Sr Mgr. Strategic Sourcing- Data & Analytics and Procurement Systems

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Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Data & Analytics and Procurement Systems will lead the team responsible for procurement data, reporting, systems enablement, process improvement, and special projects across the Sourcing & Procurement organization. This role will ensure that Procurement leadership and Category Managers have reliable data, effective tools, actionable insights, and disciplined processes to manage performance, improve operations, and make informed commercial decisions.

The Senior manager will lead a team that supports procurement workflow orchestration, spend analytics, reporting, KPI management, systems improvements, and cross-functional initiatives. The role will partner closely with Category Managers, Finance, Accounts Payable, Technology, and other business functions to improve visibility and execution across the procurement lifecycle. The successful candidate will combine people leadership, procurement operations knowledge, analytical capability, systems thinking, and strong project management skills.

A significant responsibility of this role will be to establish and operate a reliable savings governance process. Working with Category Managers and Finance, the manager will define how Procurement savings are calculated, documented, validated, approved, tracked, and reported. The process will distinguish between P&L savings and contractual savings or cost avoidance and will provide leadership with a clear view of expected, validated, realized, and at-risk value.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Operating Model
• Lead, coach, and develop the Data & Analytics and Procurement Systems team, including the Senior Systems Analyst and Senior Data & Analytics Analyst.
• Set priorities, establish clear ownership, manage capacity, and ensure work is delivered accurately and on time across reporting, systems, analytics, and special projects.
• Create a service-oriented operating model with defined intake, prioritization, delivery, communication, quality, and escalation practices.
• Build strong relationships with Procurement leadership, Category Managers, Finance, Accounts Payable, Technology, and other stakeholders to understand needs and deliver practical solutions.
• Develop the team's capabilities in procurement operations, data analysis, systems management, project delivery, process improvement, and stakeholder communication.

Procurement Systems and Technology Enablement
• Ensure procurement systems support the organization's category management model, intake processes, sourcing activities, contract and renewal visibility, savings tracking, and operational reporting needs.
• Partner with system owners and Technology to define requirements, evaluate solutions, manage testing and UAT, and implement changes with appropriate controls and adoption support.
• Establish system governance practices that promote data quality, clear ownership, consistent configuration, controlled changes, and reliable integrations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, digitize, and automate manual procurement activities and prioritize improvements based on value, feasibility, risk, and user impact.

Data, Analytics, and Executive Reporting
• Oversee the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Procurement dashboards, scorecards, KPI definitions, and executive reporting packages.
• Ensure leadership and Category Managers have timely, accurate, and actionable insight into spend, sourcing activity, savings, cycle time, adoption, workload, risk, supplier performance, and other measures of Procurement performance.
• Establish data processes and governance that enable consistent collection, validation, reconciliation, and consumption of procurement data across systems and functions.
• Translate analysis into clear recommendations that support prioritization, resource allocation, category strategy, process improvement, and leadership decision-making.
• Partner with Finance, Accounts Payable, Technology, and other functions to obtain, reconcile, and improve access to relevant data sources.

Savings Governance and Value Tracking
• Design and implement a standardized process for calculating, documenting, tracking, validating, and reporting Procurement savings and cost avoidance.
• Partner with Category Managers to review savings methodologies, assumptions, baselines, timing, addressable spend, and supporting documentation for sourcing and procurement initiatives.
• Partner with Finance to distinguish and reconcile P&L savings from contractual savings, cost avoidance, and other forms of value creation and to establish an appropriate validation and sign-off process.
• Maintain a centralized savings tracker and reporting process that shows pipeline, estimated value, validated value, realized value, timing, risks, and variances against target.
• Provide regular savings and value reporting to Procurement leadership and support reviews with Finance and other senior stakeholders.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in savings reporting and drive corrective action to improve credibility, transparency, and auditability.

Special Projects, Compliance, and Process Improvement
• Lead and support special projects across Procurement Operations, including initiatives related to compliance, Accounts Payable, procurement controls, policy implementation, process redesign, system changes, and operational transformation.
• Develop project charters, plans, milestones, risks, decisions, communications, and success measures for cross-functional initiatives.
• Partner with Accounts Payable on invoice, vendor, payment, and procure-to-pay projects that improve accuracy, timeliness, controls, and the stakeholder experience.
• Support compliance monitoring and reporting, including identifying process deviations, control gaps, unauthorized activity, missing approvals, and other risks requiring management attention.
• Use root-cause analysis, process mapping, stakeholder feedback, and performance data to improve Procurement processes and reduce cycle time, rework, and manual effort.
• Ensure changes are documented, communicated, adopted, and measured after implementation.

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Experience in Procurement, Procurement Operations, Sourcing, Finance, Business Intelligence, Procurement Systems, or a related function, with experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or leading analysts or operations professionals.
• Demonstrated experience developing procurement reporting, KPI frameworks, dashboards, data processes, or operational performance management routines.
• Experience working with Finance to calculate, validate, reconcile, and report savings, cost avoidance, or other business value metrics.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, including sourcing, contracting, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoicing, Accounts Payable, and savings management.
• Strong project management, process improvement, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex operational, financial, systems, and data issues into clear decisions and practical actions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience with Power BI, SQL, workflow tools, spend analytics tools, ERP systems, or related technologies.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience leading Procurement Operations, Procurement Center of Excellence, or procurement transformation teams in a global organization.
• Experience with procurement workflow orchestration, spend analytics, ERP, AP automation, contract lifecycle management, or supplier management platforms.
• Experience implementing savings governance, P&L savings validation, cost avoidance tracking, or Finance partnership models.
• Experience supporting compliance, SOX, procurement controls, audit remediation, or policy implementation initiatives.

Company Overview:

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.

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