Sr. Manager, Procurement Excellence

Sr. Manager, Procurement Excellence

The Manager of Procurement Excellence plays a critical influencing role, acting as a change agent in bringing about improvements to end-to-end processes. These processes include but may not be limited to procurement intake, source to contract, purchase to pay and supplier relationship management.

Develop and implement strategies to drive procurement operations transformation. Responsible for driving procurement excellence and elevating the function's value proposition. Oversee the procurement systems roadmap, administration coordination, automation opportunities, integrations, and user adoption strategies.

The role involves focusing on areas, including:

• Policy and process improvement (simplification, standardization, scaling)
• Digital transformation, system design and administration
• Performance measurement
• Cross-functional operating models
• Governance and compliance
• Oversight of buyer activities
• Quality assurance & data integrity/reliability
• Template creation & management (RFx, SRM, Project Mgmt., Value Tracking)
• Organizational Procurement reporting (spend, contracts, KPI/performance)

This role's focus reaches into operational scalability, workflow governance, and overall enterprise process optimization.

Capability improvement strategy: Developing and documenting plans to improve procurement capabilities, processes, systems, and policies to enable procurement delivery and governance.

Integration strategy and execution: Identifying and executing on strategies targeting enterprise procurement digital and process capability improvement and performance efficiency.

Leadership: Dotted and/or solid-line leadership and people enablement. Cross-functional enablement that shapes/influences operating models.

Business management and coordination: Leading cross-functional initiatives and developing business partnerships with key governance and process areas.

Essential competences:

• Business case development: Obtains support for ideas by creating detailed and workable processes, policy and/or technology proposals; considering the strategic, commercial, financial, and business management implications.
• Managing and promoting change: Is agile and resilient in the face of organizational change. Seeks, analyzes and supports opportunities to drive change, as well as add value to the business and its customers.
• Procurement process and policy management: Applies, embeds and develops processes designed to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Project management: Approaches the completion of assignments with focus and initiative, applying relevant methods to see projects successfully through to completion.
• Problem solving and decision making: Thinks through problems holistically, constructively, and takes action to devise solutions.
• Strategy development: Creates, documents, and delivers structured and compelling procurement process strategies based on data-driven insights, stakeholder needs/feedback, and business objectives.
• Technologically savvy: Well-informed of the latest technology trends, and understands the value, impacts, and risks they present to procurement and to the company.

Verra Mobility Values An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:

• Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What's Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.

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Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.