Senior Procurement Transformation Manager

Accelerate enterprise procurement performance and adoption as our Senior Procurement Transformation Manager. You will partner with key stake holders, own program governance, project management rigor, and change enablement to drive sustained adoption of new procure-to-pay technologies and standardized ways of working. This role is ideal for a strategic, change-focused leader who excels at driving cross-functional alignment, execution discipline, and lasting transformation in a fast-paced enterprise environment. 

The salary range for this position is $128,000 - $192,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance). 

In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.  

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Own the procurement transformation portfolio, plan timelines, and dependencies. 

• Establish governance forums, decision cadences, and escalating paths. 

• Maintain visibility into risks, issues, and interdependence. 

• Oversee governance, policy, and process standards for all Procurement processes from category strategy, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, risk management, purchase order management. 

• Develop and execute change management strategies for new processes, policies, and tools in partnership with Learning & Development (if enterprise impact). 

• Design communications, training, and stakeholder engagement plans. 

• Measure adoption and adjust approaches to ensure sustainability. 

• Partner with Procurement, Continuous Improvement and Finance to track benefits realization. 

• Ensure consistent measurement and reporting of transformation outcomes. 

• Protect value delivery by identifying risks to adoption or execution. 

• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and improve procurement processes. 

• Capture lessons learned and embed them into future initiatives. 

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement. 

• Enable executives through clear, impactful storytelling within Procurement and beyond. 

• Coordinate stakeholders across IT, Finance, Legal, Operations, and Procurement. 

• Resolve delivery blockers and align priorities across functions. 

• Ensure transformation efforts remain aligned to enterprise objectives. 

Minimum Education and Experience 

Bachelor Degree and 7–10+ years in transformation/PMO, procurement transformation, operations excellence, and change leadership. 

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Proven experience leading multi-workstream programs and driving measurable adoption outcomes. 

• Working knowledge of procurement processes (S2C/S2P) and governance expectations. 

• Strong project/program management discipline (planning, dependency management, RAID). 

• Change management and communications capabilities, training and enablement design. 

• Executive reporting and stakeholder influence experience in a matrixed environment. 

• Strong project/program management discipline (planning, dependency management, RAID). 

Physical Requirements and Environmental Factors 

• Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings. 

• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another. 

• May need to access files, supplies and equipment. 

• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment. 

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