Global Procurement and Transformation Lead

Summary: The role leads an India-based operational procurement & planning center of excellence (COE) team, responsible for procurement and transformation across manufacturing sites to ensure material availability, strengthen supplier execution, reduce supply risk, improve buy parts inventory and working capital, and standardize scalable end-to-end procurement processes. The role will be partnering with Manufacturing, Planning & other functional partners, while advancing SAP-enabled automation, analytics, AI & exception-based management. The role also owns the global procurement operating engine & its transformation. Strategic Sourcing retains primary ownership of category strategy, RFQs/RFPs, commercial negotiations, supplier selection, contracts, and savings pipeline. This role converts sourcing decisions into reliable operational execution.

Responsibilities:

Global Procurement Operations & Material Availability

• Own and lead global operational procurement processes supporting manufacturing sites and business requirements
• Partner with site procurement and planning teams to ensure materials are available to support production schedules, customer commitments, and business priorities.
• Translate MRP signals and business priorities into timely procurement actions
• Establish consistent processes for shortages, past-due purchase orders, supplier confirmations, expedites, PO pushouts and pull-ins, cancellations, and other material exceptions.
• Proactively identify material risks and drive clear cross-functional escalation and mitigation.

Supplier Performance & Supply Risk:

• Establish supplier performance management covering OTD, confirmations, lead-time adherence, responsiveness, and recovery execution.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing and manufacturing sites to identify supplier capacity constraints, single-source exposure, long lead-time materials, and continuity risks and design corrective-action plans
• Develop forward-looking visibility to supplier risks and ensure timely escalation and mitigation.

Process Transformation, Standardization & Governance:

• Standardize the end-to-end procurement process from demand inputs through PO execution, supplier confirmation, receipt, invoice resolution, and related master data activities
• Develop and deploy global procurement playbooks, standard operating procedures, process controls, role definitions (KPIs) and governance standards.
• Benchmark site performance, share leading practices, and embed continuous improvement

Inventory & Working Capital:

• Balance of material availability and service requirements with inventory and working-capital objectives.
• Improve lead times, MOQ/order multiples, PO processes and other purchasing parameters to reduce excess and obsolete exposure without creating supply risk.
• Establish performance visibility for inventory exposure, supplier commitments, cancellation opportunities, and working-capital actions.

Digital, Analytics, SAP & Master Data:

• Drive workflow automation, RPA, analytics, AI, and exception-based management to improve productivity and decision quality.
• Develop global visibility to shortages, PO & material health, supplier performance and inventory exposure,
• Strengthening SAP procurement and MRP execution and governance of lead time, MOQ, source lists, purchasing records, pricing, and supplier master data.

Controls, Procure-to-Pay & Change Leadership:

• Establish PO compliance, approval, supplier-onboarding, and audit controls, and resolve recurring invoice, receipts, pricing, and GR/IR exceptions
• Support procurement readiness for new-product introductions, engineering changes, transfers, and material transitions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field; Masters preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive procurement, supply-chain, manufacturing-operations, or transformation experience, including global or multi-site leadership.
• Strong direct-material procurement, MRP, material-availability, supplier-performance, inventory, and working-capital experience.
• Proven success standardizing procurement processes and leading change across sites, regions, and matrixed functions.
• Strong hands-on SAP procurement, MRP, purchasing master-data, analytics, and digital-workflow experience.
• Power BI, advanced analytics, automation, or AI-enabled procurement experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage supplier risk, recovery plans, procurement controls, and cross-functional problem solving.

Preferred:

• Experience with a Procurement COE, shared-services, or global delivery model.
• APICS CPIM/CSCP, CPSM/CIPS, or Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Experience in complex global manufacturing, life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, or another regulated industry.