Executive Director, Digital Strategy and Global Process Owner; GPO Lead

Position: Executive Director, Digital Strategy and Global Process Owner (GPO) Lead
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The Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Executive Director, Digital Strategy & GPO is responsible for developing and overseeing the Partner-to-Pay Digital and Analytics strategy and multi-year roadmap for SS&P in close collaboration with SS&P Senior Leadership Team as well as IT and BI&A executives. This role is responsible for collaborating across several key SS&P leaders to gather requirements for Digital and Analytics within each process/capability area and translate requirements into an end-to-end strategy for Procurement.

This role is also responsible for being a thought leader in the digital procurement space, connecting with ecosystem partners and bringing outside-in leading practice thinking to elevate SS&P digital strategy while ensuring contribution to improving impact and business results and performance. The digital strategy lead will drive the continuous evolution of the Intelligent Procurement digital strategy and roadmap across the 4 key dimensions of the digital procurement architecture;

1. User experience, 2. Technology applications by capability, 3. Insights and intelligence, and 4. Data infrastructure and governance.

This role is also responsible for designing global business processes that align with the SS&P organization's overall strategy and objectives. Establish standardized processes and procedures to ensure consistency and efficiency across different regions and business functions. Develop and implement governance frameworks, continuously assess and improve global business processes to drive operational excellence and collaborate with key stakeholders, including business leaders, process owners, and subject matter experts, collaborate with teams to integrate global processes with other functions, systems, and technologies.

Identify dependencies to optimize processes and enhance organizational effectiveness.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

* Develop and Oversee the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Partner-to-Pay Digital & Analytics Strategy ("Intelligent Procurement") in collaboration with functional leadership

* Oversee digital and analytics roadmap development for the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Organization

* Collaborate with SS&P Senior Leadership and various stakeholders across Procurement including process owners and category leads to collect requirements and define roadmap

* Collaborate with cross-functional leadership within IT and BI&A to build and enable roadmap

* Identify, test, and deploy best-in-class digital tools and methodologies for partner-to-pay organization

* Develop business case scenarios to support recommendations and prioritize initiatives

* Partner with counterparts to influence training and drive adoption of new and existing technologies

* Continuously improve digital & analytics strategies by leveraging best practices

* Manage interconnection between data, analytics, process and technology to enable Digital roadmap

* Develop and Manage Digital Governance for the Procurement function

* Develop and continuously improve governance process for the collection, prioritization and development of various digital use cases across Procurement

* Coordinate with SS&P Strategy & Performance lead to prioritize funding for digital / technology programs based on Intelligent…