Sr Director, Global Procurement Category Strategy, Portfolio Management & Sourcing Excellence

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Job Description
 

This is a site based role in Foster City, CA at our global headquarters.

Responsibilities include:

Enterprise Category Strategy Excellence

• Strategy Framework

  • Design and implement the enterprise‑wide category strategy methodology, including standards, templates, playbooks, and governance models.

  • Ensure consistent application of:

    • Category profiles and segmentation

    • Strategy development standards

    • Defined approval pathways

    • Execution and monitoring cadences

• Roadmap, Prioritization & Insights

  • Own and manage the Global Category Strategy Roadmap (annual and rolling 3‑year horizon).

  • Develop and maintain category maturity heatmaps and insights.

  • Own tracking and reporting for Strategy completeness, Execution progress and Value delivery

• Strategy Quality & Executive Readiness

  • Facilitate structured review cycles with:

    • Category Leads, Executive Directors and Senior Directors

Sourcing Excellence

• Frameworks, Standards & Tools

  • Define, own, and continuously improve the enterprise sourcing framework, including RFx templates, bid analysis tools, scoring models, and complexity assessment standards.

  • Promote standardization of sourcing practices across all categories and teams.

• Sourcing Governance

  • Ensure sourcing events are executed in line with approved methodologies, roles, and engagement models.

·       Sourcing Operations Strategy & Pipeline Orchestration

• • Collaborate with senior peers to integrate category strategy and sourcing operations.

Third‑Party Sourcing Provider (MSP) Management & Governance

• • Performance & Service Quality

    • Act as the single point of accountability for MSP performance.

    • Establish and manage KPIs, SLAs, scorecards, and quality audits.

  • Operational & Strategic Reviews

    • Lead regular operational and business reviews covering performance, escalations, risks, and improvement actions.

  • Capacity, Compliance & Optimization

    • Ensure MSP resource planning aligns to sourcing demand and complexity.

    • Ensure compliance with sourcing policies, contracting standards, ESG, supplier inclusion, and risk controls.

    • Identify cost optimization, automation, and continuous improvement opportunities aligned to the operating model redesign.

Capability Building & Enablement

• Design and deliver capability uplift programs for category managers and sourcing teams.

• Maintain a centralized resource library including market intelligence tools, templates and playbooks, benchmarks and best practices

Cross‑Functional Leadership & Change Management

• Interface with Legal, Finance, Risk, and Compliance to ensure sourcing events meet enterprise requirements.

• Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working across Procurement and the business.

• Lead change management critical to achieving the transformed operating model.

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