Director, Procurement Excellence & Strategic Initiatives

Role: Director of Procurement Excellence & Strategic Initiatives, tasked with establishing and leading an AI-native Change Management Center of Excellence (CM CoE) within global procurement. Objectives include accelerating awareness, engagement, and adoption of strategic procurement initiatives, and translating vision into actionable change strategies. Responsibilities encompass designing the CoE, creating governance, overseeing change initiatives, facilitating leadership alignment, and promoting stakeholder engagement. The role also involves managing portfolio-level governance, reporting KPIs, and mitigating risks across initiatives. Qualifications: bachelor's degree in business, organizational development, or related field; 10+ years in change management, organizational transformation, or strategic communications; 5+ years in leadership roles, with experience building governance capabilities from scratch. Skills include executive partnership, facilitation of leadership summits, governance framework development, and applying AI tools like Claude for communications. HighValue: focus on global procurement strategy, organizational change, governance, portfolio management, and AI application in biopharma context. Work setup is hybrid based in Princeton, NJ, with potential for remote work.