Sr. Manager of Procurement

We seek to move the world forward through innovative thinking. Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional client value. Our team is passionate about their work and committed to building the next generation of industry leaders, and as a certified Great Place to Work ® , Woolpert embraces progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth. 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 — purchase order cycle time, contract compliance rate, cost savings and avoidance, supplier on-time-in-full, and purchase price variance — and holds managers accountable to them.  Develops and maintains a comprehensive and ongoing procurement spend analysis cube, including visibility by vendor, category, business unit, geography, project, contract coverage, savings pipeline, tail spend, and supplier concentration.  Develops a holistic procurement set of Power BI reports and dashboards, with support from the BI and Analytics team, and ensures ongoing maintenance, adoption, and business relevance of procurement reporting. Approves higher-value awards and resolves escalated procurement issues, including budget impact, investigation of supply sources, proposals, and bids.  Directs supplier selection and evaluation based on cost, quality, reliability, and risk, and oversees supplier performance reviews, assessments, and corrective action plans.  Establishes a supplier performance and risk management structure, including supplier segmentation, scorecards, business reviews, issue escalation, corrective action plans, and risk monitoring for critical or high-impact suppliers.  Owns the procurement risk register, including supply disruption, quality, geopolitical, and single-source exposure, and directs mitigation plans.  Evaluates, selects, and leads the rollout of procurement technologies and tools that improve efficiency, spend visibility, and automation.  Establishes and oversees a vendor contract management process and enabling technology, including contract repository governance, renewal tracking, obligation management, commercial term visibility, SLA monitoring, and coordination with Legal, Finance, IT, and business owners.  Manages the consolidated procurement budget for assigned spend areas, tracks expenditures, and implements cost control measures and savings initiatives.  Builds, prioritizes, and reports a procurement savings and value creation pipeline, partnering with Finance to validate realized savings, cost avoidance, risk reduction, and operational value delivered through strategic sourcing initiatives.  Allocates buying capacity, staffing, and resources across teams based on demand, spend, and risk within objectives defined by upper management.  Partners with Finance, Legal, Operations, and project leadership to align procurement plans with business needs and reporting requirements.  Reports procurement performance, savings, and risk position to senior leadership and ensures compliance with internal controls and ethical purchasing standards.  Builds the management bench by developing supervisors and managers and by establishing succession and capability plans for the procurement organization. What You Will Bring: Bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Business Admini