staff to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)

Location: Dallas or New York

About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services across investment banking, securities, investment management, and consumer banking to a large and diversified client base.

Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, sustainability strategy for our operations and supply chain, and governance strategies across the firm. This new role is within our Spend Management & Third Party Risk.

The Procurement organization plays a critical role in managing the firm's global supply chain, driving strategic value, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering innovation across our vendor ecosystem. We are currently undergoing an ambitious transformation program to enhance our capabilities, optimize processes, and leverage cutting-edge technologies to build a resilient, efficient, and sustainable supply chain for the future.

Role

Summary:

The Chief of Staff to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) is a pivotal leadership role, serving as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to the CPO. This individual will be instrumental in driving the CPO's agenda, ensuring the effective execution of strategic priorities, and facilitating the successful delivery of the global procurement transformation program. The Chief of Staff will act as an extension of the CPO, providing critical support in day-to-day operations, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and enhancing the overall efficiency and impact of the Procurement organization.

This role requires a highly organized, analytical, and proactive leader with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of operating at both a strategic and tactical level within a fast‑paced, global environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning & Execution: Partner with the CPO to define, articulate, and drive the strategic vision and priorities for the global Procurement organization, including the ambitious transformation program. This involves facilitating OKR (Objectives and Key Results) alignment across the team and tracking progress on business objectives.
• Operational Excellence & Program Management: Oversee business initiatives ensuring alignment with the CPO's vision and firm‑wide objectives. This includes managing internal cadences, such as weekly reviews and planning sessions, broad internal and external stakeholder communications, and ensuring decisions are actioned promptly. Support the CPO in developing and implementing scalable processes, tools, and frameworks to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the global procurement function.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Serve as a primary liaison and communication conduit for the CPO with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, cross‑functional teams (e.g., Finance, Legal, Engineering, Business Units), and key external partners. Craft presentations, reports, and communications on behalf of the CPO, ensuring clarity, consistency, and impact of messaging.
• Information Synthesis & Decision Support: Gather, analyze, and synthesize complex information from various sources to provide insights, data, and recommendations that support the CPO's decision‑making processes. This includes analyzing key procurement and business metrics.
• Organizational Development & Change Management: Review, design, and execute improvements to the organizational structure and operating model of the global Procurement function. Identify knowledge and skills gaps and help address them, particularly in the context of digital transformation and evolving procurement…