Procurement Operations Leader

📋 Description

• Own intake-to-PO model: validation, routing, PO creation, data.
• Ensure requests/POs are complete, policy-aligned, audit-ready.
• Increase first-pass invoice match rates with data quality and exception logic.
• Reduce P2P cycle time via automation, self-service, and queue management.
• Codify approval rules and segregation of duties into Zip, Oracle, and connected systems.
• Expand AI-assisted triage and routing for more volume with less touch.
• Build dashboards and metrics for intake health and cycle time.
• Partner with Legal, Security, TPRM, and Finance Systems to reflect controls.
• Escalate and lead resolution of operational breakdowns to a clean outcome.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in procurement, P2P, or intake-driven ops in fast-scaling environments.
• Strong understanding of upstream intake and metadata quality driving invoice accuracy.
• Passion for transforming messy processes into structured, automated systems.
• Leveraged AI/automation to improve quality, speed, and scale.
• Used data and metrics to spot risk, bottlenecks, and simplification opportunities.
• Strong controls and compliance across Procurement, Legal, and Finance.
• Comfort as a player-coach—designing the operating model while unblocking a PO.
• Cross-functional communication to design workflows that enable speed and protect the business.
• Experience with Zip, Oracle, Jira, Navan, or similar platforms.

🎁 Benefits

• Hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week).
• Relocation assistance for new employees.
• Opportunity to work with AI-assisted workflows and automation to scale procurement.