Director IT Procurement Strategy & Enablement - Hybrid (Houston TX)

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Job Description

The Director of IT Procurement, Strategy & Enablement is responsible for defining and enabling the global IT procurement strategy, governance framework, and enterprise capabilities that ensure consistent, compliant, and value-driven procurement across the organization.

This role focuses on strategy, policy, operating model design, supplier strategy, tools, analytics, and organizational enablement, and partners closely with the Director of Procurement Operations & Delivery, who owns day-to-day execution. Together, these roles ensure procurement operates as a scalable, strategic enterprise capability rather than a transactional function.

Key Responsibilities:

Procurement Strategy & Leadership

• Develop, maintain, and evolve the global IT procurement strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Define strategic objectives for cost optimization, supplier rationalization, risk reduction, and procurement maturity.
• Translate strategy into clear initiatives, priorities, and success metrics.
• Partner with Global Sourcing & Procurement function.
• Works closely with IT Director – Procurement Operations and Delivery.
• Oversees US IT Procurement staff.

Governance, Policy & Decision Frameworks

• Document IT procurement decision rights, escalation paths, and approval thresholds.
• Ensure audit-ready compliance with legal, regulatory, cybersecurity, and data privacy requirements.
• Complete process definition that drives consistency, produces repeatable results, and ensures accuracy of data for IT contract management.
• Provides overall leadership of IT Procurement directives, standards, toolsets, and processes.
• Partners with IT Procurement Director – Operations and Delivery – to provide mentoring, improve staff performance, and support consistency of global operations.

Strategic Supplier Enablement

• Lead strategic supplier strategy and support executive-level vendor relationships.
• Establish supplier governance models and KPI-driven performance scorecards.
• Drive vendor rationalization and long-term alignment with enterprise strategies.

Tools, Analytics Process Enablement

• Own the procurement enablement ecosystem including intake workflows, request management, contract lifecycle management, procurement data integrity, analytics, and reporting platforms.
• Define and maintain global IT procurement KPIs, dashboards, and executive reporting.
• Drive automation, AI, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Operating Model & Organizational Enablement

• Design and maintain the global IT procurement operating model, including role clarity and RACI.
• Partner with IT executive leadership to ensure strategy-to-execution alignment.
• Support workforce planning, capability maturity, and skills development.

Executive & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Serve as a strategic procurement partner to IT groups, Finance, Legal, Security, and Enterprise Architecture.
• Role is tightly partnered with IT Asset Management function and technical IT teams.
• Prepare executive-level materials and decision briefings.
• Represent IT procurement strategy in IT governance forums.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Information Technology, or related field plus at least 12 years of progressive experience in enterprise procurement or sourcing or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• At least 4 years of leadership experience
• Experience defining procurement strategy, governance frameworks, and operating mod