As an Associate Director, you'll lead Procurement Transformation initiatives, support client engagement, mentor teams, and drive operational enhancements for strategic growth.
By joining our rapidly growing Business Transformation practice, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our clients. You’ll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored integrated solutions that solve today's challenges and set the foundation for future success. As an Associate Director, you will be responsible for a mix of client delivery, leading teams, and contributing to business development activities. With support from experienced leaders and a dedicated coach, you will join a collaborative community that invites you to contribute beyond the scope of client delivery.
What You'll Do
- Support the development and implementation of the Procurement Transformation strategy and go-to-market vision, taking ownership of one or more key initiatives to support growth.
- Provide assistance in business development activities, including the creation and delivery of sales materials and proposal responses to clients.
- Provide leadership and oversight to team members in the execution of strategic internal initiatives with the Procurement Transformation team.
- Support a wide range of Business Transformation projects, encompassing system strategy and selection, process improvement, operations performance enhancement, change management, program and project management, data analytics, and business analysis
- Assist organizations in identifying, assessing, and analyzing procurement and finance-related business challenges, spend data, or other areas to enable clients to enhance their operating model and increase impact across procurement, finance and accounting capabilities
- Contribute knowledge and best practices pertaining to other critical business processes such as Source- -to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and Financial Close
- Assess client’s Procurement operations and identify transformative change initiatives through detailed procurement analysis, including but not limited to: supplier spend, vendor master data, category savings identification, buy-pay channels, process & compliance management
- Drive client maturity assessments across procurement capabilities, processes, and general operations
- Lead the execution of procurement cost savings (e.g., RFPs, Negotiations) and other optimization activities
- Develop data-driven business cases for transformational change programs
- Project management: Assess and escalate project issues, risks, or conflicts to leadership, proactively suggesting resolutions to ensure smooth project completion
- Mentor team members through coaching, regular ongoing feedback, annual performance reviews, and actively support project teams in resolving complex issues
What You'll Bring
- 9+ years of experience with additional experience in professional services consulting.
- Knowledge of one or more of the following concepts: Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, Procure to Pay, Accounts Payable, Process Optimization, Change Management, Performance Improvement, Project Management and Agile Methodologies
- Proficiency using the Microsoft Suite, and prior experience using one or more of the following tools: AI prompting through Claude or ChatGPT, Tableau, Alteryx and/or Power BI is preferred
- Understanding of AI concepts within Source to Pay and demonstrated use of tools.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, supply chain or procurement designations or certifications are preferred
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