EY · 19 hours ago
Global Procurement Digital Solutions and Strategy Lead, Associate Director
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$130K/yr - $251K/yr
12+ years expEY is a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams dedicated to building a better working world. The Global Procurement Digital Solutions and Strategy Lead will own the digital vision and roadmap for Global Procurement, focusing on AI-enabled capabilities and driving significant synergies and value creation across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Own the digital transformation strategy and multiyear roadmap for Global Procurement, ensuring clear value, prioritisation and measurable outcomes
Act as functional product owner for End to End procurement transformation, defining scope, shaping business requirements, signing off on design, and ensuring smooth transition to BAU
Lead the design, pilot and scaleup of AIenabled capabilities (Autonomous Sourcing Agent, RFx CoPilot, Smart Landing Page / Faster Buying Channels)
Oversee solution validation and UAT, confirming features meet functional needs and deliver the intended business value
Partner with Technology to drive programme delivery, managing dependencies, risks, sequencing, benefits, and cross functional alignment
Strengthen data, analytics and governance working with the reporting team, improving spend, supplier, and contract data quality, and enabling better insights and decision making
Embed risk, controls, compliance and resilience into digital workflows, ensuring auditability, supplier risk integration, and alignment to policies and ISQM requirements
Integrate sustainability and ESG into sourcing and supplier lifecycle processes
Lead operational tool/platform enablement including workflow modernisation, tool governance, and process design across regions
Produce strategic executive level communications
Drive change leadership and global adoption, ensuring readiness, communications, training and behaviour change across functions and geographies
Influence senior stakeholders across Technology, Risk, Legal, and Category teams to align decisions and accelerate enterprisewide adoption
Qualification
Required
12+ years in Procurement / SC&O (Supply Chain & Operations), with 5+ years leading digital procurement transformation in a complex, global enterprise
Deep platform experience (e.g., SAP Ariba / Coupa / Ivalua), CLM (e.g., Docusign / others), and data/BI (Power BI, Tableau)
Demonstrable experience taking AI enabled procurement solutions from concept → pilot → scale (e.g., agentic AI, RFx / RFp copilots, analytics, CLM, guided buying etc
Ownership of business requirements, UAT and benefit realization for multiregion programs; strong product mindset and PMO fluency
Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication and change leadership
Proven and extensive experience managing and leading global teams
Be highly analytical
Be laser focused on data accuracy
Be future driven, i.e. be prepared to question how things are done today, versus how they could be done in the future
Be ambitious and curious
Willingness to travel domestically or internationally for supplier and stakeholder related meetings
Preferred
Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills in business English
Experience with a global, culturally diverse organization
Experience working collaboratively, virtually and independently
Benefits
Medical and dental coverage
Pension and 401(k) plans
A wide range of paid time off options
Flexible vacation policy
Designated EY Paid Holidays
Winter/Summer breaks
Personal/Family Care
Other leaves of absence
Company
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society, the planet, while building trust in the capital markets.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jonathan Williamson
Chief Operating Officer
Abhishek Sen
Partner
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2026-01-16
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