Sr. Manager of Procurement

The posting, as Woolpert wrote it

At Woolpert, you’ll do work that matters.

As a leading global architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm, we help clients solve complex challenges that shape communities, strengthen critical infrastructure, advance technology, and improve the world around us. Here, you’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle meaningful projects, and build a career defined by growth, opportunity, and impact.

Position Overview

Woolpert is hiring a Sr. Manager, Procurement to join our dynamic Finance team. This position will be responsible for managing strategic procurement transformation and category management activities to help build a scalable, data-driven, and world-class procurement organization. Leading the development and implementation of the future-state procurement operating model, including current-state assessment and maturity, future-state organization design,
processes, technology, policies and procedures, governance, and KPIs. Owning strategic sourcing, category strategy, supplier performance and risk management, vendor contract management, spend analytics, and procurement reporting, while partnering with Finance, Legal, Operations, IT, BI and Analytics, and business leaders to deliver measurable value, improve supplier outcomes, increase spend visibility, and strengthen procurement decision-making. Developing and maintaining a comprehensive spend analysis capability and holistic procurement dashboards, ensuring ongoing insight into savings, supplier performance, contract coverage, risk, and strategic sourcing opportunities. Providing leadership and influence across the organization while distinguishing strategic procurement responsibilities from tactical requisition, purchase order, and invoice review activities managed through operational procurement processes.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

What You Will Do

• Manage procurement managers and/or supervisors across multiple spend areas, sites, or business units, including hiring terminating, performance appraisals, and pay reviews.
• Directs the development and implementation of procurement strategies aligned with organizational goals for cost optimization and supply chain reliability.
• Supports the development and implementation of the future-state procurement operating model, including current-state procurement assessment and maturity, future-state organization design, processes, enabling technology, policies and procedures, governance model, and procurement KPIs.
• Develops category strategies and multi-year sourcing roadmaps across major spend areas, using spend, risk, complexity, supplier market dynamics, and business impact to prioritize strategic sourcing activity.
• Standardizes the procure-to-pay process, approval workflow, and application of procurement policy and delegation-of-authority thresholds across teams.
• Establishes and owns procurement KPIs

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• Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!

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Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Pay Range
$139,200 — $208,800 USD

Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement .

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