Procurement Digital and AI Lead

Procurement Digital and AI Lead

The Procurement Digital and AI Lead is responsible for leading and delivering procurement technology initiatives by planning, managing, and executing the implementation of digital platforms and AI‑enabled solutions across Procurement. The role owns end‑to‑end program delivery, stakeholder alignment, adoption, and value realization for Source‑to‑Pay technologies, including leading the development of business cases for procurement‑specific AI agents. The role can be based in Italy (Badia Polesine), Slovakia (Bratislava) or Germany (Bensheim or Hanau).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to pull together business cases along with a project team for key procurement technology such as Supplier Information Management, Risk Management, Purchase to Pay, etc.
• Provide structured input and recommendations to leadership on proposed technology implementations by providing solution options, enabling informed decision‑making.
• Provide input to the multiyear procurement technology roadmap.
• Layout end‑to‑end project plans for digital and AI procurement initiatives, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria, ensuring clarity on who owns what and by when.
• Define project roles and responsibilities, ensure resources are trained and available, and remove delivery blockers to keep initiatives on track.
• Plan and manage deployment of procurement‑specific Copilot use cases, ensuring tasks, owners, deadlines, and adoption metrics (time saved, usage, quality) are clearly defined and tracked.
• Execute projects rigorously against the agreed plan, escalating issues early, adjusting timelines or scope as needed, and ensuring projects are completed successfully and handed over with clear ownership.
• Work closely with subject‑matter experts and cross‑functional teams to ensure that solutions are implemented consistently and that ownership for post‑go‑live processes is clearly assigned.
• Partner with IT, Finance, Risk/E&C, Supply Chain, Legal and other key stakeholders, to ensure fit‑to‑standard designs are delivered on time and aligned with enterprise architecture and controls.
• Coordinate and drive contract enrichment and standardization initiatives to achieve a robust single repository source of truth, managing execution across systems, data owners, and stakeholders.
• Ability to travel up to 5%.
• Key responsibilities may evolve over time and specific deliverables outside of the scope of the above may be added.

Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business or equivalent level of relevant experience.
• MS/MBA preferred

Certifications/Licensing:

• Lean Six Sigma or equivalent process related methodology preferred
• Project Management certification (PMP, CAPM, etc) preferred
• Change Management experience preferred

Years and Type of Experience:

• 8+ years of procurement / supply chain experience with strong exposure to cutting edge source-to-pay processes and technologies.
• Demonstrated experience driving digital transformation, adoption, analytics and/or automation in an enterprise environment.

Key Required Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities:

• Strong program/project leadership with complex interdependencies; ability to prioritize, anticipate and mitigate risks.
• Procurement platform experience (S2C and/or P2P), analytics/reporting, and workflow design.
• AI enablement capability: identify and deploy Copilot use cases, define success metrics, and develop defensible business cases for AI agents/automation.
• High interpersonal and communication skills; stakeholder management; facilitation and executive-ready storytelling.
• Ability to write SOPs/policies and design governance mechanisms that sustain adoption and compliance.
• Ability to summarize complex data; strong written and verbal English.