Director – Procurement Digital Solutions

Director – Procurement Digital Solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture desired.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate the vision and strategy for the Source to Pay technology solution, including a product roadmap balancing short term and long-term goals, adjusting priorities based on stakeholder needs, market advancements, innovation, and technology capabilities.
• Maintain knowledge of the market to identify opportunities and inform product decisions.
• Drive adoption and optimizing the Source to Pay technology to effectively enable business processes Serve as the central point of contact managing all aspects relating to Application Managed Services (AMS) outsourced to a third-party including incident management, work request management, enhancements, release management, change management, application monitoring, and required testing.
• Work with Finance and Technology teams, to ensure the business roadmap is aligned to the overall Finance Technology roadmap.
• Foster good teamwork between Procurement Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and Technology Partner, ensuring good process design and controls, with focus on ensuring that the technology meets stakeholder needs.
• Lead activities related to release management including overseeing and executing requirements, development/configuration, test, and release process, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality product updates and enhancements.
• Engage stakeholders including those across SSRE, Finance, IT and other teams to gather requirements, prioritize features and ensure alignment.
• Monitor performance metrics to measure product success and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure maintaining the quality and consistency of critical and complete procurement data across the enterprise.
• Ensure the system is audit and SOX compliant.
• Ensure the system supports The Hartford procurement policy.
• Deploy, manage, and enforce standards and rules for system enhancements, working in partnership with Data & Analytics team and the Operations Committee.
• Support developing strategies to effectively process non-addressable spend.
• Partner with the Tax team to integrate a tax solution to support proper Sales & Use tax allocations, as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience managing an outsourced provider with proven track record of success.
• Experience with service-based architecture, event-based architecture, or cloud-based computing/technologies.
• Advanced understanding of capabilities and direction of technology, coupled with an in-depth knowledge of the technology required and the needs of business environments necessary to support assigned projects.
• Experience with implementing cultural change at an organization level.
• Experience and or part of team responsible for Source to pay digital solutions, Coupa or Ariba, is a plus.
• Experience leading strategic initiatives in a highly matrixed environment.