# Assistant Vice President, Procurement Transformation

**Company**: Unilever
**Location**: Remote Nationwide
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an Assistant Vice President, Procurement Transformation to lead the transformation of our procurement function across sourcing, contracting, and supplier management.

The successful candidate will establish a coherent, multi-year roadmap across technology, process, data, analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, controls, and organisational capability.

Key Responsibilities:

## Architect the Procurement Operating Model

Serve as the executive responsible for the design, performance, and continuous evolution of the Procurement operating model. Translate enterprise strategy and Procurement priorities into an integrated roadmap across organisation, process, technology, data, analytics, governance, and capability. Define how work is requested, prioritised, routed, executed, approved, measured, and improved across the Procurement lifecycle.

## Own the Procurement Technology Portfolio

Own the strategy, roadmap, governance, investment prioritisation, adoption, and value realisation of the Procurement technology portfolio. Establish a coherent platform architecture spanning intake and orchestration, sourcing, contracting, contract lifecycle management, supplier management, spend and performance analytics, risk integration, market intelligence, workflow automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.

## Lead Enterprise Procurement Process Ownership

Serve as the enterprise owner of Procurement's core process architecture, standards, methodologies, and controls, excluding Requisition-to-Pay processes owned by Accounts Payable. Own end-to-end process design across intake, demand shaping, category planning, sourcing, due diligence coordination, contracting workflows, supplier onboarding, segmentation, supplier governance, performance management, issue escalation, renewal planning, and supplier exit.

## Build an Insight-Led Procurement Function

Lead the Procurement analytics and insights organisation, converting spend, contract, supplier, pipeline, performance, savings, risk, workflow, and market data into decision advantage. Establish a Procurement data and analytics strategy aligned with enterprise data governance and Finance requirements.

## Lead Procurement M&A Diligence and Integration Enablement

Lead Procurement's enterprise capability for merger, acquisition, divestiture, and integration activity. Partner with Corporate Development, Integration Management, Finance, Legal, Technology, Risk, business leadership, and acquired entities to assess third-party implications.

## Govern the Procurement Transformation Portfolio

Own the integrated Procurement transformation roadmap and portfolio governance model. Partner with accountable business owners to define outcomes, scope, dependencies, resources, milestones, risks, and decisions for major initiatives.

## Build a High-Performance Procurement Centre of Excellence

Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary organisation spanning Procurement technology, process excellence, analytics and insights, M&A enablement, transformation, governance, and change. Establish high standards for strategic thinking, product ownership, process design, analytical rigour, delivery discipline, executive communication, user experience, and measurable impact.

## Skills

### Required
- Procurement Transformation
- Strategic Planning
- Change Management
- Process Design
- Analytics and Insights
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Integration Enablement
- Governance
- Portfolio Management
- Leadership

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