Head of Procurement

About Us:

Our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers. Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers. A highly decorated industry leader, Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers. Learn more at Sitecore.com.

Sitecore’s foundation is our diverse group of passionate, smart, innovative, and collaborative individuals located across four continents and over 25 countries. Having a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and skills is what makes us the company we are today. The Sitecore values are what drive and unite us across the globe.

About the Role:

You will lead Sitecore’s Global Procurement organization. You’ll be responsible for the continued strategic and operational development of Sitecore’s worldwide corporate procurement processes, refining the purchasing systems and managing the global team to execute our vision. As a global player/coach, you’ll be flexing between setting the strategic direction to collaborating with Sitecorians on their systems, services, and equipment needs, from project kick-off through vendor analysis and business case approvals. Reporting to the CFO, you’ll have the executive backing to influence how the company operates while streamlining our systems, improving our productivity, and delivering bottom-line results.

What You’ll Do:

• Oversee and further develop the worldwide procurement polices & processes.
• Further improve the processes we’ll use to evaluate and rate potential vendors.
• Refine our current purchasing systems as needed, identify and implement any additional systems needed to achieve this vision.
• Streamline the decision making, forms, and processes for selecting and approving new vendors.
• Identify the roles needed to achieve the department’s objectives and recruit, onboard, and manage these team members.
• Establish metrics to measure the performance and success of the organization, from supplier performance and quality to team member.
• Working closely with your legal partner, to ensure compliance with global and local legal requirements.
• Further develop and complete the global vendor contract database that tracks all contracts, including all key metadata, such as terms, notice dates, rate increase caps, etc.

What You Need to Succeed

• Proven Leader at Scale- Your credentials speak for themselves; you have experience working at a global scale at a hyper-growth business that’s looking to scale to a billion and beyond; and you have the expertise on best practices in your field.
• Strategic focus– You have the ability to analyze, formulate, and implement procurement strategies to significantly increase productivity and reduce costs for a global business.
• Tech Experience Preferred- Knowledge working in the spend categories spanning a cloud business, including IT, sales, marketing, engineering, finance, and professional services.
• Digital Transformation Driver -Anticipate market changes to drive industry-relevant solutions to customers, building trust with stakeholders and translating solutions into business impact and outcomes that accelerate our digital transformation.
• Deal Orchestrator –Leads teams to maximize business and cost-side opportunities. Proven and observed cross-functional team facilitation experience. Lead and drive the sourcing cycle leveraging learnings and expertise to accelerate and win deals. Understand key contract terms and conditions, and how to astutely negotiate terms.

Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:

• Robust Project ManagementSkills – You know how to exceed the schedule and scope expectations of Sitecore’s stakeholders.
• Data Driven Decision Making -Ability to confidently make recommendations to executive, business decision makers based on objective data.
• Bias for Speed and Action– We’re here to win and doing that takes Olympic caliber talent that can make decisions and are here to make an impact.
• Ability to roll up your sleeves and get things done.

After an offer is made and accepted, E-verify will be utilized to establish your identity and employment eligibility as required by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.

At Sitecore, we put a lot of care and time into who we hire. We believe that in order to build the best products, we need to build high-impact teams. Our recruitment process centers around what we call the Life Story interview, a conversational-style interview where we get to learn more about you.