Strategic Sourcing, COE Procurement Project Manager
This role is responsible for building and sustaining sourcing training programs, strengthening sourcing governance practices, and partnering with key stakeholders to optimize Source-to-Pay (STP) systems and processes.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve process consistency, system adoption, compliance, and overall sourcing effectiveness.
Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.Minimum
* Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Management, Technology, Retail, CPG, or similar
* 3+ years of leadership/management experience with large complex organizations
* 3+ years of experience with eSourcing, catalog implementation and management
* Experience developing training materials, standard work, playbooks, process documentation, or capability-building programs
* Ability to define governance standards, monitor compliance, identify process gaps, and partner cross-functionally to implement improvements
* Proven experience with procurement technology, STP platforms, transactional activities and catalog enablement
* Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Vizio)
* Ability to synthesize analysis into compelling oral and written communications and presentations
Desired
* Master's Degree
* 1 year of experience in a data organization, clearly exposed and performing tasks within different data governance aspects
* Indirect Sourcing Training and Development:
* Partner with the Talent and Training COE to design, maintain, and continuously improve training materials, playbooks, job aids, and standard work to support consistent execution of Indirect Sourcing processes
* Collaborate with the Talent and Training COE to develop onboarding and ongoing learning programs for sourcing associates, business partners, and key stakeholders to strengthen sourcing capability and process understanding
* Partner with category leaders and procurement stakeholders to identify knowledge gaps, training needs, and opportunities to improve sourcing effectiveness
* Measure training adoption, effectiveness, and business impact through feedback, process metrics, and stakeholder engagement
* Indirect Sourcing Governance:
* Establish, maintain, and improve governance standards for Indirect Sourcing processes, tools, templates, approval flows, and documentation requirements
* Drive sourcing process compliance by partnering with category management, procurement operations, finance, legal, and business stakeholders
* Monitor sourcing governance performance through reporting, issue tracking, audit readiness, and continuous improvement routines
* Lead governance routines to review process adherence, identify risks or gaps, and recommend actions to improve sourcing consistency and control
* Procurement Technology Management:
* Develop relationships with key stakeholders,...
- Rate: Not Specified
- Location: Cincinnati, US-OH
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Finance
- Recruiter: Kroger Corporate
- Contact: Not Specified
- Email: to view click here
- Reference: 209942
- Posted: 2026-07-21 09:14:00 -
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