Program Manager Sourcing Category Excellence

This role involves driving projects and communications supporting category leaders to enable transparency and operational excellence throughout the Sourcing process. Exceptional organizational and communication skills are essential to drive our change program.Essential FunctionsMetrics Sourcing Ensure inputs for functional metrics are accurate and timeline to support any executive leadership reviews.  Leverage  analytics and insights to support procurement decision making at a strategic level. Support and enable the development of simplification and process efficiencies to eliminate manual inefficiencies in procurement operations, ensuring that teams focus on high value workMetrics Business Develop and maintain CFO dashboards and coordinate with stakeholders as needed to ensure accuracy and support executive briefingsData Integrity Validate quality of inputs, drive corrective actions, align savings methodology with budget, coordinate approvals, validate process improvements, and handle escalations to the quality board. Proactively identify and mitigate risks, issues, dependencies, and impactsPolicy Exceptions Standardize compliance reporting, organize training or actions for non-compliance, track accountability, and document lessons learned. Ensure adherence to sourcing processes, including regional and global collaboration.Category Maturity Centralize reporting of maturity assessments, track align with regions and team actions, communicate with stakeholders, and support SRM maturity. Coordinate work for geographically distributed teamsCategory Operations Monitor quality of savings reporting, monitor deal compliance, provide feedback, and conduct CPO reviews. Monitor project complexity centrally, provide operational sourcing plans and tools for sub-categories, and guide teams on supplier usage, competition, negotiation, and escalation.Process Improvement Validate and track process improvements, support escalations to the quality board, and ensure alignment with budget and savings methodologies.This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.